Example sentences of "but it [modal v] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If K is large , then the algorithm will ’ jump to conclusions ’ quickly , but it may overshoot the optimum weights . |
| 2 | If the horse suddenly starts bucking when we ride it , and we jump off and swat it with a cane ; the horse will remember , but it may remember the wrong thing . |
| 3 | But it would eat the other fish ! ’ |
| 4 | But it would undermine the essential certainty of an approach which sees the abolition of the GLC as an integral part of an attack on local autonomy . |
| 5 | The section then continues — ‘ But it shall comprise the following particulars : — ( a ) All such property as may belong to or be vested in the bankrupt at the commencement of the bankruptcy , or may be acquired by or devolve on him before his discharge ; … |
| 6 | Stroud District Council says it 's aware of the shopkeepers ' problems , but it must consider the conservation aspect . |
| 7 | The documentary impulse was inherent in the contract filmmakers made with the MOI at the beginning of the war , but it could absorb the poetic romanticism or Powell-Pressburger , the sophisticated visual and verbal montages produced by Humphrey Jennings , another documentarist with surrealist roots , in such 1941 pictures as Words for Battle and Listen to Britain , as well as films in the realist tradition . |
| 8 | Education , in itself , he said , was ‘ no panacea ’ , but it could help the young person to avoid unskilled labour . |
| 9 | Nor is kin selection the only force promoting cooperation in lions ; but it can amplify the initial advantage of being in a group . |
| 10 | In particular , this may mean the preparation of promotional materials for specifically targeted groups , including students , parents , governors and employers , but it will mean the careful enunciation of arguments for particular groups . |
| 11 | My conclusion will not necessarily be an optimistic one — it will emphasize potential rather than expectation — but it will lack the negative connotations attached to the foregoing analyses . |
| 12 | It may serve a useful purpose for a universalized anthropological social psychology , but it will lack the necessary focus to be a key theoretical notion in a particular , historical social psychology . |