Example sentences of "but it [be] [vb pp] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In The Old Curiosity Shop it is high summer , and Dickens himself does not mention a fire , but it is featured by one of his illustrators , within a chimneypiece much too solid and grand for a labourer 's ‘ hut ’ ( Fig. 39 ) . |
| 2 | Unlike the House of Lords it is elected , but it is elected by local councillors , an overwhelming majority of them from small country ‘ communes ’ . |
| 3 | The Court adjourned the matter until Thursday , ‘ but it is hoped by both parties that by then the current uncertainty and speculation concerning the future of Manchester will have been resolved ’ . |
| 4 | It may be a one-woman play but it is peopled by many other characters in Shirley 's life , from the stickin-the-mud husband to the snooty neighbour . |
| 5 | Electronics has been the fastest growing sector of the Scottish economy in recent years , but it is dominated by externally-controlled multi-nationals . |
| 6 | His sadism is satisfied , at least at first , within the permitted limits of naval discipline , but it is accompanied by unpredictable moods and actions which disturb and perplex the crew to the point of mutiny , terrified as they are by the hostile surveillance of the officers and the malicious spying which William Bentley the midshipman carries on by his uncle 's order . |
| 7 | About sixty miles from Johannesburg and the same distance from the provincial capital , Pretoria , Rustenburg 's prosperity was based on mining , especially for platinum , but it is surrounded by good farming land in a warm , beautiful valley . |
| 8 | But it is torn by deeper internal divisions than those warring along ethnic or religious lines . |
| 9 | There are forms of care which are absent , certain kinds of intimacy , and friendship , no touching , for instance , but it 's compensated by other kinds of care which are possible and not risky . |
| 10 | We said they could n't have the corpse if we did n't get it — that 's by the by — but it 's understood by both sides that this is the last of such meetings . |
| 11 | The ‘ inside ’ seems to be everything a person knows and hence the familiar was ego-centred but it was bounded by other members of the group following certain rules . |
| 12 | The special relationship was born of a common heritage , but it was nurtured by American and British self-interest as well . |
| 13 | There was still pleasure in it somewhere , but it was choked by exasperating routine : waiting for the staff to go , getting undressed , making up the bed , before the fleeting moment of physical relief was attained . |
| 14 | Primitive their house certainly was , with its earthen floor , mud walls , thatched roof and rude furniture ; but it was imbued by those two remarkable and lovable people with a warmth that few homes can ever have equalled . |
| 15 | But it was said by many doubters that British Airways could never be privatised . |
| 16 | Heads played a crucial part in developing such a culture , but it was sustained by other leaders ( especially deputies ) and by active participation of staff members . |
| 17 | But it was beset by internal politics and narrow-mindedness . |
| 18 | The new youth movement of the 1880s shared many of these concerns in varying degrees , but it was motivated by several other ambitions which included keeping boys ‘ off the streets ’ , actively teaching the value of discipline , spreading the public school esprit de corps , and generally advocating the intangible virtues of ‘ character ’ . |
| 19 | But it was confirmed by harder evidence , above all by the national survey conducted for the 1960 Royal Commission on the Police . |
| 20 | It was only a relatively small Arab army that arrived in Egypt in AD 639 , but it was welcomed by many Egyptians anxious to see the overthrow of the unpopular Byzantine rulers . |
| 21 | But it was passed by 848 votes to 10 . |