Example sentences of "but [pron] [modal v] [not/n't] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can say " This is a cherry " and everyone understands what I mean , but I can not very well say " This is an offspring " without committing a grammatical impropriety , except perhaps as a contextually forgivable elipsis when it is already clear whose offspring is being talked about . |
| 2 | Personally I have always agreed with that , but I can not now simply substitute my judgment for that of the then Home Secretary , Sir David Maxwell Fyfe . |
| 3 | ‘ Ah , yes , but you ca n't very well knock on a monastery gate and say , ‘ May I have some poison ? ’ and expect the father abbot or prior to hand it over without a question . |
| 4 | ‘ But we could n't very well call you Blackpool , could we ? ’ she had remarked once to Preston with somewhat suspect logic . |
| 5 | The predictions of perturbation theory are in reasonable qualitative agreement with observation , but one can not yet really claim that the theory has been experimentally verified . |
| 6 | After all , an editor can always write up the copy himself but he can not so easily produce a photograph . |