Example sentences of "but let [pers pn] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One can sympathise with owners of great houses , faced with tax and running costs , but let them not think that furnishings of the standing of Kent 's at Houghton can simply be dispensed with as ‘ surplus to requirements ’ and that their loss from the house would not in future be regretted . |
| 2 | Of course , there may be those who would argue that the entrenchment of the middle ground in power would be a good thing that would lead to moderate government and stable policies , but let them not argue that it would also be fair or would give the majority of people what they wanted of government . |
| 3 | But let me just tell you this ; self-pity will destroy you far more assuredly then Ryan could ever have done . ’ |
| 4 | But let me just tell you we it 's all counted , it 's all written down . |
| 5 | Erm in fact a similar effect happens , I 'll be mentioning this in the lecture but let me just mention it now . |
| 6 | erm I 'm conscious of the fact that I 've been going on for perhaps too long and I may not have said quite enough about Darwin , but let me just finish by saying this that it 's not possible today , I believe , to discuss any important problem in biology without Darwin 's thought being absolutely central to what you 're saying all the time . |
| 7 | Well you 've made this study and you 've written a book , Policies for Educational Accountability I think it 's called , which is just recently come out , and I 'm sure that will be a , a very worthwhile contribution , but let me just ask you a personal questions . |
| 8 | Er I will I will hand over but let me just say this that my instinct is that it a policy expressed in the way you 've you 've suggested is just superfluous because all you 're doing is describing in in a po in upper case letters , the situation as it is and that that my answer is that it would that there would be no need for such a it would be gratuitously ap it 's an unnecessary statement . |
| 9 | Forgive me I do n't want to go back that far , but , but let me just put the point you 've made to Professor Hoskins . |
| 10 | But let me just deal with labour and plant at the minute and we 'll see , we can do a similar thing . |
| 11 | If you read this end to end Ron I 'd be very grateful but let me just point out to you we 've agreed twenty eighth , if you bring it forward great . |
| 12 | Let me just , le I 'm not really a , I 'm not really a very numerate political scientist but let me just run some numbers by you to give you an idea of the escalation of the change . |
| 13 | There was … but let me not digress . |
| 14 | It was a green scarf but let me quickly say that it was bereft of religious significance . |
| 15 | But let us also remember that the opposition have an obligation to stay behind the off-side line . |
| 16 | But let us also remember that Baron Cuvier , perhaps the greatest protagonist of catastrophism in its earlier form , worked on the placid , untectonised sediments of Montmartre and the environs of Paris . |
| 17 | BUT Let us not forget Let us not Oh , let's … ? |
| 18 | I believe the readers ads fulfil a necessary part of the market , but let us not forget our local and national dealers . |
| 19 | It 's great to be instantly famous — and that 's how A&M makes them feel — but let us not forget what the company 's really interested in . |
| 20 | But let us not forget the reputation for compassion in which Britain still leads the world … ’ |
| 21 | But let us not forget that he gave his life in an act of selfless devotion to the race . |
| 22 | It is only right that we should analyse and debate the internal workings of the trade and its infrastructure , but let us not forget who pays our wages — the consumer . |
| 23 | I appreciate the arguments that go on nowadays , but let us not forget that the old crossings were not suitable for the disabled , which is why , in the case to which I am referring , it seemed unnecessary for the authority to insist on a ramp being built . |
| 24 | ‘ But let us not forget that when most of us were children Bradford and Leicester were themselves Darlingtons , recognisably a part of the same country as ours . ’ |
| 25 | But let us not stop here in our excoriations . |
| 26 | By all means let us seek to prevent congenital abnormalities , but let us not betray our Hippocratic tradition in the process . |
| 27 | ‘ But let us not darken our hearts by imagining the trial of their gentle loyalty in the Dark Tower . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , thanks , ’ I said , ‘ for the kind words , Daisy , but let us not kid ourselves . |
| 29 | Health promotion has , rightly , moved away from the traditional approach , but let us not dismiss health education fully until it has been properly implemented , let alone evaluated . |
| 30 | I do not suggest that , just because Britain is less violent and less prone to crime than most other west European countries , that diminishes the necessity to concentrate on the picture at home , but let us not frighten people unnecessarily by comparisons with the rest of Europe and the United States . |