Example sentences of "but it would [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was not earning nearly enough for a piano , however modestly priced , but it would cost less than I could raise from one of the famille rose vases I had brought from the house in Park Terrace . |
| 2 | There are stories of that event also , but it would make this too lengthy . |
| 3 | He could n't know how tempting the thought of laying down her burden was , but it would mean admitting guilt where there was none — to a man who would as soon see her sink as swim . |
| 4 | Civil libertarians would be up in arms but it would mean fewer animals whose final romp is into a killing-room . |
| 5 | This would solve many of the party 's difficulties inherited from the past , but it would do little to settle the pressing problems of the present and future . |
| 6 | It was a plain , basic , rock-bottom hatchback , but it would do fine for the distance and had the extra advantage of childproof locks on the rear doors . |
| 7 | But it would have much more difficulty in applying those new rules retrospectively . |
| 8 | She did n't mind but it would put more pressure on her schedule . |
| 9 | Dr Linebaugh has discovered that around 40 per cent of those hanged at Tyburn in the middle years of the eighteenth century had completed apprenticeships and a further 20 per cent had at least begun one ( see pp. 230 – 1 ) Even in London , the greatest centre of artisan manufacture , not all apprenticeships led to a skilled trade — the unfortunate climbing chimney boys for example — but it would seem reasonable to suggest that around half of the working men of the capital were to some degree skilled , in the sense of selling specialised labour . |
| 10 | Grandmothers are remembered twice as often as grandfathers — principally because they survived longer ; but it would seem that physical survival coincides here with salience in the memory . |
| 11 | Kinetics is still a young science but it would seem that human ability to exert conscious control over body language is less easy than with verbal communication and most people , at times , are aware of sending contradictory messages . |
| 12 | can not be denied , but it would seem that man 's instinctive awareness of his mastery of his own destiny , is influenced by an equally instinctive awareness that he can not peacefully and successfully control that destiny unless he can locate , or himself create some supreme form of guiding influence which is recognised by all . |
| 13 | No effort or trouble , but it would become irritating in time . |
| 14 | That is , the motivating biological metaphor of the Prisoners ' Dilemma generates a transition rule that is simple , but it would look horrendous if expressed in canonical cellular automata terms . |
| 15 | But it would look bad . |
| 16 | An even greater rise of 5–7 metres is possible if the ice sheet of west Antarctica melted but it would take two or three centuries to do so . |
| 17 | But it would take 10 to 20 years to convert every dwelling . |
| 18 | But it would take many years before Nordhausen became a green town , many years before it could even start to ease back on the pollution it coughed on to its inhabitants and the surrounds in which they existed . |
| 19 | I 'm quite happy to go into that , we have all the information here , we can do it but it would take some time I suspect . |
| 20 | Digital Equipment Corp buried a little zinger in its ‘ Unified Unix ’ briefing papers last month : ‘ Given the recent plans for Novell Inc to acquire Unix System Laboratories Inc , ’ it writes , ‘ Digital believes OSF/1 is the only true open Unix technology in existence ’ — well , but it would say that , would n't it . |
| 21 | That would be more expensive per aircraft , certainly , but it would recognise two realities . |
| 22 | ‘ It would be no trouble for us , maybe , but it 'd trouble those gorgios who pass along the road and they 'd start complaining about us . |