Example sentences of "but [pron] would [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might well be that some of them had work as servants , or in agriculture — but there would be strong competition for the latter , for quite apart from the regular farm labourers there were a considerable number of workmen not as fully employed at the mine as perhaps they would have wished . |
| 2 | Not only would there be great procedural difficulties in doing so , but there would be political difficulties . |
| 3 | She was pissed off at missing Triste at the bar , but there would be other jobs . |
| 4 | However , the line would cross Croydon Road and continue down Elmers End Road to the Beckenham boundary , but there would be connecting curves at the Robin Hood . |
| 5 | But there would be some D-D reactions in a reactor filled with deuterium and helium-3 , which do produce neutrons . |
| 6 | There would be no cuts in major services , but there would be some reductions in the community education service and cuts in payments to outside bodies . |
| 7 | ‘ I could build an electric lute , ’ Arthur continued , ‘ but there would be little point : no one is making music for electric lutes . ’ |
| 8 | We could calculate the heritability for a character of which we did know the exact genetics ( such as Mendel 's peas ) , but there would be little point in doing so , because the actual genotypes controlling the trait are more informative than the heritability . |
| 9 | But it would been hot stuff you see to begin with . |
| 10 | I had no desire to go out , but it would be one way of getting through the evening . |
| 11 | I happen to believe in miracles , but it would be sheer folly to depend on them . |
| 12 | But it would be wishful thinking to explain away all , or even most , of the increase as an artefact of recording changes . |
| 13 | They have a tendency to be temperamental , but it would be good experience . |
| 14 | Laurence Stone , 27 , blacksmith ( right ) : ‘ I would n't wear this every day on the street but it would be good fun for a club . ’ |
| 15 | The company said that complex negotiations were proceeding quickly but it would be some time before there was progress to report . |
| 16 | If they were uninhabited , they would be settled of course , but it would be some time before the Kha-Khan 's tenth was repaid . |
| 17 | Samples of both victims ' blood would be taken from the bodies at the post-mortem , but it would be three days at least before he could expect to get the result of the analysis . |
| 18 | The achievement was quite otherwise ; but it would be several years before that could be perceived , and the perception validated . |
| 19 | But it would be old lamps and Peedie bits of and when you speak about long ago times I associate the smell of paraffin and sawdust and cooking apples and all that you go into Peedie shops and there was a fine relationship , you go in and Well I used to be for the old folk and they were all awful good to me , and the particular and we used to go every Saturday night to a shop called Blacks and it stayed open till nine o'clock . |
| 20 | He had prospects , but it would be hard work . |