Example sentences of "but [pron] [modal v] be [adv] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I 'll be back one of these days , and we 'll have a slap-up meal together ( N0T on the old X's , I promise ! ) |
| 2 | ‘ But she must be nearly forty , ’ I said . |
| 3 | He is optimistic , naturally , on the basis of sales growth in the earlier stores , but there will be only one new store in the US this year . |
| 4 | But there could be only one winner , in 1985 as in 1919 . |
| 5 | I forget how many golf courses there are in my constituency , but there must be about 10 . |
| 6 | At the end of last year , some 6,400 staff were employed in manufacturing-related activities , but there should be about 1,100 fewer by December 1993 . |