Example sentences of "but we [modal v] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We just want people to get the money in very quickly after the seventh of November , er but we 'll hopefully know after Sunday evening , er what we reckon to have raised in the area . |
| 2 | ( I hear Anya 's hiss of horror ) ‘ but we might just manage to be friends . ’ |
| 3 | But if you can raise that profile which I talk about , the of the ethics of of your trade , your profession and become , in effect , a pressure group , a pressure group for the public good , while we may not always agree with you , and indeed we 're going to say that we do n't agree with you and you must n't be afraid of that but we would rather hear from you , you 're the men and women at the sharp end , I hesitate to say ‘ experts ’ because ‘ expert ’ is a , a rather over-used word but we 'd much rather hear from you , at the sharp end , than the part-time politicians who , by the very nature of , of their role , and however well-meaning they may be , they have other priorities . |
| 4 | The entry would stay in its original place in the book , but we would never refer to it . |
| 5 | But we must also think about the efficiency implications of a tax . |
| 6 | But we must also bear in mind , particularly in view of the points raised in Chapter 5 , that such a model needs to be evaluated in terms of its pedagogic relevance . |
| 7 | But we must now return to England to consider briefly part of the lively contribution to the developments we are discussing made by Sir Edward Tylor ( 1832–1917 ) . |
| 8 | The above pattern may be correct for very slow speech , but we must now look at what happens to the rhythm in normal speech : many English speakers would feel that , although in ‘ twenty places ’ the right-hand foot is the stronger , the word ‘ twenty ’ is stronger than ‘ places ’ in ‘ twenty places further back ’ when spoken in conversational style . |
| 9 | But we must always distinguish between the nature of the process and the nature of the record . |
| 10 | The low rumble of a juggernaut seems to vibrate all around us but we can immediately turn towards a high-pitched sound , such as whistle being blown . |
| 11 | We may be a grandmother , but we can still walk across the tea-room with a girlish flick of the bottom . |
| 12 | We know the facts of his life , but we can only guess at his hopes , his fears , his dreams . |
| 13 | We may conceive several alternatives but we can only act on one of them . |
| 14 | But we can then distinguish between two kinds of study : ( a ) operational studies , often not generally published , which study effects as indicators of internal policy and marketing decisions — ‘ attitude ’ surveys in market research ; studies of responses to programmes in broadcasting research ; private political polling on ‘ issues ’ ; and ( b ) critical research , in which the effects of programmes showing violence or of political broadcasting or other distinguishable kinds of production are assessed for both specific and general social effect , often in response to an expressed public concern . |
| 15 | erm a purely class thing erm but we can actually get in there |
| 16 | And I 'm putting this forward as something to encourage us all , because sometimes we ca n't be articulate , sometimes we ca n't look beautiful , most of the times you ca n't look beautiful , but we can all think of ways of creating an interesting story . |
| 17 | But whatever , we are keen on it now , we should always have been , and if you treat people at the work place just like dirt , if you continue to turn Britain into a sweat shop , drive down wages , drive down people 's rights , then you may get some form of external investment come into this country , but we will never compete with the Dutch and the Germans and the Scandinavians , and we will never have a happy and united country . |
| 18 | I agree with what you 're saying , but we should also look at what we do , for instance David when you go out you virtually never divert your telephone , everytime you go out ten minutes later I get up and go and divert your phone for you , if we get into the habit of diverting our phones then we we would n't have that problem . |
| 19 | True , pest and disease may follow , but we should always keep in mind the possibility that the initial breach in the defences is due to physical disorder . |
| 20 | ‘ We would n't necessarily be a big network to compete with the PTTs , but we 'd probably go to the PTTs and say , ‘ Hey , we have this big network , do you want to use it ? ’ ’ |
| 21 | We were disappointed but we could still watch through the windows as Mum gave her final instructions to Mrs Taylor and Mrs Buckley . |