Example sentences of "but [pers pn] can [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes … but I can not pretend that it is n't a family disaster . |
| 2 | We remained on first-name terms , they became my patients , but I can not say that there was any particular relationship between us . ’ |
| 3 | This caused disquiet amongst Colonial officials and prompted Creech Jones , the Colonial Secretary in the later years of the Labour government , to circulate a memorandum to the Cabinet in early 1947 in which he said : ‘ I know full well how important it is that our overseas payments should be kept as low as they possibly can be , but I can not believe that this justifies a course which is contrary to our declared policy in regard both to Colonial and to commercial matters and contrary also to the policy which has long been pursued by the Labour Party . ’ |
| 4 | Admittedly , the thought-processes of anyone still undecided which way to vote on Thursday must be mysterious or vestigial : but I can not believe that such nonsense will have the slightest effect on the result of the election . |
| 5 | No-one can deny that being pretty helps — no female on breakfast television would have a career otherwise — but I can not believe that we are turning back to the dark days when it was deemed the most important thing of all . |
| 6 | Both books talk of this power as being abnormal , but I can not believe that people have the power to just FLEX and move an object . |
| 7 | Special elastic strips can be bought nowadays for this method , but I can not see that they are any improvement on our elastic bands ! |
| 8 | But I can not deny that the literature chapter takes for granted major assumptions about the value of great literature in the curriculum , and does not engage with the many recent books which have challenged this belief ( for example , Brian Doyle 's English and Englishness [ 1989 ] ) . |
| 9 | I like solitude on the mountains and avoid crowds where I can , but I can truthfully say that Reek Sunday was a unique experience . |
| 10 | But I can honestly say that I never worry about him now . |
| 11 | Erm Eric in , in Manchester from where he comes is extremely well known obviously within the G M B but his record he 's one of the individuals in the trade union movement that I think are becoming somewhat of a rarity these days I know that many of us when we first started in the movement were very easily able , and , and very relaxed about combining trade union and political activities together but of course as time goes on and , you do tend to become more involved in the one and the other , because of course it 's all time-consuming but I can honestly say that in Eric 's case he 's never deviated one iota from his commitment both to the trade union , this union in particular , and to the Party never deviated at all . |
| 12 | I usually look forward to Family Day , but I can honestly say that this year I 'm beginning to dread it , ’ said Rachel , then , picking up a pile of records , she said , ‘ This wo n't do , we must get on , otherwise we 'll never finish these medicals . ’ |
| 13 | I , I used to drive Sheena , but I can safely say that I live on the A seventy seven , aggression is equally as bad as drinking driving , because you see it happening on that road every day , aggression they cut out they cut in , you do n't know where their coming from , er at least a drunken driver tries to go straight and make 's the mistake |
| 14 | I know , he might still come in and collect it on Wednesday , but you can just say that you left it home because we do n't have English that day now . |
| 15 | The gradient is the tan of the angle , but you can only read that off the graph if you 've got the same units . |
| 16 | Also , I am a bit older than the rest of you , but you can perhaps understand that I do n't want to drop dead without a proper and public recantation . |
| 17 | She 's supportable at home , but she can never remember that people have been to see her , so she 's always lonely . ’ |
| 18 | But we can not forget that in fabliau terms the wife of the Shipman 's Tale can be credited as a successful trickster ; in so far as the Shipman 's Tale does develop an antifeminist perspective in the ways suggested above , it enhances the antifeminist possibilities of a genre that is characteristically only playfully antifeminist . |
| 19 | But we can not assume that this is always the case . |
| 20 | But we can not accept that that is Tess 's fault , and should happen to her . |
| 21 | But we can confidently assume that there are no languages where part of an M-tense system is not realized somewhere in time-adverbials or the like , not to mention the implicit assumption of M-present if no further specification is provided ( Lyons , 1977a : 686 ) . |
| 22 | But we can now see that it is n't like that at all . |
| 23 | This is probably true ; but we can now see that we must not interpret this word magic too uncritically . |
| 24 | But we can now see that the apocalyptic interpretation of history emerged from the confrontation with the Greeks about 165 B.C. If II Maccabees reveals a true aspect of the activities of Antiochus IV by stressing the cooperation of Hellenizing Jews , this is something less than the whole truth . |
| 25 | Many of our friends thought us too independent and adventurous to leave the shores of old England , and thus plunge into foreign countries not beneath Victoria 's sway , with no protecting relatives , but we can only say that we hope this will not be our last excursion of this kind . |
| 26 | An ideal utilitarian like Moore may claim to have the moral insight that promise keeping is only right or obligatory , where one can not do better or as well by breaking the promise ( taking general account of effects on human trust into account ) but he can not claim that this insight is merely into how words are properly used . |
| 27 | But it can then happen that these relations become a norm , from which other periods are interpreted or even , by contrast , judged . |