Example sentences of "but it [vb mod] [vb infin] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am sure my husband would not mind if your daughter came but it may need to be the ( comfortable ) sofa for a night ! |
| 2 | Yet not only could such a rearrangement be brought about , with the will to do so , but it might come to be seen as greatly to the general advantage of the school . |
| 3 | I always wanted to study art there , but it 'll have to be London now , I suppose — if it 's anywhere ! |
| 4 | I want a , I want a station waggon but it 'll have to be a Ford , personally . |
| 5 | Without any data being available on this fish as yet , it is difficult to say what the adult size might be , but it would appear to be about 12cm . |
| 6 | Another Kat-Zet usage , widely current , used in many forms : it sounds like smistig , but it would appear to be a conflation of two German substantives , Schmutzstück and Schmuckstück , ‘ garbage ’ and ‘ jewel ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ Of course , I would like to be asked to fight a marginal one day , but it would have to be local . |
| 8 | But it would have to be faced . |
| 9 | But it would have to be people who have an overall musical sensibility about it . |
| 10 | Already he was worried about their stores lasting until the Saturday when he might reasonably claim a few shillings to tide him over ; Emily 's mother had given them a box of stuff , sausages , bread , some tea , butter , bacon — but it would have to be spun out . |
| 11 | Now , if Edinburgh District want to talk to us about Ingleston , and we do n't want to upset them , we 'll talk to them , but it would have to be an in , and enormous financial attraction for us even to consider that . |
| 12 | But it would have to be at least twenty feet long . |
| 13 | That way , I think that some land might become available , but it would have to be up to the planners to be more flexible . |
| 14 | But it would seem to be impossible for us to return to patristic sensibilities , for the framework of thought which made that Christology possible is no longer with us . |
| 15 | The event has been revamped and the children 's element expanded , but it will continue to be based on a list of ‘ top 20 ’ titles and a catalogue . |
| 16 | Muslin is another good choice , but it will have to be fixed to a well-made frame that fits the tank exactly . |
| 17 | But it will have to be more than the mysterious death used in the old , simple detective story . |
| 18 | You should be able to carry an unreefed main up to 30 knots of true wind , but it will have to be trimmed quite flat . |
| 19 | We are looking at Road , that 's the assurance , we are considering that er as er an extension but there is n't funding available for that within the present programme so we will come back with a proposal for Road but it will have to be compared with other big schemes so the scheme we are proposing now is the one that 's before you , which er I wo n't comment on unless people have questions . |
| 20 | ‘ If you like , but it will have to be on your own this morning . |
| 21 | But it will prove to be a necessary and worthwhile one if it leads us in the direction of a less doctrinaire and therefore more properly educational form of antiracism . |