Example sentences of "but [pron] [modal v] [adv] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe I 'll try to understand — but I 'll probably be too busy packing . |
| 2 | You have a year or two 's advantage on me , but I 'll still be here when you 're off looking for fresh fields to conquer . ’ |
| 3 | But I 'd rather be there . |
| 4 | I do n't intend to discuss the housing , whether seven hundred acres , sorry seven l land for seven hundred houses is owned by the City of York , that 's not part of our case one way or the other , but we have offered you a distribution of the Greater York provision figure between the districts , because from Barton Willmore 's very extensive experience of participation in local plan work up and down the country , I think we share the view that er City of York have , that Ryedale have , my colleagues to the left and right on this side of the table have , that there does need to be a distribution , otherwise there will be at best confusion as to whether local plans comply with the structure plan , and at worst a game of of pass the parcel and everybody will be conforming , but nobody will actually be possibly meeting the figures , and that is the situation that I do n't think anybody would wish to see as a result of er the outcome of of alteration number three , I mean I do n't know how the County Council would would really be able to say whether they thought a local plan conformed to the structure plan , without knowing what that distribution was , perhaps in some bottom draw manner which is not now the approved way of going about these things , so that I think there does need to be a distribution for the proper planning of York , and before coming on to our to explain our figures a little bit , I should also say , perhaps in in response to remarks Mr Thomas made earlier on about the general character of the York area and the need to protect that , that that course is precisely what the greenbelt is for , and what it does , it is n't necessary to extend that concept across the whole of the vale of York , and therefore to seek to er discount migration outside the greenbelt . |
| 5 | Broad definitions of money also include various items such as deposit accounts in banks that can not be spent directly but which can nevertheless be readily converted into cash . |
| 6 | But you 'll still be legally entitled to some compensation if the machine is faulty , so it may be worth thinking about accepting a free repair or a replacement . |
| 7 | You should be lucky and knit a perfect garment in the first yarn that comes to hand but you could also be badly disappointed . |
| 8 | You could be lucky and knit a perfect garment in the first yarn that comes to hand but you could also be badly disappointed . |
| 9 | But you could rarely be absolutely certain . |
| 10 | She was sure — or almost sure — that they had never actually killed anyone , but you could never be quite sure in this world . |
| 11 | Now of course you ca n't predict at the level of the individual school what the population is going to be , but you can nevertheless be very clear that the system as a whole is going to have many erm fewer pupils . |
| 12 | But she 'll never be very strong . ’ |
| 13 | " But she can still be very important . |
| 14 | One of things that we 'll never be though is , I think perhaps I can use the , I do n't want to use the word cheap because that 's not right , but we 'll never be less expensive than the others will we ? |
| 15 | But there may also be more immediate difficulties , such as job losses associated with closure of customs offices or with competition in the area of public procurement . |
| 16 | But there may well be even more subtle reasons why this group should find itself attracted to this particular form of civil society . |
| 17 | This is a good start , but there will still be quite considerable differences within the remaining group and it is worth checking to see if you can usefully angle your basic release to fit at least some of these requirements . |
| 18 | There would probably be some results , but they would probably be somewhat superficial , and the knowledge gleaned would be of a general rather than a specific nature . |
| 19 | The usual course for mononuclear cells after extravasation is in fact to lose functional capacity ; resident macrophages in normal tissues are therefore in some aspects less differentiated than monocytes , but they may nevertheless be more active in other instances . |
| 20 | Grammatical constraints may overlap and reinforce semantic ones , but they may also be semantically arbitrary . |
| 21 | Not only will these flows take time to build up , but they will also be mainly loans rather than grants , unlike Marshall aid . |
| 22 | The case study illustrates that the implications of demographic trends can be modified by unforeseen economic events but they can also be successfully addressed by policy planning . |
| 23 | The Hagerhai people of the Shreader mountains hunt pigs , but they can also be extremely intimate with them . |
| 24 | Only a few major groups survived into the Carboniferous , but they can still be locally abundant . |
| 25 | They still need to be part of a wider Europe , but they can now be more relaxed about it . |
| 26 | He told us that he expected to be posted to the front at some time in the next few weeks but he would still be home by Christmas ; an officer had told him that the bloody Huns would have been sent packing long before then . |
| 27 | Anton 's likely to play at Brighton on Saturday but he 'll probably be away on Monday and it would be difficult to play him on Wednesday . ’ |
| 28 | But he must never be simply a ‘ clown ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ But it may well be so . ’ |
| 30 | But it may still be well worth trying . |