Example sentences of "but it would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | There was nothing wrong with the name , but it would embarrass Frankie , so small and thin for his age , to call his own mother ‘ Smallfry ’ . |
| 3 | But it would change … |
| 4 | It 's a fantastic notion , but it would explain everything . |
| 5 | It would take longer to put together but it would endure . ’ |
| 6 | By the end of two weeks , Branson had the following locked firmly in his mind : the airline would not be an all business-class service — but it would combine an economy section with a first-class section at business-class prices . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She would like some sort of mobile communication to alert police , well it 's an interesting area , but it would cost a fortune to provide mobile phones |
| 9 | But it would show them that I 'm ambitious-enterprising , young and independently minded . ’ |
| 10 | It was thoughtful of you , but it would choke me . ’ |
| 11 | There was ketchup on my trench coat , but it would wash off in time . |
| 12 | But it would depend very much on you getting hold of the relevant minister-it would probably almost inevitably be your own secretary of state- and saying , ‘ Look we really must have a situation where there is a discussion about the Falklands . ’ |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | That was not a convenient shape to go into an attaché case but it would fit very snugly into |
| 17 | ‘ But it would go really fast , would n't it ? ’ |
| 18 | I do not suggest that to restore benefit to 16 to 18-year-olds would solve this problem overnight , but it would go far down the road to alleviating this problem which surely must be unacceptable in 1993 . |
| 19 | It might be short on intrigue and backstabbing but it would move at a cracking pace . |
| 20 | Not only would winning the order mean around some £60 million worth of work a year for the next decade for Ferranti , but it would give a successful bidder or partner for Ferranti access to crucial next-generation radar technology . |
| 21 | Not only would winning the order mean around some £60 million worth of work a year for the next decade for Ferranti , but it would give a successful bidder or partner for Ferranti access to crucial next-generation radar technology . |
| 22 | But it would give them much-needed practice in monitoring lower limits in future . |
| 23 | We have a different role , but nevertheless and even , an important one is perhaps in even looking further ahead than the Emergency Planning and therefore I would support er in being brief I would support very much erm Mr 's er motion if you can call it a motion which has been seconded and I hope that other members will will agree that erm we can pass this on to the Chief Executive who obviously will be doing this in any case , but it would give er a a an added er measure if you like er I 'm talking in terms of member involvement in pressing for er a wider look of what has happened after this sad flood has been dealt with . |
| 24 | But it would give you affect . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | His presence froze the decay , but it would start again when he followed Anne into the tunnel . |
| 28 | Erm but it would affect the people you deal with . |
| 29 | With up to 8Mb on the motherboard there probably is n't any need for expansion if the machine is used solely as a network station , but it would 've been nice to find a PCMCIA slot for something like a modem . |
| 30 | I ca n't say what it would 've been , you know what the outcome would 've been but it would 've been different . |