Example sentences of "but they [vb mod] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They will probably be fairly reluctant to assist , given that your client is not a member of their union , but they might be persuaded to part with the safety minutes which contain relevant complaints that predate the accident . |
| 32 | Not but they might be shagging camels and then all the camels got |
| 33 | ‘ I hate to admit it , but they 'll be sheltering him , they always stick with their own kind . ’ |
| 34 | Give it fifty years and I 'll bet you that the baker and all the rest of the folks , it 'll be coming from a supermarket , but they 'll be delivering stuff that you 've put on your computer . |
| 35 | Rachel 's parents say they know they ca n't stop the programme but they 'll be switching it off . |
| 36 | But they 'll be elected by the cast . |
| 37 | Hundreds of New Age vehicles are heading for Stonehenge for the weekend , but they 'll be turned away and could head north into Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire . |
| 38 | but they 'll be paying for their own seats though , so it 's |
| 39 | But they 'll be suited to somewhere an awful lot different from Richmond . |
| 40 | But they 'll be returning to their home nation , South Africa for a unique cycling challenge . |
| 41 | But they 'll be handed in , I daresay . ’ |
| 42 | In some cases jobs offered will be YTS placements , but they will be employed status . |
| 43 | The voices of the old guard will be raised against this striking new departure , but they will be raised in vain . |
| 44 | Some of the present generation 's problems with information will therefore recede , but they will be replaced by others : and chief amongst these are selection , interpretation and evaluation of information . |
| 45 | Delays may be inevitable but they will be kept to a minimum . |
| 46 | These accusations may be wholly untrue but they will be made to an extent not paralleled by criticism of any judgment he may make from the bench of the regular courts . |
| 47 | We shall not pursue these matters further here , but they will be noticed again in connection with the nature of conditional statements and the subject of causation and science . |
| 48 | ‘ Shearer is only 21 and Blackburn might not be one of the glamour clubs , but they will be expecting an awful lot from him . ’ |
| 49 | But they will but they will be appraised by , who will appraise them then ? |
| 50 | Only five survivors of Woking 's 1990-91 heroes are expected to feature tonight — Buzaglo , Mark Biggins , Trevor Baron and Wye brothers Shane and Lloyd — but they will be roared on by a 6,000 capacity crowd . |
| 51 | But they will be designed to encourage you to be a long-term holder rather than to enable you to take a quick profit . |
| 52 | Systemic poisons will not stop the bees from taking a building brick , but they will be feeling pretty queer by the time they want to come back for more . |
| 53 | Your dramatic gestures will certainly mesmerize them , but they will be staring apprehensively at the glass , or laughing hysterically waiting for it to fall ! |
| 54 | But they will be remembered for their profound creative insight and as the people who restored the mill as a vibrant life-force . |
| 55 | But they will be allowed to buy stakes of up to 15 per cent and after five years the barriers will come down . |
| 56 | Unfortunately , the posters they sent to us arrived too late for the exhibition but they will be used at future venues . |
| 57 | There will be sweet moments for all of us , but they will be swamped by the sour … and we 'll all be happy , in our own peculiar way , saving up for a sunny day two or three years off in the future . |
| 58 | The pack says social workers should take responsibility for ensuring the forms are completed but they can be filled in by the person the child is living with . |
| 59 | REACTIVE chlorine compounds are known to cause ozone depletion in the Antarctic stratosphere , but they can be bound into an inactive form through reactions with nitrogen dioxide . |
| 60 | A dictionary of legal words is usually used to calculate the probabilities , but they can be calculated dynamically from the text being processed . |