Example sentences of "but it [modal v] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A State may not claim reimbursement of taxes and costs of any nature for executing a Letter , but it may recover from the requesting State any fees paid to experts and interpreters , as well as the cost of any special procedure requested under Article 9 . |
| 2 | In itself it is of no great importance , but it may serve as a pointer to the presence of other sexually transmitted infection . |
| 3 | The Komatsu robot was designed to help draw detailed maps of the ocean floor but it may serve as a prototype for mining and construction vehicles . |
| 4 | InsP 3 does not appear to play any part in the maturation of invertebrate and amphibian eggs , but it may contribute to the spontaneous maturation of bovine oocytes . |
| 5 | The traditional rituals of port drinking are well-known , but it may came as a surprise to many that it is not the crusty British lawyer savouring his even crustier port that constitutes the core market for port shippers , but the trendy young Frenchman , enjoying young ruby . |
| 6 | Because of its foundation-plus-option course structure , it is difficult to place the Open University in the diagram , but it may tend towards the academic and general at least at the undergraduate level . |
| 7 | The reason for this is not clear but it may relate to the more recent stress associated with handling and anaesthesia for irradiation . |
| 8 | Metre , then , may begin in what stress-phonology makes possible at any given period , but it may end in " the foot " having coercive power . |
| 9 | This provision does not appear to have been formally invoked but it may prove of particular assistance in some federal systems where there can be constitutional problems in appropriating funds for these expenses . |
| 10 | I am sure my husband would not mind if your daughter came but it may need to be the ( comfortable ) sofa for a night ! |
| 11 | So far , this is fly fishing but it may develop into other things . |
| 12 | Police are treating his death as suspicious , but it may take until the end of the week before forensic examination is complete . |
| 13 | It may have bloomed with the post-war boom , but it may wither with recession as it is no longer needed to secure stability . |
| 14 | He had no intention of drinking the stuff , but it might do for a shave . |
| 15 | Yet not only could such a rearrangement be brought about , with the will to do so , but it might come to be seen as greatly to the general advantage of the school . |
| 16 | The airways are clear , but it might lodge in the oesophagus . ’ |
| 17 | Yes , I know it 's from last summer and it 's a bit too tailored for this season , but it 'll do for work . |
| 18 | It does , but it 'll do for now . |
| 19 | I know they 're not very bright , but it 'll dawn on them that something 's happening and they 'll fight back . |
| 20 | Damn it , but it 'll come to me in a moment . |
| 21 | She 's too stuck up to look for it in the back of a cab just yet , but it 'll come to it one day when she gets a few more years on her , even the milkman wo n't be safe and she 'll be grateful . |
| 22 | I always wanted to study art there , but it 'll have to be London now , I suppose — if it 's anywhere ! |
| 23 | I want a , I want a station waggon but it 'll have to be a Ford , personally . |
| 24 | I doubt it , we no we would n't wish to go to , I do n't think , to twenty years , er but it would depend on the level |
| 25 | Er , if any shareholder in B Sky B er , was selling shares , we would obviously consider er , whether we went up from our present sixteen percent er , to twenty percent but it would depend on the circumstances at the time . |
| 26 | For example , an asset such as land would not normally attract a depreciation charge but it would result in principal charges to revenue if it was financed by loan . |
| 27 | It might be short on intrigue and backstabbing but it would move at a cracking pace . |
| 28 | Without any data being available on this fish as yet , it is difficult to say what the adult size might be , but it would appear to be about 12cm . |
| 29 | Another Kat-Zet usage , widely current , used in many forms : it sounds like smistig , but it would appear to be a conflation of two German substantives , Schmutzstück and Schmuckstück , ‘ garbage ’ and ‘ jewel ’ . |
| 30 | It 's very small , only just room for the bunk , but it would do for a time . |