Example sentences of "but they be [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | got it dried in no time at all , three sixes , but they 're not to erm |
| 2 | They are human , and are acknowledged to be , they can think but they are not to be acknowledged as authoritative , and if their presence demands such acknowledgement , they are bad women who should have been taught to hide or repress such demands . |
| 3 | In their personal freedom I would n't say they are free like English girls but they are up to a point . |
| 4 | Thing is a lexical item , it is a grammatical ‘ function ’ word , but they are hardly to be distinguished in terms of degree of generality . |
| 5 | These coins can be dated no more closely than the late 750s or early 760s , but they are possibly to be associated with the disintegration of Aethelbald 's imperium in southern England following his death . |
| 6 | Willie had looked around for the twins and George , but they were nowhere to be seen . |
| 7 | She peered round for the nuns , but they were nowhere to be seen . |
| 8 | Refugees were seen as deserving sympathy and help , but they were not to be pampered . |
| 9 | But they were n't to her . |
| 10 | Yeah , yeah , oh yes of course a lot of the people were , that were in the we were in under the balcony but they were up to their knees in plaster and goodness knows what that had come out of the roof they could n't move it all dropped round them . |
| 11 | But they were only to be offered upon condition that this created no precedent . |