Example sentences of "but it [modal v] [adv] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | but it wo n't be read by the cons it 'll be read by the screws |
| 32 | But it wo n't be arriving there until they get this Well they have the C D ROM , they just have n't got it up and running . |
| 33 | to Majorca for a week but it wo n't be to laze around it 's for it 's for walking . |
| 34 | But the er but it ca n't be done on modern alarms now because the bell boxes they use are anti-foam and they probably have two or three alarm |
| 35 | Said Mr Costain : ‘ We would have liked to build a replacement with a wooden verandah and steps , but it ca n't be done in this day and age , so we had to build a concrete one like Fort Knox . ’ |
| 36 | The draft for this is almost complete but it ca n't be finalised until the costs of the revised programme have been agreed for each of the participating nations . |
| 37 | But it ca n't be denied that in the days following the concert — which was seen by one-and-a-half billion people all over the world groups watched their LPs , new and old , surge healthily up the charts , taking their bank balances to new heights . |
| 38 | ‘ I do n't know how strong the Bridge is , but it ca n't be designed to absorb this much stress . ’ |
| 39 | The IRA may have been defeated at the ballot box , but it ca n't be accused of not trying . |
| 40 | But it ca n't be managed in this country cos nobody 's got the expertise of the management of these sort of hotels . |
| 41 | Volume and other discounts up to 20% of the single unit purchase price can be combined with the promotion , but it ca n't be combined with special bids . |
| 42 | The train pulled in at her station and Lee got herself out into the street , touching too many people , climbing ugly grey stairs , looking at posters advertising Tampax , warning about Aids , promising relief in the Bahamas , selling newspapers , selling theatre tickets , selling life , she thought , but it ca n't be bought , not really , it 's within . |
| 43 | ‘ we did mean to live together , of course , but it ca n't be helped . |
| 44 | I 'm sorry to put you to any inconvenience , but it ca n't be helped . |
| 45 | ‘ But it ca n't be helped , ’ she added brightly . |
| 46 | ‘ I shall probably have to do this year again , but it ca n't be helped . |
| 47 | That there was a pattern for her in Lermontov 's novel is conceivable : but it ca n't be claimed that it fits her with exactitude , or that it provides an explanation of her conduct . |
| 48 | But it should n't be allowed , the hammerin' . ’ |
| 49 | It is , of course , clear that the Report does not speak on behalf of working-class culture , but it should also be noted that it distances itself from the culture of the middle class ( cf. 236/256–7 ) . |
| 50 | This is important because specific mechanisms have since been developed for subsidizing private operations in the inner area , but it should also be noted that all inner-area housing sites were already designated as housing land and there were no ‘ change of use ’ profits to be made on them . |
| 51 | Much of what I have said here is relevant to the second methodological phase ( classification ) , but it should also be noted that we do not make prior classification of social levels of language in the way that many other urban dialectologists do . |
| 52 | But it should also be emphasised that the limitations on peripheral leverage are severe . |
| 53 | But it should also be said that some elements of this description of mine could be taken to characterise the activity , sometimes ominous enough in its human implications , of all imaginative writers , however remote they may be from the dualistic confederacy . |
| 54 | But it should also be mentioned that Sultan Qaboos overthrew his own father and needed the military support of the Shah and the SAS to defend himself against those of his countrymen not recognizing the benefits of his traditional Arab-Islamic leadership . |
| 55 | His sonorous voice and deliberate utterance may to a great extent account for this but it should also be remarked that as Highbury Quadrant was the first church to introduce the Electrophone , perfection has been probably acquired by long practice in the details requisite to success . ’ |
| 56 | This is of course very much smaller than the comparative figure for the previous year of £321,715 , but it should also be looked at in the context of the budget for 1991–92 which had predicted a loss of £117,000 . |
| 57 | Although no specific percentages were mentioned in the Act , the government had originally intended that the whole of the national curriculum should occupy 70 per cent of the timetable ; but it should also be remembered that religious education has been mandatory since 1944 and remains so . |
| 58 | There is some truth in this argument , but it should not be pushed too far . |
| 59 | But it should not be built somewhere simply because a Bill is lying on the table . |
| 60 | Unanimity was less marked in the scramble for office after Asquith 's departure ; " the three Cs " , Curzon , Chamberlain and Cecil , managed to keep official party interests to the fore by ensuring that Curzon rather than Carson should join the war cabinet — disloyalty might be useful but it should not be seen to pay . |