Example sentences of "but let [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One can sympathise with owners of great houses , faced with tax and running costs , but let them not think that furnishings of the standing of Kent 's at Houghton can simply be dispensed with as ‘ surplus to requirements ’ and that their loss from the house would not in future be regretted . |
| 2 | Sett all on a slow fire and keep them covered with syrup & paper , but let them not boyl . |
| 3 | Of course , there may be those who would argue that the entrenchment of the middle ground in power would be a good thing that would lead to moderate government and stable policies , but let them not argue that it would also be fair or would give the majority of people what they wanted of government . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's a great disappointment that we dominated most of the game but let them back in after leading 2–0 . |
| 5 | But let me just tell you this ; self-pity will destroy you far more assuredly then Ryan could ever have done . ’ |
| 6 | Erm in fact a similar effect happens , I 'll be mentioning this in the lecture but let me just mention it now . |
| 7 | They may , let me just explain the track then , in those situations they may well be investing in the depots , maintenance and so on , but let me just |
| 8 | But let me just tell you we it 's all counted , it 's all written down . |
| 9 | Er I will I will hand over but let me just say this that my instinct is that it a policy expressed in the way you 've you 've suggested is just superfluous because all you 're doing is describing in in a po in upper case letters , the situation as it is and that that my answer is that it would that there would be no need for such a it would be gratuitously ap it 's an unnecessary statement . |
| 10 | If you read this end to end Ron I 'd be very grateful but let me just point out to you we 've agreed twenty eighth , if you bring it forward great . |
| 11 | But let me just deal with labour and plant at the minute and we 'll see , we can do a similar thing . |
| 12 | Let me just , le I 'm not really a , I 'm not really a very numerate political scientist but let me just run some numbers by you to give you an idea of the escalation of the change . |
| 13 | Forgive me I do n't want to go back that far , but , but let me just put the point you 've made to Professor Hoskins . |
| 14 | Well you 've made this study and you 've written a book , Policies for Educational Accountability I think it 's called , which is just recently come out , and I 'm sure that will be a , a very worthwhile contribution , but let me just ask you a personal questions . |
| 15 | erm I 'm conscious of the fact that I 've been going on for perhaps too long and I may not have said quite enough about Darwin , but let me just finish by saying this that it 's not possible today , I believe , to discuss any important problem in biology without Darwin 's thought being absolutely central to what you 're saying all the time . |
| 16 | Well , we 're going to continue with press releases after lunch , but let me just , I mean in a sense , those were fiction . |
| 17 | There was … but let me not digress . |
| 18 | It was a green scarf but let me quickly say that it was bereft of religious significance . |
| 19 | Other editors might make a slip , but let her so much as spell a name wrong and her telephone would blare , and some outraged lady would correct her with withering sarcasm . |
| 20 | The Chapters below will each be concerned with particular principles of this kind , but let us here just identify the aspects of the utterances that trigger each of the inferences . |
| 21 | But let us also remember that the opposition have an obligation to stay behind the off-side line . |
| 22 | But let us also remember that Baron Cuvier , perhaps the greatest protagonist of catastrophism in its earlier form , worked on the placid , untectonised sediments of Montmartre and the environs of Paris . |
| 23 | BUT Let us not forget Let us not Oh , let's … ? |
| 24 | But let us not be led astray : the practice of homosexuality is anathema to all Christian people and not just in Europe . |
| 25 | I believe the readers ads fulfil a necessary part of the market , but let us not forget our local and national dealers . |
| 26 | It 's great to be instantly famous — and that 's how A&M makes them feel — but let us not forget what the company 's really interested in . |
| 27 | ‘ But let us not darken our hearts by imagining the trial of their gentle loyalty in the Dark Tower . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , thanks , ’ I said , ‘ for the kind words , Daisy , but let us not kid ourselves . |
| 29 | But let us not forget the reputation for compassion in which Britain still leads the world … ’ |
| 30 | ( Goodman , 1965 , p. 17 , p. 23 , cf. p. 14 ; Ayer , 1972 , pp. 120 f. , cf. p 118 ; Lewis , 1973 , p. 1 ; Mackie , 1973 , p. 64 ) As a look at the philosophy of language and its analyses of " meaning " or its uses of " semantics " quickly shows , much more would need to be done to give us a well-defined problem , but let us not linger . |