Example sentences of "but it [vb mod] [not/n't] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , syntactic analysis is always carried out but it may not be used in the interpretation of any particular sentence . |
| 2 | But it may not be appreciated that Miller 's work provided the foundation for later encyclopaedic horticultural works ( see William Stearn , Chapter 20 ) and the ‘ bright beam of gardening ’ , of which John Rogers wrote in 1839 , has continued to shine for two centuries . |
| 3 | This way they would be alerted to Luke 's infidelity , but it would n't be forced on them . |
| 4 | Er we could refuse to buy their electricity off them I suppose but it would n't be have much affect . |
| 5 | An extra £5 million would be brought forward from next year to offset the extra cost , but it would not be made up next year . |
| 6 | Most of the Colleges are quite extensively engaged in activities other than teacher education , their viability would be disturbed but it would not be destroyed . |
| 7 | That wildfire feeling might have got a hold a month back , but it would not be allowed to do so again . |
| 8 | But it would not be held that God revealed God 's self to a particular people , or through a particular person , in a certain time in history . |
| 9 | Public-sector wages and payments would be made in the new currency , but it would not be backed by hard currency and international recognition , unlike the future Latvian currency , the lats . |
| 10 | Eliot 's linking of the savage and the city would never again be as prominent as in Sweeney Agonistes , but it would not be abandoned . |
| 11 | ‘ But it wo n't be imposed on anybody because the patient 's view remains paramount . ’ |
| 12 | but it wo n't be read by the cons it 'll be read by the screws |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | to Majorca for a week but it wo n't be to laze around it 's for it 's for walking . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't know how strong the Bridge is , but it ca n't be designed to absorb this much stress . ’ |
| 20 | The IRA may have been defeated at the ballot box , but it ca n't be accused of not trying . |
| 21 | But it ca n't be managed in this country cos nobody 's got the expertise of the management of these sort of hotels . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ we did mean to live together , of course , but it ca n't be helped . |
| 25 | I 'm sorry to put you to any inconvenience , but it ca n't be helped . |
| 26 | ‘ But it ca n't be helped , ’ she added brightly . |
| 27 | ‘ I shall probably have to do this year again , but it ca n't be helped . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | But it should n't be allowed , the hammerin' . ’ |
| 30 | There is some truth in this argument , but it should not be pushed too far . |