Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb mod] [be] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | she do n't usually , but she will be that night . |
| 2 | But there 'll be some jollification around the old homestead tonight and nobody likes tripping the light fantastic better than wor Martin . ’ |
| 3 | It may be soon but there may be some delay . |
| 4 | But there may be some disagreement over the way in which Dr Clarke formulates this . |
| 5 | You 'll probably find the walls washed clean , but there may be some evidence that he got out through one of the lavatory windows . |
| 6 | This right can not be taken away by any terms in a licence agreement but there may be some difficulty with deciding when making a back-up copy is truly necessary . |
| 7 | I do n't see that I can do very much , but there may be some questions that , in the circumstances , the police have not thought it necessary to ask . |
| 8 | I believe this is a much inflated claim , but there may be some truth to it . |
| 9 | Lay estates , by contrast , are likely to show perhaps greater diversity , but there may be less information from which to reconstruct the pre-Conquest arrangements . |
| 10 | Whether " a manner of living which demands rigorous honesty " is all that is required is quite possibly true but there may be any number of blocks in the road towards that manner of living . |
| 11 | ‘ We are looking for someone on a consultancy basis to advise on above and below-the-line campaigns , but there may be several arms to that , ’ McDevitt adds . |
| 12 | But there would be some D-D reactions in a reactor filled with deuterium and helium-3 , which do produce neutrons . |
| 13 | There would be no cuts in major services , but there would be some reductions in the community education service and cuts in payments to outside bodies . |
| 14 | China has provided 400 tons of pork and Cuba an unspecified quantity of poultry for the birthday celebrations , but there will be more circuses than bread to lift popular morale in a joyless nation . |
| 15 | Temperatures overnight will hold at around four or five celsius , forty one fahrenheit in general , but there will be some ground frost in sheltered parts of Argyll . |
| 16 | But there will be few variations from the original theme . |
| 17 | The offering of such guidelines or suggestions does not in any way detract from the professional integrity of the teacher , who must then select what suits him best for his own purposes , but there will be few teachers who will have had the time or the imagination to think of all of them . |
| 18 | A home aquarium of British Freshwater species sounds like a good idea , but there can be many problems . |
| 19 | But there can be little doubt that such change is not going to happen overnight . |
| 20 | But there can be little doubt that he had two causes in mind , and great probability that he had also a third . |
| 21 | But there can be little doubt that Häagen-Dazs has really put premium ice-cream on the marketing map , not least by its bold , passion-exuding press ads through Bartle Bogle Hegarty . |
| 22 | The only question here can be the shade of blue : but there can be little doubt that , as befits Oxford men , the blue of Christian revival tended to be dark . |
| 23 | But there can be little doubt that French styles and French cultural patterns were a dominant influence on the art forms and patronage of English Gothic . |
| 24 | These salt ways certainly seem to have been used to transport salt from Droitwich in late-Saxon times and even later , but there can be little doubt that they were in existence long before then . |
| 25 | Excavations at Water Newton have yielded little evidence about the settlement 's everyday life apart from the industrial aspects already discussed , but there can be little doubt that it enjoyed a close relationship with the imperial estate in the Fens , by acting as a processing and marketing centre conveniently placed both for road and river transport . |
| 26 | Death and destruction were meted out by both sides , but there can be little doubt that the rebels carried a greater burden of responsibility than the Republicans , for their repressive actions took a higher human toll and they , not the Republicans , had acted against legality . |
| 27 | Many urban tradesmen , especially those connected with the building industry , seem to have invested in a small way in housing for rent , but there can be little doubt that the special facilities in raising capital conferred by acts of parliament on turnpike trusts and canal companies enabled them to become the recipients of a flow of capital from sources which would not otherwise have been drawn so directly towards economic improvements . |
| 28 | You may have heard too much of Moby 's ‘ Go ’ by now , but there can be few complaints otherwise : Meat Beat Manifesto , DJ Carl Cox , Nightmares On Wax , Orbital etc , provide a mixture of the subtle and the hardcore in aid of peace . |
| 29 | But there could be some surprises . |
| 30 | but there could be more people . |