Example sentences of "but [pron] can " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ian was later murdered by a terrorist bomb but nothing can destroy the memory of a unique politician and man . |
| 2 | ‘ But nothing can be more important than the Business Plan , ’ Mark insisted . |
| 3 | Other things may play their part in helping us to understand , but nothing can take its place . |
| 4 | The caffeine gives her numbed brain cells a temporary boost but nothing can increase the speed with which the body disposes of alcohol , and the coffee does n't make her any more sober . |
| 5 | People try to beat that misery with barbiturates , but nothing can cure it because you 've taken away from yourself all chance of feeling pleasure . |
| 6 | Nowadays , it is rather more garish , a popular halt for coaches , but nothing can detract from the superb views over the rocky coast and lovely sands , the road serving as a promenade . |
| 7 | After Titania 's quatrains — the most artificial verse-form in drama , presupposing as it does that the speaker has four lines already prepared , with rhymes , confident of not being interrupted — Bottom 's prose truly belongs to the world of unromantic everyday appetites : Bottom may have been ‘ translated ’ in shape , but nothing can elevate him to verse and romance — apart , ironically enough , from his role as Pyramus , out of whose Pistol-like doggerel he is ever ready to step in order to explain the play : ‘ She is to enter now , and I am to spy her through the wall . |
| 8 | In other words , deviance can be used to suggest and support hypotheses about style ; but nothing can be adduced from , or proved by , statistics alone . |
| 9 | Things can go in , but nothing can get out . |
| 10 | Data files for use by computers might contain data about fonts and help systems , but nothing can be done with that information without the assistance of a program file containing the relevant instructions . |
| 11 | But nothing can be shown to remain absolutely invariable over any length of time ; so how can we be certain that identity can be legitimately applied to anything ? |
| 12 | But nothing can take away the pleasure that I derived from looking at what I took to be a photograph . |
| 13 | But nothing can alter the fact that all propositions about experiences can in principle be paraphrased into propositions about certain neuro-physiological events — if not without any sacrifice of meaning , then certainly without any loss of truth . |
| 14 | The event horizon , the boundary of the region of space-time from which it is not possible to escape , acts rather like a one-way membrane around the black hole : objects , such as unwary astronauts , can fall through the event horizon into the black hole , but nothing can ever get out of the black hole through the event horizon . |
| 15 | An optimist says , things were bad in the past , are still bad , but nothing can be worse than this . ’ |
| 16 | But nothing can make up for the fact that any improvements in prescribing practice are too late to save Lexie . |
| 17 | I 've cut down on all the exercise I felt necessary to do and always have fourth helpings but nothing can bring back my third chin , I do n't know what to do , ’ said the man . |
| 18 | It is rumoured to contain many answers but no-one can open it . ’ |
| 19 | We try to talk about what we like as erotica , but no-one can agree , one person 's erotica being another 's porn . |
| 20 | But no-one can doubt his steel . |
| 21 | But no-one can offer any hope of a proper home for Heidi . |
| 22 | No doubt , most will require considerable assistance to be able to participate effectively ; but no-one can be forced to engage in a conversation with sincerity . |
| 23 | But no-one can predict how new joints will last . |
| 24 | ‘ Sometimes this is not popular with fans , but no-one can argue with our progress over the past two years and our present position . ’ |
| 25 | Erm , maybe not , but everyone can hit a cross-court volley in Pro Tennis Tour . |
| 26 | ‘ Not every hotelier can plant trees but everyone can ask questions about their food . |
| 27 | It 's true that extracts such as Phoebe 's ‘ Think not that I love him … ’ from As You Like It ( Act 3 , Scene 5 ) or Viola 's ‘ 1 left no ring with her … ’ from Twelfth Night ( Act 2 , Scene 2 ) may be all too well known to a panel , but I can not agree with an adjudication policy that would ban these pieces from the audition . |
| 28 | Perhaps there is still something in it , but I can no longer see it . |
| 29 | I am a great fan of Monica Seles but I can not believe all the letters about these two players . |
| 30 | There must have been text books around at one time but I can not even identify any titles let alone suppliers . |