Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [modal v] be [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | More expensive , but still good value , are the units from direct-sell kitchen manufacturers — their quality and installation services can be excellent , but you may be subject to some fairly hard selling methods at first . |
| 2 | Your tenants , not you , will be liable for the community charge ( poll tax ) , but you may be liable to capital gains tax when you sell . |
| 3 | Hardly a candidate for success you might think but you would be wrong to the tune of £120m because that 's how much it took at the US box-office . |
| 4 | But you should be grateful to it , ’ he added . |
| 5 | At the moment she could not remember which day this was , but she might be able to if she thought about it . |
| 6 | Yes … high earners will get bigger fines … but they may be disproportionate to the offence . |
| 7 | They can carry on a normal life like going to school or work and having fun with their family and friends , but they will be infectious to other people for the rest of their lives . |
| 8 | Users will not be forced to take up object-oriented features if they do n't want to , but they will be able to can add bits of object-oriented programming as they wish , and insulate existing Cobol programs by making an object out of an existing data structure . |
| 9 | Shift-work hours are not merely inconvenient but they can be disturbing to the functioning of the whole family . |
| 10 | Expenses can be a sensitive issue but they should be available to all volunteers if needed . |
| 11 | But he would be happy to be ‘ Godfather ’ to the project . |
| 12 | Midwinter will never be the president of the United States but he will be close to the President . |
| 13 | Presently , we do not know the reason for this , but it may be due to different conformations of the fusion protein or to dimerization . |
| 14 | The cause of the high pepsinogen C concentrations in patients on omeprazole treatment is unknown , but it may be due to a direct effect of omeprazole on the gastric mucosa to omeprazole induced hypergastrinaemia or bacterial overgrowth of the stomach because of acid inhibition . |
| 15 | The biological significance of this DNA bending is unclear but it may be relevant to the mechanism of autoregulation by Vmw175 . |
| 16 | According to the researchers , normal use of the material is safe , but it may be harmful to humans when equipment is being assembled or scrapped . |
| 17 | C It might seem tedious to you , but it might be interesting to them — because I mean to say , if you waant them to know your culture you afi chat it [ afi = " have to " ] |
| 18 | Well mm well you , you can but it 'll be nice to , it will be nice to have something , something , you know , kind of some sort of list we can , we can refer to and , and say oh yes oh great he 's handed that one in now and , and sort of knock it off because I know they do keep records in the office but , you know just , just something so , so we know where you are erm and it also kind of er will perhaps help concentrate the mind on what you need to get done erm so er |
| 19 | Yeah , but it 'll be nice to though if everyone 's going . |
| 20 | But it would be nice to be told that he was all the same , even if it did make me feel a bit sad . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It will be a good-looking pig , but it would be terrible to be a child with a face like that . ’ |
| 22 | The average rejection rate per journal could be used as a weighting factor in assessing the impact of a particular thesis , or indeed paper , but it would be difficult to be totally certain that the comparison criteria had objective validity . |
| 23 | The average rejection rate per journal could be used as a weighting factor in assessing the impact of a particular thesis , or indeed paper , but it would be difficult to be totally certain that the comparison criteria had objective validity . |
| 24 | No final decision has been made on whether there will be legislation , but it would be unlikely to be tabled before next autumn , according to Department of Employment sources . |
| 25 | But it would be gratifying to be quoted accurately , and most importantly , in context . |
| 26 | But it should be clear to us now that the English hide which she thought so ‘ thickly padded ’ was in fact morbidly sensitive — certainly as long ago as Beerbohm 's spitefulness in the 1930s , and perhaps as long ago as Robert Nichols 's inexusable review of ‘ Homage to Sextus Propertius ’ in 1920 . |
| 27 | But it must be terrible to be so alone . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ But it must be terrible to be like that — not to be able to move — or to feel anything . ’ |
| 29 | An " arrangement " under s103(3) includes a scheme of arrangement under s425 , but it must be open to all the shareholders ( or all the shareholders of the same class ) to take part in it ( s103(4) ) . |
| 30 | I 've tried to keep this review from trespassing too far into Mills & Boon territory , but it must be obvious to all and sundry that I love the Legend to bits . |