Example sentences of "but [subord] [art] [noun sg] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has the appearance of an emergency military operation which may not apply to the other civil defences , but these too must have been commissioned for a specific occasion , but where the emergency may not have been too critical . |
| 2 | But where the hell could I find a large straight , flat piece of wood ? |
| 3 | But where the hell can you raise that money ? ’ |
| 4 | What I am putting before the House are serious considerations about the balance between the rights of individuals , which may be damaged in the course of a case but where the record can subsequently be put straight , the rights of those who are before the courts , accused , to deploy their defence , and the rights of the public at large to scrutinise that process . |
| 5 | Not only is it very tiring , even impossibly exhausting , to rely on speechreading , but where the information may be conveyed in unfamiliar or technical terms , speechreading may not be sufficiently concise for certainty . |
| 6 | For example , considering ( 3 ) , there is no fixed number of participants at which conversation becomes impossible , but although a conversation can take place between five people , it can not take place between a hundred . |
| 7 | But although the spirit might be willing , there were difficulties , chiefly economic ones , to be overcome . |
| 8 | But although the prize may have enhanced Mr Gorbachov 's standing in the international community , his position at home is still precarious . |
| 9 | But if a child can make mistakes in safety , learn through the warmth of a cuddle , or through laughter , his trust and feeling of parental acceptance is not destroyed . |
| 10 | Whoever cares for his own safety is lost ; but if a man will let himself be lost for my sake and for the Gospel that man is safe ( Mark 8:35 ) . |
| 11 | A cluster is not the same as a concept , but if a learner can discover natural clusters then this is progress towards finding a concept . |
| 12 | But if a woman should ask for a particular garment , he would take her into what had been the front room of the house and there , in comparative privacy , she could make her choice and try on the clothes . |
| 13 | Knowing this , the interpretation given by the assessors to phrases like ‘ reasonable experience ’ or ‘ satisfactory cover ’ has to be sympathetic ; but if a rule can not be enforced , it may not be a good rule . |
| 14 | Not only does tephrachronology enable a far-flung ash to be uniquely identified , but if the ash can be independently dated at any single locality by isotopic methods , then it provides a firm foundation on which to build the history of a volcano . |
| 15 | By the time we are grown we are a badly mixed solution , but if the water can resurface , where it rightly belongs , then we will be as we once were , before all those hurts arrived . |
| 16 | But if the prosecutor can show an intention to provoke unlawful violence , as by causing a policeman to over-react , a prosecution will succeed because of the defendant 's intention to be considered presently . |
| 17 | But if the bronchoscope could see cancers before they became lumpy , that might change . |
| 18 | Taxis are obviously easier to use , but if the patient can not speak properly , he may need to use clearly written cards to explain to the taxi driver why he can not speak , and where he wants to go . |
| 19 | But if the patient could be restored to a state whereby he could enjoy a further period of life at the level of comfort he previously had , then it should be treated . |
| 20 | But if the cat can see nothing and feel nothing and yet it still reacts to the loud noise you make , then yours is one of the fortunate , hearing white cats . |
| 21 | Umm but if the neighbour will take it sign the receipt but that 's fine . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , this may be precisely when your scoring technique thumps home but if the panel ca n't see it , they ca n't award a point . |
| 23 | Yes , but if the Minister will come into the real world , he will find that redundancies are still occurring . |
| 24 | But if the plea can be supported by a finding of guilt alone , a defendant might escape punishment altogether . |
| 25 | There is no special dispensation for accountants , but if the firm could obtain its own individual dispensation , this would be by far the best solution . |
| 26 | The importance of such developments will be clear : planning for resource-based learning is a taxing and time-consuming activity for teachers , but if the work can be shared , if the expertise and creativity of colleagues can be made easily available , and if the teacher can have ready access to advice , guidance and encouragement , an important contribution has been made and some of the burden shifted . |
| 27 | But if the eye can remain open without being seen , then the prey has the best of both worlds . |
| 28 | He has said that the £15m on offer was either too little or too much — too little to pacify the bankers if Eagle was in trouble but if the group could be turned around a recapitalisation would not be needed . |
| 29 | But if the situation must be represented as a multi-faceted negotiation rather than the simple , voluntary intervention which Benjamin sometimes seems to describe , he did nevertheless offer a way of analysis which speaks the language of the new pattern of determinants characteristic of late capitalist societies . |
| 30 | But if the audience could receive ‘ Heshang ’ with tolerance , then the programme should accept criticism with tolerance . |