Example sentences of "but surely [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But surely a couple of photos must tell the story one way or the other ? |
| 2 | Yes , but surely a couple of million 's enough for anybody . |
| 3 | One admires unions backing their players , but surely a responsibility to the country and to rugby in general should come first . |
| 4 | But surely the size of that house , you 've probably got people with at least two , if not three cars probably . |
| 5 | But surely the rest of us can ask that some responsible members of the self-styled Gay community will condemn such excesses . |
| 6 | Slowly but surely the mass of bodies was yielding … soon it would be forced out into the drawing-room like the cork out of a bottle of champagne . |
| 7 | But surely the activity of a postman in such a void would be utterly futile and valueless . |
| 8 | There was not enough action and they were just too predictable , that they simply did not scare me but surely the point of a horror book is to scare you ? |
| 9 | But surely the aim of all communists is to overthrow capitalism and eliminate all class distinctions rather than working round them ? |
| 10 | if he had been chasing his flying tent up from the machair on the west of the island , he might have got up as far as the bogland near the lochan , but surely the light from my cottage would not be visible until he had followed the road downhill past the curve and almost into Otters ' Bay . |
| 11 | Alright he was carrying an injury but surely the onus of the team should not rest on a single player — and besides what was he doing for the first 80 minutes on Saturday . |
| 12 | But surely the job of the juror is to assess the credibility of the witness in the box . |
| 13 | But surely the Department of Transport would have looked into this ? |