Example sentences of "but [subord] [art] [noun sg] [modal v] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only is it very tiring , even impossibly exhausting , to rely on speechreading , but where the information may be conveyed in unfamiliar or technical terms , speechreading may not be sufficiently concise for certainty . |
| 2 | But although the spirit might be willing , there were difficulties , chiefly economic ones , to be overcome . |
| 3 | Not only does tephrachronology enable a far-flung ash to be uniquely identified , but if the ash can be independently dated at any single locality by isotopic methods , then it provides a firm foundation on which to build the history of a volcano . |
| 4 | But if the patient could be restored to a state whereby he could enjoy a further period of life at the level of comfort he previously had , then it should be treated . |
| 5 | But if the plea can be supported by a finding of guilt alone , a defendant might escape punishment altogether . |
| 6 | The importance of such developments will be clear : planning for resource-based learning is a taxing and time-consuming activity for teachers , but if the work can be shared , if the expertise and creativity of colleagues can be made easily available , and if the teacher can have ready access to advice , guidance and encouragement , an important contribution has been made and some of the burden shifted . |
| 7 | He has said that the £15m on offer was either too little or too much — too little to pacify the bankers if Eagle was in trouble but if the group could be turned around a recapitalisation would not be needed . |
| 8 | But if the situation must be represented as a multi-faceted negotiation rather than the simple , voluntary intervention which Benjamin sometimes seems to describe , he did nevertheless offer a way of analysis which speaks the language of the new pattern of determinants characteristic of late capitalist societies . |
| 9 | Soon the airway will stay open of its own accord , but until the tube can be removed mucus must be sucked out every few hours . |
| 10 | In other words , according to his detractors , he breaks not because he has spotted an opening but because a break should be part of the complete scrum-half 's armoury . |
| 11 | Accordingly , on many occasions the choice of a collector became in itself a trial of strength between the political interests in a county , not only because of the intrinsic attractions of the office itself , but because the collector would be involved in the production of the certificates of valuation required as part of the documentation to be produced for claimants seeking admission to the freeholders roll . |
| 12 | Interest has been shown already , but before a decision can be taken to invest Society funds , we would ask all QTs to take a straw poll in their classes to establish interest . |
| 13 | ‘ But before the payment could be made the owner of The Mail on Sunday , Lord Rothermere , issued a directive that no money should be paid to criminals or their families . |
| 14 | But before the alliance could be cemented a number of problems had to be resolved , not least of which was residual opposition within the society to its recent shift in direction . |
| 15 | A site was sought for a garage , but before the matter could be taken further , there came news of a possible change in control of the company and things were left in abeyance for the time being . |
| 16 | But though the intention will be to curb the power of union leaders wielding hundreds of thousands of block votes , Mr Whitty emphasised that Labour would remain a trade union-based party . |
| 17 | But though the camera may be at gut level , a cerebral decision has placed it there , and it is characteristic of Greenaway that he should stylise a major element of his film in this way . |
| 18 | But as the reader will be aware , during the past decade or so , the courts , building on a series of decisions which quite properly and logically held ineffective a number of ingenious and entirely artificial schemes devised for the manufacture and allowance of losses or expenses which were never in fact incurred , have sought to create and apply to transactions conferring tax advantages for which the legislature has made provision a doctrine of ‘ legitimate business purpose ’ , the general effect of which is that even though the citizen follows to the letter that which Parliament has told him that he can do in order to attract the fiscal consequences which Parliament has statutorily decreed will follow if he does it , nevertheless , whatever Parliament may have said shall be the consequences , the courts will and must decline to give effect , not to what he has done , but to the fiscal consequences which Parliament has provided , unless he demonstrates that there was a ‘ legitimate business purpose ’ for his action . |