Example sentences of "but [det] could [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both Soviet and American leaders , by the late 1980s , had a common interest in a negotiated end to the Iran-Iraq war and in an international agreement guaranteeing freedom of movement in the Persian Gulf , but neither could necessarily manipulate events in the region to its advantage and neither , perhaps , quite understood the nature of a popular movement so far removed from its own cultural assumptions . |
| 2 | Merrydown is suffering because it is smaller than most of its rivals , but that could also mean a faster recovery , Purdey says . |
| 3 | But that could never be his way . |
| 4 | There may be a gain in the number of children at the school but this could well have happened through factors such as population change or a new housing development that are totally unconnected to the work on raising the school 's visibility and image . |
| 5 | Just how much they obtain there from is known only to themselves , but this could well be a final act born of an inextinguishable instinctive knowledge that there is somewhere a source of power available to the individual whereby he can supplement his capacity to face a fading future , or any other of life 's unwelcome experiences , at least with less apprehension , if not with absolute serenity . |
| 6 | But this could just be one big red herring . |
| 7 | Dose reduction is mentioned in the conclusions of the paper but this could easily have been incorporated in the design ; instead , one of the randomised groups in the study received 9 instead of 14 days of epoetin , a seemingly meaningless comparison . |
| 8 | There are no marks of modern tools on any part of the sculpture , which is carved from hard dolomitic Thasian marble , but this could again point to a very sophisticated forgery . |
| 9 | But this could soon be the more familiar face of coal production in Gloucestershire . |
| 10 | The new cereals were capable of doubling or trebling the produce of a cultivated hectare but this could only be done by investing in a package of changes . |
| 11 | But this could only occur if the number of selective secondary school places was exactly the same as the number of service class children . |
| 12 | It could have been provided as an additional barrier to odour , but this could only have been achieved by the use of waxed paper — as seen in the Lethieullier vault at Little Ilford , Essex — between the top of the sides of the coffin and the lid . |
| 13 | Similarly , laws-of-war considerations might lead to advocacy of a very large nuclear armoury , on the grounds that only then can weapons be used discriminately — but this could only too easily be read as a threat by the adversary . |
| 14 | The intention was that the College should benefit the economy , but this could only happen as science replaced practice , and as those with a real knowledge and love of chemistry began to apply it . |
| 15 | Clearly , when real output per capita rises , it must be theoretically possible for the gainers to compensate any losers , but this could only be interpreted as an actual improvement if full compensation were actually paid . |
| 16 | But this could quite easily turn into farce or pretension . |
| 17 | But this could hardly have been foreseen in 1880 . |
| 18 | There is likely , for example , to be a progression away from blue-collar jobs to white-collar or service occupations , but these could well take on more of the character which factory work has had in the past , if the tendency is not resisted . |
| 19 | Either side , or the jury , could ask for the tape itself to be played during the trial and the judge would almost always accede ; difficulties might arise where the tape contained objectionable or inadmissible evidence , for example , references to previous convictions , but these could usually be overcome . |
| 20 | In the past they 've had their moments ( the irritating ‘ I Useta Lover ’ ) but these could never combine to create an hour or so of recorded glory . |