Example sentences of "but [modal v] [pron] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As in the previous areas discussed , objects may not merely be used to refer to a given social group , but may themselves be constitutive of a certain social relation . |
| 2 | We know it is foolish to be too trusting of other people , but may we be prepared to take risks sometimes and give other people a chance to get close to us . |
| 3 | We all like to save money but should we be governed by cost alone ? |
| 4 | But should there be limits ? |
| 5 | But should it be that anyone ever wished to posit that I have attained at least a little of that crucial quality of ‘ dignity ’ in the course of my career , such a person may wish to be directed towards that conference of March 1923 as representing the moment when I first demonstrated I might have a capacity for such a quality . |
| 6 | Presumably I 'll have to transfer them to a separate tank first , but should it be planted or bare ? |
| 7 | Deveraugh was way out of line , but might there be some substance in what he was saying ? |
| 8 | It was not publishable as it stood , said Michael , but might it be of interest to me ? |
| 9 | ‘ Might it be , I 'm only hazarding a guess , you realize that , but might it be that they want you to get them out here again ? ’ |
| 10 | [ National implications but could we be a leader ? ] |
| 11 | And the words ‘ peace , peace , peace ’ came to her , as if they were ( but could they be ? ) part of an old prayer , perhaps a prayer which her mother had uttered over her before she could speak . |
| 12 | We know that niello is a metal sulphide , made by heating metal filings with sulphur , but could there be a continuity of tradition amongst the metalworkers of cultures so widely separated by time and geography ? |
| 13 | " But could there be more cold blooded murder " than the indiscriminate sinking of merchant ships which had already cost 14,000 British seamen their lives ? |
| 14 | That test is vague , but could it be improved upon in this context ? |
| 15 | Detinue lay where a man was in possession of another 's goods and refused to give them up but could it be said that such a mere refusal was a positive act ? |
| 16 | In early ethnic models of settlement origin it was assumed that this was a Celtic pattern of settlement , but could it be that this pattern in fact represents the oldest arrangements in the landscape ? |
| 17 | Without revealing the reason why they are rowing , but could it be that her actor husband is a Glen-man and she is ‘ rubbing it in ’ by wearing the tee-shirt around the house to celebrate Linfield winning the Irish League Championship this season ! |
| 18 | But could it be worse than this ? ’ |
| 19 | But need she be less well-off ? |
| 20 | But need it be ? |
| 21 | But would anyone be troubled by it ? |
| 22 | But would she be compliant ? |
| 23 | But would there be anyone against . |
| 24 | A good idea , but would it be delivered ? |
| 25 | She was supposed to be pregnant and perhaps Scotland might still get its heir but would it be a male prince and who would protect him over the coming years ? |
| 26 | No doubt an account of a hostel for the homeless would be audacious and arresting , but would it be an authentic scenario of life lived on the edge of ordinary extremity ? |
| 27 | Of course , we 're all women here tonight , th , there are men carers as well , but would it be fair to say that the bulk of care responsibility falls on women or or is that is that unfair ? |
| 28 | ‘ But would it be a fair contest ? ’ |
| 29 | But would it be the last ? |
| 30 | But would it be within the spirit of the manifesto to murmur , read my lips , no more direct taxes ? |