Example sentences of "but [adv] [art] [noun sg] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually he said , ‘ OK , we 'll call Number 10 tomorrow … . ’ but mercifully the idea was abandoned and we were spared . |
| 2 | ‘ It was a bloody business but eventually a breach was forced in the defences and Bartholomew led us through . ’ |
| 3 | It rang for a long time , and he thought he was going to be out of luck , but eventually the receiver was picked up the other end . |
| 4 | Ashby was keen because of the sparking relationship that existed between Nicholson and Michelle — but eventually the script was put on the back burner . |
| 5 | But remarkably no mention is made of welfare agencies , public enterprises or planning bodies , all of which are major additions in the extended welfare state . |
| 6 | Visitors animate the street and are catered for , but only the quietness is disturbed and the village remains unspoiled . |
| 7 | At first the hotel was encumbered with the inevitable stone bankers but soon the ground was laid out with a delightful garden ‘ where a respectable band of musicians , formed in this place , meet every Tuesday and Friday evening ’ . |
| 8 | The snow-plough has not yet been round , but already the street is trampled by the men going to work . |
| 9 | Sometimes the plug is easily visible but normally a probe is used to detect its presence in the vagina . |
| 10 | The room should only hold ten people , but somehow a space is found for Michael . |
| 11 | We used to be good enemies , that great prince and I , but somehow the enmity 's grown cool of late . |
| 12 | The term ‘ merchant adventurer ’ was originally applied to any merchant trading in cloth overseas ; there were groups of them from various towns including Newcastle and York , and others were drawn from several of the London companies , but gradually the term was limited to a group within the Mercers . |
| 13 | But gradually the blood is drawn back into the body and the veins harden into rigid struts that will give the wing its strength . |
| 14 | But gradually the pattern was resolved . |
| 15 | When Paul called me back to ask whether he was serious about this , I replied , yes , although I must admit I did n't hear strings and flutes on ‘ Space Oddity ’ at the beginning but once the track was done , it was obvious that it was going to work really well . |
| 16 | I do not know if the vicar was believed or not , but thereafter the bridge was known as Devil 's Bridge . |
| 17 | In 1987 , Denmark proposed even more favourable terms to the UK , but still no agreement was reached . |
| 18 | It is true that local authorities do not achieve uniformity of provision , but usually an attempt is made to match resources to need . |
| 19 | You can use either method to kill rogue tasks but usually the system is left in an unstable state so save files and close all other applications before restarting . |
| 20 | The models and types may vary , but usually the guest is given one key to the box for which a signature is requested , and the particulars are recorded in a key receipt book . |
| 21 | This starts out as sensible cost-saving and value.engineering but imperceptibly the boundary is crossed arid we enter the realm of skimping . |
| 22 | Trying to present that impossible chimera , ‘ a balanced view ’ , the series in fact reflected the existing power relations in the industry by showing predominantly White , Western , heterosexual films , but clearly an effort was made to complete the picture with some lesbian films and with work ( especially documentaries and shorts ) from outside the familiar Eurocentric tradition . |
| 23 | But later the story was found to be bollocks . |
| 24 | But later the story was found to be bollocks . |
| 25 | Perhaps a more apt title would be the Demolition Years , as not only whole industries , jobs and homes were destroyed , but also an attempt was made to change our whole way of life . |
| 26 | All nurseries keep records of work with parents but often the information is lost in daily dairies and in files including a lot of other information . |
| 27 | The current dominance of Apple will certainly be broken , according to Dataquest 60% of the market will be PC based , but interestingly the company is predicted to retain 27% , the largest slice for any single vendor . |
| 28 | People have written hundreds of books about dogs , but now a dog 's written a book about people . |
| 29 | That was a time for rejoicing and oaths of loyalty ; but now every man was called on to help decide the future of the clan . |
| 30 | But now the cigar was lit and , turning to Jed , Sir Charles spoke through billowing smoke . |