Example sentences of "but [pron] [modal v] [be] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 But I 'll be far too busy organising Roman 's public relations campaign ready for the business fair !
2 ‘ I 've nothing to change into , but I 'll be all right now I 've had a drink , and something nice and hot to eat . ’
3 I do n't spect I could be as good as her , but I 'd be nearly as good .
4 Such an approach is based on what I have called elsewhere ( Parton , 1985 ) a disease model of child abuse , but which may be more appropriately conceptualized as a public health model ( Giovannoni , 1982 ; Greenland , 1987 ) .
5 It is not true to say that a menstruating woman is unclean — she has a status of tameh , a word which has been wrongly translated for years as ‘ unclean ’ but which would be much better translated as ‘ impure ’ .
6 but which would be almost wholly agricultural — and strongly Unionist .
7 But you 'll be all right … ’
8 And half way through the second act , when Ptolemy accused Caesar of driving him from his palace and Caesar said , ‘ Go , my boy , I will not harm you ; but you will be safer away , among your friends , here you are in the lion 's mouth ’ , Stella imagined St Ives spoke more severely than usual .
9 Please yourself whether you come inside or not , but you 'd be far more comfortable in there than spending the night out here . ’
10 But you 'd be much better off with someone else .
11 You need to rest for a few days , but you should be all right soon enough .
12 But she 'll be all right now .
13 But she 'll be home soon , eh ? ’
14 Neither Lorenzo nor I want to part , but we 'll be together again soon , and for always …
15 But we would be even more foolish if we imagined that modernity is neutral territory : it is enemy territory — as the world , for Christians , has always been .
16 But we can be rather more rigorous about the form of ‘ moral housing careers ’ for different social groups .
17 But we will be tonight anyway .
18 These androids do n't feel the cold , but we 'd be rather more comfortable off this wind-swept mountain-top , I 'm sure . ’
19 It 's not a riot of pleasure , but we 'd be there together . ’
20 But one will be quite enough for most of you ’
21 But there might be very much smaller black holes , which were formed in the early universe .
22 A lot of people are wearing leathers , but there will be even more this winter .
23 Well , yes they may want to do something about it , but they may be just too scared to give any details which would lead to something being done about it , I mean things can be done about it , but only if the child wants them done .
24 Improvements will be slow here , but they will be there eventually .
25 But he 'll be around later , ’ Simone told her , ‘ and he 'll be thrilled that you 're here .
26 PETER MARSHALL may not yet be the household name outside squash that Jonah Barrington was , but he could be very soon .
27 I know he 's had a long time out with injury but he must be all right now or he would n't be playing . ’
28 But he must be all too aware that it wo n't impress the Soviet citizens facing economic crisis , and waiting in the food queues , nor will it immediately resolve the ethnic problems which beset him .
29 It might be tempting to make a small charge for this but it may be even more advantageous to offer this as a free service with the profit being goodwill .
30 But it may be that even where there is evidence that the patient was mentally unfit or too young , the doctor would still avoid liability , not so much on the basis of the patient 's refusal as on the proposition of Elliott that further treatment was useless , or that of Williams that life had become a burden to the patient .
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