Example sentences of "but there [vb mod] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there may be good reasons every now and then for not re-issuing er , even though it 's agreed what the will be . |
| 2 | But there may be powerful grounds for saying that the command economy , is the culprit , rather than the management of it . |
| 3 | If you have a limb disability you may still be entitled to a licence , but there may be certain restrictions . |
| 4 | It is much easier for Amnesty to help members to do more specialised campaigning if they belong to a group — in particular , we have systems for providing group members with training , and for getting feedback from them — but there may be new types of groups we could develop , and even ways of offering more personalised approaches to campaigning to individual members . |
| 5 | Every document has its contribution to make to research , but there may be other documents not used which could make their contribution too . |
| 6 | But there may be other symptoms over the years , and if you marry and have children they may inherit in various ways . |
| 7 | Our model adjusted for the most obvious of these ( age and smoking ) , but there may be other unidentified factors . |
| 8 | ‘ But there may be other ways in , or ways of bringing the quarry out . ’ |
| 9 | But there may be legitimate reasons for incorporating a company which is intended to remain dormant indefinitely or for retaining on the register a company which for the time being has ceased to carry on business but which the members may wish to use at some time in the future for the same or some different business . |
| 10 | Serious interference is probably rare , but there may be minor effects affecting the accuracy . |
| 11 | It might well be that some of them had work as servants , or in agriculture — but there would be strong competition for the latter , for quite apart from the regular farm labourers there were a considerable number of workmen not as fully employed at the mine as perhaps they would have wished . |
| 12 | But there would be new regulatory commissions and consumer councils for every utility , along with ombudsmen , and public interest commissioners appointed by the Secretary of State . |
| 13 | Not only would there be great procedural difficulties in doing so , but there would be political difficulties . |
| 14 | She was pissed off at missing Triste at the bar , but there would be other jobs . |
| 15 | ‘ I think there was a lot of loyalty and desire for the marriage to work out , particularly between Vicki and I. I mean , you 'd think that the two sisters would have bonded together against everyone , but there would be different … coalitions . |
| 16 | However , the line would cross Croydon Road and continue down Elmers End Road to the Beckenham boundary , but there would be connecting curves at the Robin Hood . |
| 17 | ‘ I could build an electric lute , ’ Arthur continued , ‘ but there would be little point : no one is making music for electric lutes . ’ |
| 18 | We could calculate the heritability for a character of which we did know the exact genetics ( such as Mendel 's peas ) , but there would be little point in doing so , because the actual genotypes controlling the trait are more informative than the heritability . |
| 19 | My God , but there would be blood-letting this night . |
| 20 | The cost would be immeasurable , but there would be green on either side of Zayed 's desert highway in his lifetime . |
| 21 | Some of the transactions the Crown sought to rely on were not at arm 's length and might therefore be of no assistance , but there might be other transactions which had taken place between parties who were genuinely trying to strike an open market value , and there was no reason why such cases should be ignored . |
| 22 | But there might be other solutions . |
| 23 | But there might be other , more dangerous examples of his getting personal , and with people who are not so well balanced . |
| 24 | We have been lucky but there might be other people who will not be . ’ |
| 25 | We have been lucky but there might be other people who will not be . ’ |
| 26 | 2.35 In claims for the death of an infant child there is rarely any actual dependency but there might be prospective loss and it is well established that prospective loss is sufficient to found a claim by the parents . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , Cockfield , who expect to have virtually the whole village behind them , add recent signings Nigel Sams and Stephen Barker to the squad , but there will be late fitness tests for midfielder Mark Roughley and Kevin Pierce . |
| 28 | The bad news is that sunshine will be in short supply for the west coast , but there will be good sunny spells over central and eastern Scotland . |
| 29 | Local authorities will , of course , differ in the breadth of their need ideologies , but there will be identifiable boundaries to their activities under these provisions ( Streather , 1989 ) . |
| 30 | But there will be other charges , too , including crematorium fees of £70 to £125 , or burial plots costing anything from £75 in the country to several thousand pounds in London . |