Example sentences of "but [pron] be [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may be in a murderous place , but I am in a sensible country . |
| 2 | I was confident by this time that I was safe , despite retaining my poor showing at school , but I was in a new trade — Metal Rigger — and was , by result , as good as most . |
| 3 | But I was in a hopeless situation , an anonymous , unknown Australian , a suspect in English eyes . |
| 4 | But I was in a foul temper , and Rebecca had n't made it any easier by going on about missing papers , and how urgent it was that we had them back . ’ |
| 5 | I was still a nothing , but I was in a good position to get at Charlie when the time was right . |
| 6 | But I was in a bad mood with myself . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm lucky , really , because I 'm with Denis and Astrid and they 're real friends — good friends and their comfort is so welcome — but I 'm in a foreign country so I 'm alone , and what I most want to do is talk about Dad to people — which is why I 'm writing this . |
| 8 | They might or might not ask spot the point , they may or may not answer the right questions , but you 're in a marvellous point of view , position , to actually be able to spot angles . |
| 9 | This storm has killed the oaks , but you are in a warm place , where the leaves are green . |
| 10 | The men were taken to hospital but none was in a serious condition . |
| 11 | But she 's on a early she can come with him and we 'll go in her car . |
| 12 | ‘ See , ducks , this Mrs Hollidaye what we 're going to see , her clothes are that shabby , but she 's like a real lady . |
| 13 | ‘ But she was with a young man … |
| 14 | But she was on a winning streak , a lucky wave ; she would nip down to the Gas Board and fix things up . |
| 15 | She was sorry for this little man and his problem but she was in a tearing hurry . |
| 16 | We a , but we are on a regular day er |
| 17 | Ibrox manager Walter Smith said : ‘ We are still without injured Gary Stevens and suspended Ian Ferguson , but we are in a good position with our squad . |
| 18 | But we were without a first officer . |
| 19 | We were not merely ready to welcome strange things when we had walked half a mile up a lane and met no man , but we were in a gracious condition for receiving whatever might fall to us . |
| 20 | It was an Arab strike but we were in a safe area . |
| 21 | But everything was on a smaller scale since production by capital investment was no longer possible . |
| 22 | We do n't name him but whoever is in a particular spot should be responsible for a certain area , which in in fundamentally it is done that in quite a number of instances but I mean one thing that springs to mind is that a lady shall clear the ladies toilets . |
| 23 | Obviously many factors play a part , but there is over a twofold difference ( 179 v 364 per million ) between the worst and best served districts . |
| 24 | yeah , but they 're on a real roll at the moment are n't they ? |
| 25 | A less favourable note was added by Lady Fanshawe , who declared that the Cornish were , ‘ … hospitable to their neighbours , but they are of a crafty and censorious nature , as most are so far from London ’ . |
| 26 | But they are of a different order from the kind of personal crisis which people experience as distressing or disabling , such as the break-up of a marriage . |
| 27 | Gray added : ‘ Huddersfield have won only one game since the turn of the year but they are in a good position for a play-off place . |
| 28 | Hacker 's point was that women may be in a numerical majority , but they are in a cultural minority . |
| 29 | Parts of me thought all this was nonsense , but they were in a tiny minority . |
| 30 | But they were in a startling and unconventional situation . |