Example sentences of "but they [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There would then be other means however for us to pursue our our concerns that have n't we know er are moving into a future speculative situation , but if they 're not taken up we have other means of pursuing those , but they would n't affect the the conformity issue . |
| 2 | The police would go through the motions , but they would n't make a meal of it . |
| 3 | But they would n't walk a few yards into the police station and tell anybody . |
| 4 | Oh it is now yes , you 've got , I mean you 've got the service now have n't you and erm , but I like at St Margaret 's hospital I 'd been , I had been , I went in there to have my last boy , but they 're very , very good there they were , I 've not been in , I 've been in , I 've had treatment here for my hip and that up at Harlow but they would n't do the operation because of my blood clotting you see , so therefore I 've got to grin and bear it , I 've had eight years of it , I could n't walk for six months , but now I struggle and get around as I say with a couple of sticks I get round |
| 5 | But they would not cure the endemic unemployment problem . |
| 6 | But they would not countenance the replacement of the pro-Soviet Marxist regime in Afghanistan by a regime that proclaimed itself ‘ neither East nor West ’ in a fashion similar to the Iranian theocracy . |
| 7 | It would not , he admitted , be hard to find players who were ‘ fairly good ’ , but they would not strengthen the team : nothing but the best would do . |
| 8 | But they would also make a more damning inquiry : ‘ If the Labour Party does not believe in democratic socialism , what is the Labour Party for ? ’ |
| 9 | People would marvel at his cleverness , but they would never understand the person beneath it . |
| 10 | Natural fibres such as silk and wool do n't retain perspiration smells , and are the best insulators , but they may not take the moisture away after exercise . |
| 11 | The details of the composition of a commercial plastic are commonly kept secret but they may nevertheless play a vital part in determining its properties . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll go to his bloody school , but they wo n't make an Englishman out of me . ’ |
| 13 | Also at his star-studded birthday party , which cost £500,000 , were his two sisters , aged 10 and 11 — but they wo n't inherit a penny of their parents ' fortune . |
| 14 | Those people are in a housing misery situation , and people will write papers and dossiers about it — but they wo n't get the repairs done . |
| 15 | But they wo n't get the holder in ; course security was stepped up after another fraud 10 years ago . |
| 16 | It 's the price of success , I have come to realise , but they wo n't appreciate the headline . |
| 17 | If you do n't have any of these though , you can still enjoy watching the videos , but they wo n't have the sound to go with them . |
| 18 | another mistake in the film was to suggest that in a a short franchise , say of seven years they would need a great deal of working capital , but they wo n't need a great deal of working capital or or share capital , they will actually be running a business where they get subsidy , because if er they 're involving socially necessary lines , like commuter lines , or or rural lines , then we 've made it very clear er that the taxpayers subsidy will continue , because these are loss making businesses , they will be bid they will bid for subsidy , and they will continue to get that subsidy , so they will have the flow of whatever income they can increase , in the passenger franchise , plus the subsidy , plus , and this is a very important point in what we 're doing in the restructuring of British Rail , you see , nobody up till now has said that British Rail is perfect , everyone acknowledges that there are big improvements to be made , the way we 're structuring it will get those improvements because the smaller franchises , not the great big monolithic nationalized industry , the smaller units , ha will be able to identify much more clearly where they can make the savings and where they can increase the revenue . |
| 19 | But they wo n't need a bath or anything . |
| 20 | So far as possible the particulars of the charge shall be stated in simple terms , but they shall also show the precise offence in law with which he is charged . |
| 21 | Thus they were using important , " real world " information for their project but they might well use the same source and information later in their adult lives . |
| 22 | But they 'll also do a meal for four in your own home . |
| 23 | But they ca n't match the savage surf at Waimea Bay . |
| 24 | ‘ We ca n't match them at that but they ca n't match the way we play . |
| 25 | But they ca n't fix the rain . |
| 26 | The mania for forming industry consortia is getting so out of hand that a group of leading manufacturers , software developers and vendors are coming together to make some sense of it and eliminate duplicated effort by creating a single consortium to which everyone will be invited to belong : there is no confirmation of suggestions that the idea was the first initiative from new IBM Corp chief Louis Gerstner , who accedes to the top job today , but we hear that the army of companies is still bogged down arguing about what to call the thing — the best they 've dreamed up so far is the Consortium for Object-oriented Methods and Programming for the Unix Terminal and Enterprise-wide Recasting of Interactive Networked Database Undertakings with Software Transitioning and Revision for Y'all , but they ca n't find a snappy acronym to fit the words . |
| 27 | but they ca n't read the sign that says , –NO CHEQUES AT THIS TILL ’ |
| 28 | these days , I mean , I know over at Windersham but they ca n't get a plumber and I was talking |
| 29 | There is no point in complaining ; they may try to mollify you in their irritatingly good English , but they will not have a clue what you are so anxious about . |
| 30 | But they will not have the pressures of other couples in which one is divorced . |