Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] but [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 58% who identified less dependence on farm income as a benefit represented those for whom the farm provided a considerable proportion of total income but which could not provide a living income on its own . |
| 2 | I could tour it just like a normal album but I could use the art circuit as kind of a base audience . |
| 3 | I 'm a very careful driver but I will admit I do n't like men getting away first at the lights |
| 4 | As Branch Manager Ian Davies said ( speaking as a confirming bachelor ) ‘ five good men have bitten the dust ; normally men of sound judgement but I will forgive them this one mistake ! ’ |
| 5 | The long cooking time will give a brown skin but you could brush the turkey with brown seasoning or tomato purée to give it more colour . |
| 6 | Sovereignty , homage and fealty , and the ‘ domainal liberties ’ of the Plantagenets , are sometimes considered in a theoretical light but they must also be put as firmly as possible into the more pragmatic context of Anglo-French relations . |
| 7 | Sure you know it 's , it 's a high fence but we could try to jump in and would have done the other , the farmer came with a stick and er he Useful know , no |
| 8 | It is important of course that the field varies as 1/r2 in that case , and it is also of some use to know the formula for the capacitance of a spherical capacitor but you can work that out yourself if you are interested . |
| 9 | Placing an advertisement for someone kind and responsible to help may sound an unlikely way to find reliable help but it can have very satisfying results . |
| 10 | This is partly a question of social mobility but it may also be a response to the sort of repetitive jobs many of these people are performing . |
| 11 | Later in the campaign his media advisers tried desperately to ‘ create ’ a new Dukakis by injecting comments such as ‘ I am a liberal , I am against capital punishment but I would feel like killing the person who harmed my wife and children . ’ |
| 12 | The police could have adopted a different stratagem but it would have been ‘ more time-consuming and difficult ’ than this ‘ simple procedure ’ . |
| 13 | Such a state of affairs would , of course , protect serious public discussion of matters of social importance but it would also debase much of the discussion of public affairs . |
| 14 | There are numerous theories for the type , number and distribution of the holes that make up the free volume but we shall discuss solely the use of the free volume concept in the derivation of the Williams-Landel-Ferry ( WLF ) equation , Equation ( 3.11 ) . |
| 15 | Er and not many fresh eggs but we did get dried eggs which were , were , it was n't a bad substitute but it was n't the same as a fresh egg but you could scramble them and you could use them for cooking but then you see there was very little fat . |
| 16 | So if we could look at those things and talk to the Government to see if it 's possible , it maybe it is n't possible then that 's a different argument but we should be seen to be doing something er to let this die on it 's own will A , will deprive other people for odd jobs and in some cases I 've met the representation two guys there who used their redundancy money for Airways to purchase er a small aircraft and are running a flying school . |
| 17 | In another measure , the Government extended the Landlord and Tenant Act protection to the licensed trade but they would not bring it in immediately — it had to be implemented some time in the future . |
| 18 | This seemed to us to have a very high priority but it ca n't continue to have a high priority if we 're pushing against a closed door . |
| 19 | It is a distasteful subject but it must be faced for a few moments . |
| 20 | Marthus did n't actually foresee this erm , this leap in from technology and as a result he was basing his predictions on past trends so if past trends had continued would have been , he w , he would been correct but because erm , agriculturalists started to erm , use technology and at that time it was a very sort of low technology , but nevertheless it would , would 've production dramatically you know , you do n't think of drainage as being particularly high tech but it can increase the , the yield on a crop sort of four or five times and so si simple drainage systems would be introduced erm ro rotations were being introduced , again rotations you think of being fairly straightforward but erm prior to the agricultural revolution rotations were n't used rotations can improve the fertility of the soil and er yields as well right okay , so agriculture produces a homogenous product , by and large and er as there is n't the scope , the product differentiation , and there is n't the scope for specialisation because we 'd need a farm the size of Europe to feed the world with , w with wheat . |
| 21 | In our view this argument is valid : there is value in that generalised approach but it must include the study of language as well as languages . |
| 22 | ‘ You wo n't have time for a proper meal but you must eat something — we do n't want you fainting at a crucial moment , do we ? ’ |
| 23 | Disablement Benefit is paid as a weekly pension but you will only be paid if you are assessed as at least 14 per cent disabled . |
| 24 | I 'm a social smoker but I can go for months at a time without even thinking about it . |
| 25 | ‘ He was a lovely old fellow but nobody would have guessed he was a multi-millionaire . ’ |
| 26 | I could resume light training but I must undergo further tests . |
| 27 | This may well be a pleasurable and interesting occupation but it will not in any way further the quest for the universal philosophy so urgently needed , unless those students and specialist authorities use the opportunities afforded them to serve humanity more widely and wisely than by merely producing yet more literature for yet more students . |
| 28 | Their own proposals for reform are aimed at restructuring the British press but it can be argued that even they fail to come to grips with the sort of major ‘ shortcomings ’ of the press ( and media ) identified above . |
| 29 | Rises in extracellular neurotransmitter concentration may indicate increased synaptic release but they may also depend on non-synaptic release or diminished or ‘ reversed ’ uptake . |
| 30 | They 're going to be cheaper for the English market but they 'll have to put on their prices for the export market for those that are going out |