Example sentences of "[adj] but [pron] [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I did n't want to burden you with this but you 'd soon have wondered why Mackie did n't come . ’ |
| 2 | His sonorous voice and deliberate utterance may to a great extent account for this but it should also be remarked that as Highbury Quadrant was the first church to introduce the Electrophone , perfection has been probably acquired by long practice in the details requisite to success . ’ |
| 3 | The thought of risk and high danger was exciting but it must also have been distorting . |
| 4 | Flow on this stretch is usually sluggish but today , with the extra water , the flow is much quicker but I should still be able to use a waggler . |
| 5 | Sir , to do summat to do like she was paralysed but she could still feel the pain ? |
| 6 | The setting might appear incongruous but it can also be seen as being particularly poignant . |
| 7 | Nevertheless his career reveals the strong point of a ‘ heroic ’ view of evil , the weak point of a Boethian one : if you regard evil as something internal , to be pitied , more harmful to the malefactor than the victim , you may be philosophically consistent but you may also be exposing others to sacrifices to which they have not consented ( like being murdered by Viking ravagers or , as The Lord of the Rings was being written , being herded into gas-chambers ) . |
| 8 | things are actually outside but you can still imagine them in your mind if you ca n't see them |
| 9 | I did n't know Basil very much but I shall always remember with joy and gratitude that painting course at Grantly Hall — what fun it was . |
| 10 | I wish it was quite so simple but it would certainly be a boost for us . ’ |
| 11 | It is certainly what would be expected if the latent inhibitor functions like a CS- but it could just as easily be a consequence of generalization decrement — adding another stimulus to the excitatory CS might modify the way in which the latter is perceived and thus reduce its ability to evoke the CR . |
| 12 | The senses are oversensitive and burning pains are characteristic but there may also be stinging , stabbing , tearing , cutting pains with numbness , tingling and crawling . |
| 13 | The return journey was supposed to start at half past three but there would always be a few people missing . |
| 14 | Initially a pitch of a ♯ = 408 was chosen as being close to the Bate Collection 's recorders of the period : at this pitch it sounds fine but one could easily allow that the original use of the instrument might have been at a higher pitch than this . |
| 15 | You think that 's especially true and like say Aberdeen if you go in a shop there and and , at least it used to be the case , and asked for something you be thought you were speaking fine but they would just say , Oh my you down from Orkney for a holiday ? |
| 16 | The number 10 40 may be very large but we can still write it down , and we can still use it in calculations . |
| 17 | He suddenly felt cold but he could also feel the sweat running down the sides of his face . |
| 18 | Well we 'd like to see at lea at least down to fifty but we 'd really like to probe and push towards forty if we could . |
| 19 | She could be described as prejudiced but she can no more be called a racist than a rape victim who hates men can be called sexist . |
| 20 | It might not be complete but it 'll certainly give us some of them . |
| 21 | He was asleep but he 'd just take him home . |
| 22 | It probably wants it hyphenated but we 'll just say skip , if you 're happy with the spelling . |
| 23 | If you use milk it might not go completely solid but you should still manage to get some lumps of frozen milk . |
| 24 | Walsh added : ‘ I expect James 's ankle to be right but I 'll probably start him from the bench and let him make an explosive entrance . |
| 25 | But if you can raise that profile which I talk about , the of the ethics of of your trade , your profession and become , in effect , a pressure group , a pressure group for the public good , while we may not always agree with you , and indeed we 're going to say that we do n't agree with you and you must n't be afraid of that but we would rather hear from you , you 're the men and women at the sharp end , I hesitate to say ‘ experts ’ because ‘ expert ’ is a , a rather over-used word but we 'd much rather hear from you , at the sharp end , than the part-time politicians who , by the very nature of , of their role , and however well-meaning they may be , they have other priorities . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , er , ’ said the vicar , ‘ I 'm not so sure about that but I 'll certainly ring the church bells . ’ |
| 27 | Well we have n't got the cards for that but you can still buy it and I 'll give you a credit card or something to use instead . |
| 28 | It 's quite a common event in , and it can be two types , it can be either fixed or flexible , if it 's fixed it means the foot is in a position that you ca n't move out of if it 's flexible it means that the baby has its foot like that but you can actually rotate it |
| 29 | This special pleading is , no doubt , partly emotional but it might very well include reference to children 's lack of knowledge and understanding . |
| 30 | That may or may not be applicable but I 'll just bring it in and dump it on you . |