Example sentences of "but they [modal v] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are not much to look at but they may contain oil , which is why the Philippines keeps a garrison there . |
| 2 | Naturally the library should be careful in its choice of business association ( from the point of view of image ) but the advantage of such joint efforts is not only that promotional costs may be saved but they may generate income for the library . |
| 3 | But they might affect birth spacing . |
| 4 | Yeah , but they might arrest daddy at the same time . |
| 5 | But they 'll take stage victories , not the big prizes , and may often be deployed as super-domestiques to younger and more eager men . |
| 6 | ’ But they 'll keep glamour boy busy till we 're well away from here . |
| 7 | Admittedly they enjoy live daphnia , as do all my fish , but they will eat flake food as well as floating pellets , and freeze dried tubiflex worms . |
| 8 | These laws are not perfect and will not satisfy everyone in the Church , but they will achieve provision for women to be ordained as priests — and at the same time seek to respect the consciences of those opposed . |
| 9 | We may not like or respect our superiors , for example , but they will have power over us just because they occupy a position above us in the organisational hierarchy . |
| 10 | Now I think , er and I 'm sure that Mrs will , I 've I 've got other information as well , that we could , I , I , I 'd like to recommend that we had an on going petition which could be in Welfare Rights , the Town Hall , The Libraries , but there 's no , I do n't think there 's an opposition to such a thing , whereby we ask for a P D S A clinic in Harlow , I 'm sure there 's room round where they were sit , sited before , and I do n't know , you know , I 'd like to know what Mrs 's thinks , also I 've got information er , a , following lots of phone calls erm there is an organisation called The Blue Cross , they have a clinic in Victoria and they 're , they have a head office in Oxford and they will help if they know the name of the vet and have the invoice and I 'm afraid it 's tested , but they will help pensioner 's and other low paid people to meet there bill 's , so that 's another outcome , while were doing the petition . |
| 11 | But they will begin life by taking the 20 years ' accumulation of magnesium oxide cladding from around uranium fuel rods used in the Magnox reactors . |
| 12 | Smokers do have the right to damage their own health but they can pass bronchitis , sore throats and worse on to those around them . |
| 13 | The more slopes to a roof , the greater the scope for the unusual , but they can restrict size . |
| 14 | But they can delay ratification of the treaties . |
| 15 | The peasants might have even less electricity than the town-dwellers , but they could collect wood for fuel and could find foodstuffs available only on the black market in the urban centres . |
| 16 | But they should draw comfort from the knowledge that the economists involved often found it hard to understand one another . |
| 17 | Yes , but they used to say cigar smoking 's not as bad as cigarette smoking . |
| 18 | But they must control unit production costs and respond more to market specifications . |
| 19 | They know it 's been over two years since your illness , but they 'd appreciate reassurance . |