Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb mod] [art] " in BNC.

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1 But you will no doubt agree that the very best staff plans are those which give clear margins of error to allow for those days when an employee is ill or for one reason or another below par .
2 There is no question at all that he meant any harm ; but you will no doubt appreciate how uncomfortable a situation this was for me .
3 But you will no doubt also understand what I mean when I say it is not at all easy to define just what this quality is .
4 I will say this Mr chairman Newark district council is much more appreciative of you ca n't put but you could the Notts county council one .
5 But there will no chance of more dialogue for some time .
6 Ben may not have been much of a theatre-goer , but he would no doubt have been fascinated by one unexpected visit in the June of 1801 :
7 Now Sammy was a character in himself he was a bachelor and his wi his sister was Fanny the elocutionist er and , and er there the women used to , to go into old Sammy 's shop on a Friday night simply to be entertained by all the wisecracks and nonsense that used to go on in there , and somebody would say I suppose you 're off this weekend and he 'd say yes I 'm off to my little widow in Wales , he had n't got a little widow in Wales at all now but it would the start of the conversation going .
8 But what might the reasons be for saying such a thing ?
9 But what would the attitude of others be ?
10 But what would the interpretation be if that allegorical answer were not printed for all to see ?
11 These were statistical norms , but what would the post-war housing layouts actually look like ?
12 But what would the gradient be there , and how would we find it ?
13 She even imagined she saw Marc in the audience one night , his face just a pale blur beyond the footlights with all the others , but what would the jet-setting Marc Vila be doing in Yorkshire ?
14 the new craft looks good and sails good … but what will the boating world make of it …
15 But what can a single
16 But what can the Greens do , if elected ?
17 But what could a kid know about such goings-on as were chronicled in the pages she had read ?
18 But what could an Englishwoman we had never met do for us ?
19 But what should a first-class playground offer ?
20 But what must the hypocritical collusion of government officials in this illegal activity have done to the way corporate officials regard laws against corporate behaviour more generally ?
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