Example sentences of "be [vb pp] but [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But your Major alas … ’ ‘ … while we look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen : for the things which are seen are temporal ; but the things which are not seen are eternal … ’ |
| 2 | Juvenile Court proceedings can be reported but under no circumstances may any child involved in the proceedings be identified . |
| 3 | Even when subjects are selected for experiment not on the basis of extreme scores in the attribute being studied but on the scores of some correlated attribute , the same problem can arise . |
| 4 | The identity of the person who abandoned the Zodiac dinghy and therefore presumably planted the bombs has never been discovered but from the descriptions it seems fairly certain it was Bartelo from the Ouvéa , while the man who helped him get the dinghy into the water was Mafart . |
| 5 | This is because it does not depend on the source from which the language as an object is drawn but on the learners ' engagement with it . |