Example sentences of "but be [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I attempt champagne again but am given but cursory attention from director . |
| 2 | There had been a tremendous hash made of one contract by her predecessor , it was true , but that had all but been completed when it had landed on her desk , so there was no way she could be held to account for it . |
| 3 | How Brampton and Vechey had probably not committed suicide but been murdered and that Allingham 's supposed death from natural causes was probably the murderer striking again . |
| 4 | These houses ( 140 were identified and illustrated ) still stand , but are neglected and decaying and in desperate need of new owners and new uses . |
| 5 | Since historicity and textuality are no longer imagined as smooth pegs sliding into smooth holes , but are seen as irregular and variable-sided , fitting them together will presumably involve some difficulty . |
| 6 | The dark fine-grained rocks lie not in horizontal layers like all those above , but are twisted and buckled and riven with veins of pink granite . |
| 7 | Miller suggests that positive ‘ feminine ’ psychic characteristics are socialized away in men , but are ignored and even encouraged in women . |
| 8 | This may not correspond to any major structural difference between languages ; for example , the spoken forms of Urdu and Hindi are almost identical but are perceived as different apparently because of their strong association with Muslim and Hindu ethnicity ( Linguistic Minorities Project 1985 : 45 ) . |
| 9 | Old gardens are not abandoned but are visited and cropped for up to 30 years ; these also attract game and facilitate hunting . |
| 10 | Much work has centred on activities that are criminal , by contemporary definitions , but are hidden and undetected — one of the greatest benefits of power being the privacy and impunity that it seems to guarantee ( see Geis and Stotland , 1980 ) . |
| 11 | The texts accompanying the illustrations are concise , but are intended when read in sequence to give a simple coherent account of each disease . |
| 12 | The texts accompanying the illustrations are concise , but are intended when read in sequence to give a simple coherent account of each disease . |
| 13 | Clare and Dawn , and former receptionist Angela Pelling ( who now works in the Transport Department with Hazel Thorpe ) were all previously hairdressers , but are agreed that they much prefer their work at Rentokil . |
| 14 | John Claridge wrote in his report of 1793 : ‘ In the parishes of Swanwich ( called Swanage ) , Langton and Worthe , upwards of 400 people are employed in digging and tooling the stone which is raised here from pits , some 20 others 40 feet deep ; they are not open to the top , but are undermined and underbuilt ; it is excellent stone for walling , floors , steps , tombstones , troughs , and feet and caps for rick staddles . |
| 15 | Module images are produced in pages as in a computer listing , but are ordered and displayed differently according to the media type chosen , and the settings in the configuration file , as described later . |
| 16 | Some are dismantled entirely into separate components for generative reassembly in reference to grammatical rule , others are partly dismantled but are left as adaptable formulaic frameworks to be adjusted to circumstances ; some again remain as holistically fixed , essentially large-scale lexical items . |
| 17 | Some information is registered and acted upon , other information may register but be stored and recalled later whilst other information may not be registered at all . |
| 18 | I only wish I could mention everyone and everything that goes to make up the whole of Christian Aid and its spirit , but be assured that we do not forget any contribution or take anyone 's help for granted . |
| 19 | Ideas that arise in Quadrant 4 may be very exciting to the person concerned , but be seen as trivial by those who have to implement them , with the result that the innovation process is less effective than it might be . |
| 20 | They would have been invaluable to the inquiry — and to the crew , as book and movie offers pour in — but were lost when the wreck was smashed to pieces on the island 's rocks . |
| 21 | Some may be seen 20 or more years later to have been seminal but were ignored because they did not fit into the theories current at the time . |
| 22 | Some of the refugees originally refused to touch East German territory again , but were reassured when two of the West German diplomats said they would accompany the train , to ensure that the rules were followed . |
| 23 | Brian Close , Ray Illingworth and Fred Trueman wanted a tearaway fast bowler but were overruled when paymasters Yorkshire TV insisted on the world 's number two batsman . |
| 24 | They included reforms within the Inland Revenue Service ( raising $3,000 million ) and Bush 's controversial capital gains tax changes , dropped from the fiscal 1990 budget under congressional pressure [ see p. 37036 ] , which actually involved reducing the rate of tax , but were assessed as encouraging sufficient declarations of capital gains in fiscal 1991 to raise an additional $4,900 million . |
| 25 | After the Nazi occupation of France in 1940 he escaped to the United States where Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard tried to recruit him to their team at Columbia but were prevented because Washington at that time did not recognise the Free French forces . |
| 26 | Farm incomes averaged as little as £442 per annum , but were regarded as providing ‘ a useful — even essential — supplement to other non-farming sources of income ’ . |
| 27 | By 1761 the artillery consisted of 31 field companies , totalling 3200 officers and men ; the former , unlike their infantry and cavalry colleagues , did not have to purchase their commissions but were appointed and promoted solely on merit , and the British artillery was soon recognised as the best in the world . |
| 28 | Three cavalry companies gave pursuit , but were scattered when the warriors turned to defend a lava escarpment . |
| 29 | The company initially expressed doubts as to their liability to duty but were informed that the revenue were of the opinion that the duties were payable and that they would incur penalties if they did not pay . |
| 30 | These reached a peak during the truce of 1444–49 , but were halved when war was renewed in the latter year . |