Example sentences of "but [prep] be [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to be effective they all have to learn to work together for the good of the school . |
| 2 | This can shorten the lead time , but to be effective it must be accompanied by the correct information processing pattern . |
| 3 | It seemed to be floating towards me , but to be sure I forced myself towards it . |
| 4 | I should like to say I joined the scheme out of humanitarian concerns but to be honest it was with a view to increasing business . |
| 5 | But to be honest it is a good way of focusing in on what you what we 've been talking about tonight and if you can I think it would be worthwhile doing as part of your preparation to help you to think . |
| 6 | Lord of the Field , a winner at the Curragh , is an English entry but to be honest it all looks a bit thin on the ground — a bit like the St Leger . |
| 7 | ‘ But to be honest it has broken my heart to leave Bangor . |
| 8 | Lord of the Field , a winner at the Curragh , is an English entry but to be honest it all looks a bit thin on the ground — a bit like the St Leger . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've watched the TV series Specials , but to be honest it 's a load of rubbish . |
| 10 | out , he says to me you 'll kill yourself , you always want to do something , but to be honest it 's worse for me to sit there and watch that , it 's more tiring because by the end of the night I 'm not tired or I 've been asleep all evening I , I 'm better to go out , I know it sounds awful but I do n't like being trapped , I do n't like being in because somebody seems to think I should be in |
| 11 | ‘ They like her music very much but to be honest I am of the older regime , I prefer the traditional Welsh choral music . |
| 12 | Erm but to be honest I , I think you 're right about the Christian angle because I do think that erm , although I enjoyed that year , |
| 13 | I 've come to terms with it , it does n't bother whether I 've got it or not , but to be honest I 'd rather have more hair than I do now . |
| 14 | Erm then on the seventeenth erm we had our part at my house , it was very enjoyable as always , but to be honest I almost collapsed , I really had had it by then . |
| 15 | But to be honest I should n't be eating that sort of thing anyway , so |
| 16 | I know it sounds unfeeling but to be blunt we ca n't go on much longer without any money coming in . |
| 17 | I do n't know but to be truthful I am not hundred percent sold on any of it . |
| 18 | So , you work it out take home an hour but to be realistic you 've got ta take petrol out of it . |
| 19 | Usually , the weight of a person on the extreme nose will prevent the glider lifting off the ground , but to be safe it is best to put a person in the cockpit . |
| 20 | But there you 'd do it in three goes I mean , you could probably do it in two goes , but to be safe you could split it up into three goes so |
| 21 | But to be safe he had promised not to talk of their meetings . |
| 22 | ‘ True , but to be fair he and Grainne do n't worry much about them either . ’ |