Example sentences of "but it can [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was in a shop and some fella said : ‘ She should have had her eye on him ’ but it can just happen in seconds . ’ |
| 2 | I was in a shop and some fella said ‘ she should have had her eye on him ’ but it can just happen in seconds ' Sheena Heffing |
| 3 | It can lead people to linking arms at Blackpool and , depending on whether it 's the Labour Party Conference or the annual darts team binge singing The Red Flag or the Okie Cokie but it can also lead to a group of skins bunging bricks through a Pakistani 's shop window . |
| 4 | Group travel can relieve some of these pressures but it can also result in ‘ ganging up ’ , for the silliest of reasons . |
| 5 | But it can also strike on the potential for tension between bringing out individuality and creating conformity . |
| 6 | Coaching can be a great help — but it can also get in the way , for slavishly following a pedantic teacher can produce very strange results , with the candidate ending up trying to sound like someone he or she is n't . |
| 7 | The rule is used basically in tort , but it can also apply in contract ( Chapman v Ellesmere [ 1932 ] 2 KB 431 ) . |
| 8 | but it can also come under Electricity Board if it 's a failure of the electricity . |
| 9 | It is usually simplest if a washing machine can go next to the sink , but it can easily fit in other places . |
| 10 | This cake is so moist that you do n't really need a frosting , but it can only enhanced with cream cheese frosting ( see below ) . |
| 11 | And the only thing that seems to stand in the way of doing anything commercially sensible with County Farms is that every time we deal with it , somebody says , ah , but it can only exist as an entity , let's keep it as that , let's pass it on to a trust , let's safeguard it , let's do this and that . |
| 12 | The finance director of one of the companies says he believes that the productivity increases attributable to IT are coming to an end : ‘ Auditors are getting more productive — but it can only go to a certain level . ’ |
| 13 | A body corporate may be a member of the committee ( r 6.150(3) ) but it can only act through a representative duly authorised in accordance with r 6.156 . |
| 14 | The name of the Birmingham Six may haunt the British legal system , but it can always gloat about one of its greatest triumphs , the case of a notorious bunch of Scottish footballers who go by the name of The Copenhagen Five . |