Example sentences of "but this [modal v] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It was therefore decided to run a third train on December 5 , but this would clash with the start of our intensive Santa Special operations and so we had no choice but to operate the train from the Alfreton and Mansfield Parkway Station . ’ |
| 2 | Clients who needed money would become upset at what they considered inappropriate questioning , but this would suggest to the workers that they had touched a sensitive point , confirming some personal theory that it was not really money that the clients required . |
| 3 | The obvious answer is to fuse national insurance with income tax , but this would offend against the notion ( it is really no more than that ) that the national insurance system is ‘ contributory ’ . |
| 4 | You could partition off part of the tank for the other fish but this would detract from the overall appearance and may not necessarily work . |
| 5 | There is a danger of closed-belief systems emerging in the social sciences , but this can apply to the way in which a thinker is excluded from debates about human society as well as to the strict adherence to one thinker , or type of thinker , alone , as a safe source of authority . |
| 6 | There 's another element which Your Lordships have not touched on to do with this land which is why er we are being very cautious about our plans for it and that is that er the union railways have indicated a requirement to lease two point eight acres of the land for site purposes from nineteen ninety seven to thousand and three er , but this will depend on the timetable for construction of the Channel Tunnel Link . |
| 7 | The multiprocessing version of IBM Corp 's OS/2 demonstrated at Comdex will be going into beta test sites this summer : theoretically it is capable of supporting up to 16 processors , but the company humms and hahs about how many are practicable ; the kernel itself is locked so that it runs on a single processor , but this will change in the forthcoming versions using Workplace OS , says IBM 's Ms Dimfel . |
| 8 | The multiprocessing version of IBM Corp 's OS/2 demonstrated at Comdex will be going into beta test sites this summer : theoretically it is capable of supporting up to 16 processors , but the company humms and hahs about how many are practicable ; the kernel itself is locked so that it runs on a single processor , but this will change in the forthcoming versions using Workplace OS , says IBM 's Ms Dimfel . |
| 9 | The acquisition will initially increase Pilkington 's gearing to 90 per cent , but this will fall after the anticipated sale of the spectacle-lens business , Sola . |
| 10 | If one wants to increase the output of trained social workers or teachers one can reduce the length of their training and dilute its standard , but this will conflict with the need for more specialized staff for the more specialized needs and problems that better services reveal . |
| 11 | Multiple biopsies may be another way to show evidence of FAP ( microadenomata ) , but this will add to the risk of the procedure and a negative result may still not allow total reassurance . |