Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [vb mod] be [adj] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you may be sure that the lords of the other cities will be appraised of these conditions by nightfall . ’ |
| 2 | A number of firms are offering interest-free credit , especially on big electrical items , but you must be convinced that you can keep up all the payments . |
| 3 | But you must be aware that lots of guitarists today are still trying to do exactly that … |
| 4 | Your line manager will be sympathetic to all reasonable requests but you should be clear that special leave is granted at management discretion ; it is not and entitlement and is not an entitlement and is dependent on the needs of the business . |
| 5 | One can hardly blame them but you can be sure that they are not thinking that those poor people in the audience must be feeling hungry — they simply want to increase their profits . |
| 6 | But you can be sure that no rabbit died of old age in Baldersdale during our time ! |
| 7 | But you can be sure that you 'll have the time of your life . |
| 8 | Even the ACE name may be thrown out with the dishwater in this latest development — too many bad memories ? — ‘ but you can be sure that there will be a deuce ! ’ one insider told Unigram last week . |
| 9 | She will need to have certain documents available for the officer to see , such as a rent book and details of any savings , but she can be sure that the information she gives will be treated in strict confidence . |
| 10 | But we may be glad that she decided to be feminine , as thus she was made . |
| 11 | But we must be sure that what we are seeing is a true feeding roll and not just any surface activity , for bream do frequently appear at the surface when feeding is far from their thoughts . |
| 12 | But we must be sure that , however shaped in our imagination that goal is , it must be inspired by our lord 's own will for his church praying that his disciples would be one as he and the father are one . |
| 13 | But we must be aware that often enough interludes have a special purpose . |
| 14 | How many such stories lie hidden from us we can not tell ; but we can be sure that he reflects many of the aspirations of his day : as a merchant on land and sea , in the Baltic , the North Sea and the Mediterranean ; as a pilgrim to the shrines of England and Scotland , to Saint-Gilles , to St Peter and to Jerusalem , he accomplished what many others were doing , and far more aspired to . |
| 15 | Enough has survived for us to be able to trace the developing skills and aspirations of some groups of craft workers , but we can be sure that there were many crafts and other activities in the city of Knossos which have left no archaeological trace . |
| 16 | Gods and goddesses could appear in the form of boulders , trees , birds , snakes , or pillars , but we can be sure that an appearance in human form had the greatest emotional impact . |
| 17 | Whether or not schools as we know them will exist in the future is uncertain but we can be sure that there will be information and that its importance will grow in social and economic terms . |
| 18 | But we can be certain that in the future teachers of English will regard exclusive concern with the written form as a cultural phenomenon of the past , now outdated . |
| 19 | It may seem reasonable , but we should be clear that the arguments used in discussions about intention , emotion , pain and language in other animals are usually extrapolations from ourselves . |
| 20 | Support for these generalisations will be given as we proceed , but we should be aware that descriptions of institutional change need to be understood in the light of political and theoretical considerations . |
| 21 | After all , teachers are not generally too concerned with whether a child learns exactly what the average length of a brontosaurus was , or exactly how wide apart railway lines are , but they should be concerned that the child has the skills necessary to find out that information should it be required . |
| 22 | The hon. Gentleman is right about the siting of the energy technology support unit at the AEA , but he will be aware that the ETSU is a discrete unit working full time on renewable energy . |
| 23 | Of course during the er during the course of this year we will be considering prototypes which will enable those young people to reach that high level of qualification but he will be aware that under the national training and education target there are some of those targets which are directly related to the points that he has raised and the important priority for this government is to ensure not only that we have young people training to an even higher level but through programmes like investors in people , that we encourage every member of the work force and those er who are primarily unemployed at the present time , to train to even higher levels of qualifications . |
| 24 | A life prisoner can not be certain that he ever will be released on licence , but he can be certain that he will be considered for release , at latest 17 years after his sentence and periodically thereafter . |
| 25 | The Prime Minister told my right hon. Friend the Member for Islwyn ( Mr. Kinnock ) that the Government make a large contribution to the UN development agencies , but he must be aware that our contribution has been cut by 38 per cent . |
| 26 | How he obtained this skill is not recorded , but it may be significant that he visited Ravenna , where he befriended the poet Arator . |
| 27 | But it would be absurd that he should be able to plead the jury 's verdict in the first trial as a bar to the second . |
| 28 | But it would be possible that I might end up back at Ritchie Motors . |
| 29 | But it should be evident that it is true to his professed method , in that it executes a constant back-and-forth movement between the specific description of linguistic structures and the interpretation of the meaning of the poem as a whole . |
| 30 | But it should be clear that while one or two methods may be the most important for attributing coins to a mint or dating them , almost any other consideration can be important , depending on its relevance or on the accidents of survival . |