Example sentences of "but it can [adv] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the er but it ca n't be done on modern alarms now because the bell boxes they use are anti-foam and they probably have two or three alarm |
| 2 | Said Mr Costain : ‘ We would have liked to build a replacement with a wooden verandah and steps , but it ca n't be done in this day and age , so we had to build a concrete one like Fort Knox . ’ |
| 3 | The draft for this is almost complete but it ca n't be finalised until the costs of the revised programme have been agreed for each of the participating nations . |
| 4 | But it ca n't be denied that in the days following the concert — which was seen by one-and-a-half billion people all over the world groups watched their LPs , new and old , surge healthily up the charts , taking their bank balances to new heights . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't know how strong the Bridge is , but it ca n't be designed to absorb this much stress . ’ |
| 6 | The IRA may have been defeated at the ballot box , but it ca n't be accused of not trying . |
| 7 | But it ca n't be managed in this country cos nobody 's got the expertise of the management of these sort of hotels . |
| 8 | Volume and other discounts up to 20% of the single unit purchase price can be combined with the promotion , but it ca n't be combined with special bids . |
| 9 | The train pulled in at her station and Lee got herself out into the street , touching too many people , climbing ugly grey stairs , looking at posters advertising Tampax , warning about Aids , promising relief in the Bahamas , selling newspapers , selling theatre tickets , selling life , she thought , but it ca n't be bought , not really , it 's within . |
| 10 | ‘ we did mean to live together , of course , but it ca n't be helped . |
| 11 | I 'm sorry to put you to any inconvenience , but it ca n't be helped . |
| 12 | ‘ But it ca n't be helped , ’ she added brightly . |
| 13 | ‘ I shall probably have to do this year again , but it ca n't be helped . |
| 14 | That there was a pattern for her in Lermontov 's novel is conceivable : but it ca n't be claimed that it fits her with exactitude , or that it provides an explanation of her conduct . |
| 15 | But it can not be accepted that every time there is a tragedy in the Health Service , where there has been no professional neglect , that instantly there should be compensation . |
| 16 | ‘ This is n't as lot of work if many people are involved , but it can not be done by just a handful . ’ |
| 17 | Ireland may one day be a united nation , but it can not be done and should not be done from London . |
| 18 | Capetian claims to jurisdiction were therefore certainly experienced in Béarn and Bigorre after 1285 , but it can not be argued that either Gaston VII or Roger-Bernard III were willing instruments of French royal sovereignty . |
| 19 | But it can not be stated too emphatically that the principles by reference to which decisions are made are not within the unique prerogative of doctors to lay down . |
| 20 | It may , of course , be reintroduced into the House of Lord ; and passed again in a later session , but it can not be enacted until the House of Commons passes it . |
| 21 | Sexuality may be a component in stratification by gender but it can not be assumed a priori by a process of projection in which the male sociologist , himself accustomed to thinking of women in these terms , imposes his own proclivities and preoccupations on the data he is analysing . |
| 22 | But it can not be assumed that these developments have in fact led to equality within the sexual sphere of marriage . |
| 23 | Papers subsequently published by such researchers may show no obvious Scottish connection in their titles , but it can not be assumed that the work is unrelated to their thesis topic . |
| 24 | Papers subsequently published by such researchers may show no obvious Scottish connection in their titles , but it can not be assumed that the work is unrelated to their thesis topic . |
| 25 | Many of the shortcomings of the eastern type are similar to those of the western , but it can not be denied that it is the immensely complicated nature alone of the eastern Buddhism , Hinduism and their derivatives that is sufficient to make them equally useless as a basis of a religion of the character that mankind needs . |
| 26 | Tradition maintains that many of the Campbells warned Macdonalds in time for them to escape but it can not be denied that on that winter morning in Glencoe many of the Clan Campbell plumbed the depths of treachery and horror . |
| 27 | But it can not be denied that they had neglected their fixed charities . |
| 28 | This is a crude form of distraction display , but it can not be developed much further because of the context in which it occurs . |
| 29 | There was no evidence for sparking , says Pilling , but it can not be ruled out . |
| 30 | On the question of Poland , Lenin accepted much of Rosa Luxemburg 's case that circumstances had qualitatively changed since the time of Marx — ‘ the restoration of Poland , prior to the fall of capitalism , is highly improbable , but it can not be asserted that it is absolutely impossible ’ . |