Example sentences of "but [subord] [pron] can [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The long-running recession has meant that interest in these properties is low , but if they can be sold the cash raised will be put back into further improving the remaining operations . |
| 2 | But if they can be measured they may help us relate fertility decisions to the values , meanings , or signs which people use to make sense of the world and which motivate or justify their actions . |
| 3 | The timing of the move to other pastures may be dependent on other farming activities , but if it can be delayed until October or later and accompanied by an anthelmintic treatment then eggs from any worms which survive the treatment are unlikely to develop due to the unfavourable winter temperatures . |
| 4 | But if it can be proven that overfishing of sand-eel is the principal cause of the problem , we can only hope that remedial action can be taken before it is too late for our important sea-bird colonies to recover . |
| 5 | Feeding : They are a hardy species , but unless they can be switched from their natural diet onto freeze-dried Tubifex worms , Norwegian brine shrimp or live worms , between eight to ten weeks , they almost always die . |
| 6 | There are no easy answers , but unless they can be found Europeans run the very real risk of seriously damaging one of the few remaining natural resources available to them . |
| 7 | I see nothing to regret in this , not because new ideas should not be examined , but because it can be done better . |
| 8 | But before they can be used they must go through a market process through the shops . |
| 9 | But before anything can be put into the hands of the worshipper , many people are involved in its production . |
| 10 | Archives and museums keep objects that hold information and they store information about the entities ( i.e. objects ) they hold , but whether they can be said to hold knowledge in the same way libraries do is debatable . |
| 11 | But whether it can be achieved on such a traditionalist agenda is rather more doubtful . |
| 12 | Consequently the question asked is not whether antitrust decisions lead to the greatest economic efficiency but whether it can be said , given the non-economic reasons for antitrust policy , that these decisions do any serious harm . |
| 13 | Does he concede also that the question is not whether the war can be won , but whether it can be won with fewer casualties ? |