Example sentences of "but be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I attempt champagne again but am given but cursory attention from director . |
| 2 | I ask the steward ( who I notice has the words ‘ Love ’ and ‘ Hate ’ tattooed across the fingers of each hand ) for a glass , but am told , ‘ We do n't give out anything sharp here ’ . |
| 3 | I am delighted to participate in today 's debate on nuclear weapons policy , but am saddened to see that the so-called ’ party of defence ’ , the party of government , can muster only one noble Member to speak . |
| 4 | ‘ I attempt Tube but am driven out again by gang of pubescent boys who want me to write my name on various bits of their exposed torsos . |
| 5 | He had proposed to six other nurses , but been rejected . |
| 6 | Mr Gandhi may not have been personally involved in the Bofors contract , but his government 's clumsy efforts to keep the case under wraps have smacked of guilt , and the Prime Minister 's ‘ Mr Clean ’ image of five years ago has all but been destroyed by the scandal . |
| 7 | There had been a tremendous hash made of one contract by her predecessor , it was true , but that had all but been completed when it had landed on her desk , so there was no way she could be held to account for it . |
| 8 | They had arranged a tenant but been let down , and Signor Fixit had promised to go and sit in their villa , having let his own house . |
| 9 | How Brampton and Vechey had probably not committed suicide but been murdered and that Allingham 's supposed death from natural causes was probably the murderer striking again . |
| 10 | ‘ Would have been finer still had the invalids but been allowed to stay in it . |
| 11 | It is as though she had not died but been transformed . |
| 12 | By the end of the month the Republican challenge to President George Bush by right-wing journalist Patrick Buchanan had all but been neutralized , while the campaign of former Ku Klux Klansman David Duke had failed to make any significant impact . |
| 13 | The staircase had all but been buried under the collapsing wall . |
| 14 | The servants say the doctor 's been three times but been forced to leave again without seeing him . |
| 15 | These usually share space with the pavement , but are delineated by different coloured or textured surfacing . |
| 16 | The news categories used by the 1947 Press Commission , which were followed for the 1975 analysis , were too general to show up many differences of detail , but are recorded in Table 6.6 . |
| 17 | However , these ‘ schemes of experience ’ are not invented ex nihilo but are disseminated through the commonsense knowledge shared by members of the life-world , so that members come to learn the relevant typifications and their meaning ( see Natanson 1970 ; for an application of these ideas see Brewer 1984a , b , 1988b ) . |
| 18 | Here we are told for the first time such details as that the Moreens are American , that they require a resident tutor for their sickly child , and that Pemberton is looking for the tutor 's job ; or rather , we are not told , but are led to infer these facts , for James avoids a direct statement of them . |
| 19 | They are not corridors , as , of course , the exigencies of local traffic scarcely render that sort of coach desirable , but are built specially for the service between Watford and Euston , and Watford and Broad Street . |
| 20 | These are identical to our bungalows Reference 3E but are built as part of a two storey development . |
| 21 | These are identical to our bungalows Reference 1E , but are built as part of a two storey development . |
| 22 | These are identical to our bungalows Reference 4E but are built as part of a two storey development . |
| 23 | Clearly memories are not formed instantaneously , as if by throwing a switch , but are built up over a period of hours after the event to be memorized has occurred ; during this build-up the form in which any memory is stored changes . |
| 24 | This is necessary because many overhead costs are not included in work in progress but are written off against current profits each year ( see Chapter 11 ) . |
| 25 | They are not combined together in a single trial but are regulated by an order of Steyn J. on 31 July 1991 : |
| 26 | The recognition that ideas are not the pure result of cognition but are affected by the human context of cognition , can be traced back through philosophy — Larrain goes back to the fifteenth century to Machiavelli ( Larrain 1979 : 17 ) . |
| 27 | They are scholars , mystics and sorcerers without peer , but are affected by a languor that means they rarely bestir themselves except for the most pressing and dire of circumstances . |
| 28 | Most of these homelands are not even single stretches of territory , but are formed from a series of pockets of land interspersed among white areas . |
| 29 | For this species , our data refute the hypothesis that female ornaments are functionless but are expressed merely as a result of a genetic correlation between the sexes . |
| 30 | The stools are normal in consistency and appearance but are deposited randomly . |