Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inside you sit well , the trim is all that is should be but , after driving in some more modern interiors , are the buttons and switches as handy as they might be ? |
| 2 | Should be but we do . |
| 3 | Erm had a run on the flat so you know I mean I think we should be but |
| 4 | The actual quality in the , in the er print the sharpness , er that sort of thing , is perhaps not quite as good as it should be but I still , an eight for that one . |
| 5 | Erm while I would n't disagree with with that general sentiment , I would probably disagree with what that figure should be but we 'll be turning to that er next week . |
| 6 | Thank you , yes they should be but stand up and I 'm only trying to help in the situation . |
| 7 | How it should be but never could be , she thought ruefully . |
| 8 | So I might be showing myself doing worst than I should be but , look , my actual come out about the same and so when I compare my actual with my planned , I get er , an answer which should approach one . |
| 9 | Erm they 're in no hurry to join but with this second period er from September or was it October and erm once again there is this idea that , you know , the tide is turning and they , they will now join erm they wo n't find it so hard to join as the rich peasants but once again they 're not as enthusiastic and maybe they should be but they are , they are helping more but er er and this is the key er for which you know Mao talked about later is that we 've got to get the middle peasant actually actively involved |
| 10 | Since what I am to say must be but that Which contradicts my accusation … |
| 11 | The Yasa says that there must be but one Lord upon the Earth . |
| 12 | Oh they might been but I do n't I do n't know how long no . |
| 13 | More recently Gallop has remarked her suspicion of the wish to deny sexual difference because it ‘ might be but another mode of denying women ’ , adding : ‘ I distrust male homosexuals because they choose men over women just as do our social and political institutions , but they too share in the struggle against bipolar gender constraints , against the compulsory choice of masculine or feminine ’ ( Thinking through the Body , 1 13 ) . |
| 14 | ‘ He 's not as aggressive as he might be but that could come , and he has more skill and speed than someone like John Fashanu , who plays an intimidating game . |
| 15 | If Miss T. was a baptised and practising member of the Jehovah 's Witnesses she would be likely to refuse a blood transfusion or other treatment involving the giving of blood whatever the consequences might be but would accept substitutes if available . |
| 16 | Many people felt that the advantages of being disabled not only cancelled out any disadvantages there might be but actually outweighed them . |
| 17 | It is far from clear what trait this might be but preliminary experiments ( Berry , 1977 and unpublished ) have shown variation in resistance to desiccation and salinity between banding morphs . |
| 18 | It might be but it might not be either , ’ he says . |
| 19 | Over seventy he might be but he had retained all his faculties . |
| 20 | Erm the speed with which we dealt with item one is encouraging or rather it 's somebody might be but item two again maybe if proposals which perhaps er a little controversy . |
| 21 | I do n't know whether he 's going to that , he might be but this was , this , he was up sort of seeing , meeting all the Labour Party candidates for the north west . |
| 22 | Jackie phoned me up to say , she phoned me up today for a chat , we were chatting away and she said erm , I heard Brenda , Brenda , so I knew it was girl , and er , I was saying she walked straight into the kitchen and I was sort of still on the phone , I was saying yeah , yeah , ok and erm , I said I 'm going out shopping and I 'm taking the dog with me , I said ok fair enough , she said well you 'll probably be gone when I get back , I said oh might be but she said but I do n't know and erm you know and I just put the phone down cos she wanted to see the pictures , my little girl asked put all the pictures up for him and er were looking at all the pictures and I 'd forgotten about Jack on the phone you know , so she s all of a sudden I got back she said oh your phone call she said who you talking too ? |
| 23 | She might be but er she 'd got the same red skirt on as she had she were wearing when we were there ! |
| 24 | Might be but I doubt it so no it 's not John Major but it was a good thought Terry . |
| 25 | Searching through that there might be but I to choose |
| 26 | In the morning there came an ominous indication , although it still could be but threat . |
| 27 | Nenna felt sure that there was no-one that it could be but Edward . |
| 28 | It could be but I think that the question is asking is , in Plato 's view , do each of us have an equal chance of performing this transcendence , or in view do we each have an equal chance of performing this transcendence ? |
| 29 | They could be but I would n't have thought so . |
| 30 | He could be but not the sort of merchant you 're thinking of there were lots of merchants in those days those merchants who build up places like they were Greek merchants , in fact they were called merchant venturers were n't they ? |