Example sentences of "but [det] [vb mod] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that 'll help you check he 's the one we 're looking for . ’ |
| 2 | But that would make them vulnerable to a surprise attack . |
| 3 | The only thing she could think of was a request to use the lavatory , but that would tell her little beyond the colour of Veronica 's bathroom suite . |
| 4 | I could come back as Kylie Minogue 's bra , but that would leave me seriously unfulfilled . |
| 5 | One horseman revealed that he could jade a horse standing , say , on the sandy apron outside an Inn simply by walking round him and unobtrusively dropping one of the obnoxious powders in the sand , especially in front of him : ‘ You did n't have to touch the horse , but that would stop him . ’ |
| 6 | But that would take us deeper into philosophy than we have space to go . |
| 7 | I have a great urge to throttle you , but that would prove I 'd inherited your madness and I want no trait of you to show in me , ever . |
| 8 | Of course I worry about that because I 'm a human being , but that can make you paralysed . |
| 9 | You can be married more quickly with a special licence but that will cost you £80 . |
| 10 | Okay but that will give us too much |
| 11 | Not everyone holds IBM Corp 's PS/2 product line in the highest possible regard , but few would put it quite the way Reuter did : ‘ the PS/2 Server is a faulty tolerant server system designed for Novell NetWare environments ’ it declared roundly . |
| 12 | A comma has been used here to separate the two distinct impressions , but some might think it unnecessary even there . |
| 13 | He 's not exactly Douglas Fairbanks , but some might consider him handsome . ’ |
| 14 | But this might allow them to be retained , when other class affiliations are lost . |
| 15 | But this 'll tell you if you 're veering that way , so you can go , ooh , and perhaps spend one day a week on that , just to get into it , and the rest of it 's going to be managing my practice . |
| 16 | Rod Wallace could , I suppose play wide on the right , but this would restrict him too much . |
| 17 | To become a JANET site in our own right would cost approximately £10,000 initial registration fee , but this would give us complete control over the security and budget of the communication system , for the free exchange of non-commercial information between research institutions , which is not currently possible . |
| 18 | Some lighting improvements will mean new wiring — but this would give you the chance to fit dimmer switches , security light switches and two-way switches , all of which make the lighting more flexible . |
| 19 | For instance , erm erm a good illustration of this is Locke 's erm erm argument on the right of inheritance and erm in this case I am quoting from the first treatise of government the right a son has to be maintained , has to be maintained and provided with the necessary the necessities and conveniences of life out of his father 's stock gives him a right to succeed to his father 's property for his own good but this can give him no right to succeed also to the rule which his father had over other men . |
| 20 | The nature of the choice of language is , of course , slightly different from that of most speaker/listeners : it is a more closed choice — ‘ dictated ’ by the clients , but this can make it more difficult , not less so , particularly since so much can depend on choosing appropriately and being able to do so both ways : clearly a community interpreter can not work brilliantly into one language and culture and poorly into the other . |
| 21 | But this will make it richer and more real when you recommend books to others who are questioning and searching . |
| 22 | But this will avail us nothing unless we get primary and secondary schooling right . |
| 23 | Coun Skinner said : ‘ We thought everything had been resolved but this could mean we have to discuss the speed restrictions again . ’ |
| 24 | In the past , the surgeon would automatically snip out the affected tubes , but this could leave you with half the chance of conceiving later , or completely infertile . |
| 25 | Again , they are prevented from recommending any particular firm , but many will allow you to put a brief piece in their list of referral solicitors saying what your particular area of work is . |
| 26 | But most will manage it . |
| 27 | Some may have doubts , I suppose , but most will accept it . |