Example sentences of "but [conj] we [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the important point is not that they would hesitate to do it , but that we would not be interested if they did . |
| 2 | This is not to say that reading happens outside of the domain of politics , but that we ca n't easily conflate the two . |
| 3 | Chairman Sir Anthony Tennant rightly predicted that many of us would be too hard up to stand a round of drinks in the pub anymore — but that we 'd still fancy a cheap tipple at home . |
| 4 | I would suggest that we can deal with these parties if they arise but that we should not hold up the negotiations with the top four . |
| 5 | In Chapter 1 we proposed that our representation of ordinary nouns should , strictly speaking , include round brackets , to indicate occurrence of a property , inside the square brackets representing entity-hood , but that we should normally allow the round brackets to be omitted in order to simplify the notation , thus abbreviating ( 41 ) ( a ) to ( b ) : ( 41 ) ( a ) [ ( NEIGHBOUR ) ] ( b ) [ NEIGHBOUR ] In the present case , however , given that the function of the adjective is exactly to distinguish between property and entity aspects of a single syntactical item , we shall be obliged to use the fuller form . |
| 6 | But although we ca n't comprehend these levels of improbability in our minds , we should n't just run away from them in terror . |
| 7 | But and we must really work on it , but we will have our limits , due to the slowness of people , due to the wastage . |
| 8 | Superintendent Roger Arnold said : ‘ We 'll try to find the owner but if we ca n't the boys could end up keeping their catch . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ We are looking at voluntary redundancy , early retirement , job swaps , but if we ca n't do it by the end of the year we will have to look at compulsory redundancy . ’ |
| 10 | alright , they move it out of Switzerland but if we ca n't have it here we 'll have it in Pakistan or somewhere where they want the money ! |
| 11 | Just do n't send him but if we ca n't afford it then , we just do n't know what 's gon na happen do we ? |
| 12 | But if we ca n't then we take him out of Saint Christopher 's next year and put him in a state school . |
| 13 | I doubt if most would take this view ; but if we would not , then we are forced to try to define with care the point at which handicap does become good reason . |
| 14 | I want to have this man drive me in his car all night long , for us never to arrive anywhere … but if we should then let the gates swing silently open , let there be a long gravel drive , let it be like when the young master comes home from school . |
| 15 | At each moment the effect may be intensely impressive , but if we can not remember anything with precision afterwards , the music is lost again forever , and its value is therefore diminished . |
| 16 | But if we can not recognise something as it stands we try to analyse it into parts that we can recognise . |
| 17 | But if we can sometimes lift our eyes from our own problems and focus on those of others , it will be at least a step in the right direction and Christmas is a good time to take it , ’ she said . |
| 18 | But because we must n't let anyone know he 's here , there are a few precautions we must take . |
| 19 | But because we can not escape history it also seems either naive or even wicked . |
| 20 | Many historians have tended to stress the instrumental nature of sexual relationships and the conflicts inherent in working-class patterns of life , and no doubt much of this was often true ; but because we can not now identify with the exact meanings given to activities , this does not mean that strong feelings of warmth and mutual support did not exist . |
| 21 | The true moral seems to be that a choice is difficult not because we can not decide which is the better but because we can not bear to give up the one that has not been chosen . |
| 22 | Thus Vaughan is assuming a certain amount of shared knowledge on the part of the reader ; but because we can not , naturally , see things from the perspective of his origo , he must also assist the reader in the assignment of indexical or deictic meanings . |
| 23 | It was difficult to sleep that night , not only because the floor was hard , but because we could n't escape the worry of what the future had in store for us . |
| 24 | But since we ca n't carry on with the experiment now we 've got to leave that till later on . |
| 25 | But before we can even begin to do this constructively , we must agree on the nature — and the terms — of the problem . |
| 26 | It was deliberately defaced in antiquity , but though we can not read the sculptor 's name we can make out that he carved these figures ‘ and those at the back ’ , the east frieze that is . |
| 27 | Automatic Cover — Previously this was provided without limit as to the period of time by which the Company must be notified but as we can no longer rely on surveyors picking up additional plant , it is now a condition of this cover that the Insured notifies the Company before expiry of the current period of insurance . |