Example sentences of "but in [adj] [pers pn] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sharks have huge oily livers , which increase buoyancy , but in general they are obliged to keep swimming to provide enough lift to avoid sinking ; though some species , in practice , are happy to rest on the bottom . |
| 2 | Giant tortoises in the past have existed on continents or quasi-continents ( both on South America and Madagascar ) but in general they are island animals . |
| 3 | Features of the first type are almost universally found in adult speech to children , but in general they are not found to be associated with variation in the children 's rate of learning ( Newport , Gleitman and Gleitman , 1977 ; Cross , 1978 ; Ellis , 1978 ) . |
| 4 | But if , if our fee bids , that have been going in so far , are there or thereabouts and having monitored reports for quite a while , tendencies and yes some are under and some are a bit over but in general they 're not th they 're not that far out . |
| 5 | Well of course the biggest social thing in Ireland is the pub and it 's not I mean the Irish have a a name for being very heavy drinkers but in general they 're not heavy drinkers they just spend a lot of time in pubs . |
| 6 | She has almost certainly overestimated both factors ; but in general she is correct in saying that Britain comes up with good ideas and often ends up importing the products that stem from those ideas . |
| 7 | Property ( other than a legal estate in land ) may be transferred , and binding promises may be made to an infant , but in general he is unable to make a binding disposition of his property or to make binding promises to others . |
| 8 | But in general it was good for mankind to look outward to the stars . |
| 9 | All visitors were exhorted to treat the poor courteously , but in general it was optimistically believed that women would be able to talk to women irrespective of social class : not until the 1900s were the difficulties of cross-class communication acknowledged more honestly . |
| 10 | But in private we are comfortable living with ourselves — we just do n't always admit it to ourselves . |