Example sentences of "but it [vb mod] [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bogwood is semi-fossilised , and should not contain harmful substances , but it may stain the water dark brown . |
| 2 | This method of progression is unsettling enough to make some riders seasick , but it may hold the key to the beast 's endurance . |
| 3 | On a large number of matches the extra few fish that this may put in their net will not make any difference between winning or losing , but it may affect the deficit or margin by which they win or lose . |
| 4 | It wo n't cut your premiums but it may cut the risk of theft . |
| 5 | This will not stop you catching the smaller fish but it may swing the odds in your favour of selecting one or two of the larger fish . |
| 6 | If K is large , then the algorithm will ’ jump to conclusions ’ quickly , but it may overshoot the optimum weights . |
| 7 | For those publications which use colour , transparencies can usually be accepted from 33mm upwards , but it may help the magazine if plate sizes are agreed before the pictures are taken . |
| 8 | In many ways 1993 marks the end of this pattern , but it may take the whole of the year to do so . |
| 9 | If the horse suddenly starts bucking when we ride it , and we jump off and swat it with a cane ; the horse will remember , but it may remember the wrong thing . |
| 10 | If you ca n't find the pattern you want in a vinyl , you can protect paper wallcoverings with a polyurethane varnish , but it may yellow the pattern slightly . |
| 11 | That would probably do little to bring so-called advances on royalties back to a more sensible level , but it might give the publisher some added stability , and therefore a greater incentive to put sustained effort into an author 's career . |
| 12 | But it might influence the quantities of grapes or strawberries consumed , for instance . |
| 13 | The antihistamine would have little value , but it might slow the reaction marginally until her medical kit or the allergy kit arrived . |
| 14 | The second shot would do no damage , but it might persuade the Frenchmen that there was a group of enemy in front of them . |
| 15 | Maybe you do n't want to but it 'll keep the wind off you , and it keeps raining . |
| 16 | Well it must have been a tall , a long cat and a low door but it would lift the knocker and knock its way in |
| 17 | But it would prevent the press from publishing calumnies which can not be answered , as in the Beck case , sometimes until weeks or even months after the allegation is made in the public arena of a court . |
| 18 | It 'd add to the lengthiness of the business of cataloguing , but it would enrich the archive 's use , I think , increase its importance as a socio-historical source . |
| 19 | Erm but it would affect the people you deal with . |
| 20 | But it would eat the other fish ! ’ |
| 21 | But it would leave the Government exposed to the full force of house-buyers ' fury , with no international excuse for forcing an increase in mortgage rates that would probably have occurred anyway . |
| 22 | The development of the law of peace along these lines would not be a return to the acceptance of the legality of armed conflict as an instrument of national policy , but it would involve the articulation of a theory of the just war , however dangerous this may seem . |
| 23 | This need not reduce the rigour of the professional disciplines demanded , but it would make the qualifications less technical and inward-looking . |
| 24 | Such legalisation would not magically dispense with the need for policemen , but it would make the needed policing more manageable . |
| 25 | The official killing iron was heavier than she was used to , but it would do the job . |
| 26 | But it would complicate the withdrawal , with three thousand men to get back across that ford , instead of one-third of that number . |
| 27 | The unexpected news affected them all in some way , but it would have the greatest impact upon Seb 's life . |
| 28 | It too , in a sense , is a potential person but it would seem the act of a fanatic to insist that it has a right to life . |
| 29 | The repair did n't look much , but it would keep the rain out . |
| 30 | But it would undermine the essential certainty of an approach which sees the abolition of the GLC as an integral part of an attack on local autonomy . |