Example sentences of "[vb infin] but [pron] [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether that is it , I do n't know but it could well be . |
| 2 | Erm I do n't know but there may well be activities for the divisional staff outside Trident , related to work |
| 3 | The industry deserves better consideration and the country needs the benefits that recovery and growth in our industry could bring but which may well be sabotaged by inappropriate Government cuts . |
| 4 | When the issue is not of a split in attitudes ( " I will compete but I will also borrow and lend " ) the head is unlikely to find enthusiasm or coercion an appropriate tool of management . |
| 5 | I think it 's also worth just bearing in mind that we 're talking about only one percent of the erm of the farmed land i in this county , we 're not talking about banning hunting in in er in Leicestershire , we 're talking about what we 're saying on one percent there are tens of thousand of fields in in this county nothing can change overnight , even if this er motion goes through because the tenants will still have the rights to decide , it 's only when you actually start getting to new tenancy agreements that you will be in a position if you wish , to start to change things and therefore I suppose at the end of erm , at the end of five years you might have a hundred or two hundred fields on which this ban will apply but you will still have tens of thousand of fields on which the , the hunt will still be , the hunts in this county will still be free to , erm , to operate . |
| 6 | Our mortal bodies may die but we will never die . |
| 7 | Approximately that now I 've it 's very y'know woolly , most people do n't bother but you should really do the scatter plot to see whether a relationship is linear as opposed to something like that which would be curvier linear . |
| 8 | Now , Freud was n't saying that every time you dream about an umbrella you 're , you 're dreaming some kind of sexual wish , erm , but what he 's saying is that umbrellas and other things that can erm become erect or open out often do represent but you could conceivably have an umbrella dream in which the umbrella , through your private associations , stood for something completely different , it 's quite , it 's quite possible . |
| 9 | ‘ It was not the sort of thing you would normally say but you can maybe understand his point of view . |
| 10 | There 's a lot of talk about forgiving or forgetting is n't there , some people say I can forgive but I can never forget . |