Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] but [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How it should be but never could be , she thought ruefully . |
| 2 | Many people felt that the advantages of being disabled not only cancelled out any disadvantages there might be but actually outweighed them . |
| 3 | Volunteers they may be but highly expert lifeboatmen they are determined to remain . ’ |
| 4 | Ianthe was trying to imagine what the room would be like and where exactly the house would be but somehow did not like to ask for further details . |
| 5 | They do n't know how useful it would be but anyway , they said there , there 's , it 's a slightly odd event because it 's actually going to be just in the Civic Centre , and er , and kind of tacking on some workshops and things , so I 'm going to help her with workshops and have a display stand and so on but other than that , we 've not really got any direct input into it , because it is very much , sort of , you know , this is how you do business in France , these are the financial problems , type of thing . |
| 6 | Our step towards studying the influences exerted by the element of time on the relations between cost of production and value may well be to consider the famous fiction of the ‘ Stationary state ’ in which those influences would be but little felt ; and to contrast the results which would be found there with those in the modern world . |