Example sentences of "[noun pl] but [pron] [vb mod] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a good person to be in the band in the early days but he might have held them back later on because he is not as good a drummer as Simon , and that 's putting it mildly . |
| 2 | Not only will he be one of the few Democrats to win the presidency in the past 50 years but he will have humiliated an incumbent President in the process . |
| 3 | Before the war at a luncheon party like this people would have said precisely the same things but they would have sounded different , because in those days they were accompanied by a sort of humming noise , not articulate , but musical , exciting , which changed the value of the words themselves … |
| 4 | You may not be able to reconcile differences but you will have gained further insights into the perceptions that others have of the school and maintained the personal caring touch ; and the discussion may well encourage you to take another look at your policy for encouraging complaints . |
| 5 | ‘ There was no loss to the stores but it could have caused a few problems . ’ |
| 6 | They 're trying to get somewhere now with the police but it could have happened anywhere ! |
| 7 | Of course it was one of their earliest records but I should have realised that they were different . |
| 8 | Wales had all those great backs but they could have done nothing without their forwards . |