Example sentences of "but be [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I say ‘ myths ’ it should now be clear that I am not using the term ‘ myth ’ in any pejorative sense but am referring to the cultural assumptions existing in the world of work . |
| 2 | The electrons in a free-electron laser are not free , but are coupled to the magnetic field . |
| 3 | In this climate , the academic in English and other subjects in the humanities , who is busy , who publishes a lot , who goes to conferences , can not but be preferred to the quiet scholar , who keeps a low profile , even seems rather idle , but is taking his time over a major piece of scholarly writing that may involve many years ' work and which he does not intend to give to the world until he is ready . |
| 4 | As we have seen , the SAS came under the orders of the Commander-in-Chief , but were attached to the Eighth Army for immediate operational control . |
| 5 | This is not a depressive or suicidal phenomenon but is related to the particular effect of the dissociative state upon the mind : ‘ If you have a full-blown experience of K , you can never believe there is death , or that death can possibly influence who you are . ’ |
| 6 | In the Severn Estuary , N. lapillus reaches Sand Point above western-super-Mare ( Boyden et al. , 1977 ) but is confined to the lower shore up channel from Minehead , a distribution pattern that may reduce its exposure to water of reduced salinity . |
| 7 | It is possible that EGF is not produced in the oesophagus but is transported to the oesophageal mucosa by the blood stream , being released from the platelets and then transported into capillary endothelium . |
| 8 | I wanted to go home , but was led to the antenatal ward instead . |
| 9 | The motivation was not , however , the difficulty of financing his wars or some other shortage of resources , but was related to the continuing importation of French and Flemish gold coins into England . |
| 10 | So the budget fixed for the current year was £20 million and the £7 million underspent in the first two years of the scheme did not go back to the Treasury — it was not lost to computerisation — but was committed to the further development of GP computerisation . |
| 11 | It collapsed in 1902 but was rebuilt to the same design . |