Example sentences of "but it [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finance was clearly an anxiety , but it may even have strengthened Gloucester 's hand . |
| 2 | Finance was clearly an anxiety , but it may even have strengthened Gloucester 's hand . |
| 3 | To make them pure for drinking purposes is , perhaps , impossible ; but it may reasonably be hoped that they may become sufficiently so to delight the eye and to repress the pestiferous and sickening exhalations which at present affect the multitudes of our population compelled to pass their lives on the bank of such rivers . |
| 4 | But it may soon be forgotten , because now comes the bad news : the All Blacks arrive tomorrow . |
| 5 | This may be because these goals have changed , but it may equally be because the social world for which the original policies were designed has changed . |
| 6 | One could perhaps likewise argue that the joining of the office of muderris of Suleyman 's medrese in Damascus with the muftilik in this case the muftilik certainly predated the medrese was an attempt to strengthen the position of the Hanafi mufti , or , alternatively , an attempt to " Ottomanize " the muftilik , since with the foundation of the medrese the joint post passed at least temporarily from the hands of local scholars into those of Ottoman scholars ; but it may equally well be that Suleyman was doing no more than following established custom in assigning the muderrislik to the mufti . |
| 7 | Hopefully the new home which you are now considering as a prospective purchase will be suitable for your needs in every way , but it may well be that a need for some renovation or refurbishment is indicated from the surveyor 's report or that you will wish to make improvements or alterations of your own . |
| 8 | But it may well be a happy life , and that we may be taking away . |
| 9 | They do , however , run a yearly course in sexually transmitted diseases in Santiago , but it may well take more than that to make any impression at all on disease levels . |
| 10 | ‘ But it may well be so . ’ |
| 11 | That could have been done anyway if the disposition were in a will , but it may well be that it is in a codicil or other document to which the nuncupatio did not apply . |
| 12 | If permission is refused to a Part I application , no direct compensation is paid , but it may well be possible to compel the local authority to purchase the property compulsorily if it can be shown that the property has no reasonable beneficial use . |
| 13 | The issue is not one of having to choose between a partner and a sport or hobby , but it may well be the choice between a partner and the complete freedom to please oneself . |
| 14 | But it may well appeal to those who like very dry wine . |
| 15 | ‘ That is strict procedure but it may well be that we need to have another look . |
| 16 | The devolving of financial responsibility to schools , not only reduces the power and influence of LEAs , but it may well encourage schools at some future point to consider opting out of local authority control altogether . |
| 17 | This ‘ new look ’ need not , of course , exclude older interpretations ; but it may well rejuvenate preaching . |
| 18 | Member States would normally be given eighteen months within which to incorporate the directive objectives into their domestic laws , but it may well be that in this case a shorter period is specified . |
| 19 | But it may well be that , like Whistler , Mr Rocke did not make notes but simply took a steady look and remembered . |
| 20 | Remember that the age of heterosexual consent is now 16 in England , Scotland , Wales and Northern Ireland — but it may well be different in some other countries . |
| 21 | But it may well be that his prolonged failure ( now happily corrected ) to achieve political success was attributable to long memories . |
| 22 | The reasons for this are difficult to establish but it may well be that the university expansion coincided with an even greater expansion of candidates with A levels , with the result that competition for university places did not ease . |
| 23 | The reason for this divergence is not known , but it may well be that the conditions used for DNaseI treatment do not allow the formation of stable complexes resistant to the action of the enzyme . |
| 24 | The unique number , which must of course appear on the cost printout , will enable management to identify each individual docket but it may well be a laborious process to extract the costing details for one subsection of a project from the filing for the whole company . |
| 25 | If the old wires are in good condition the new terminal assembly can be joined on to them , but it may well be better to replace the whole assembly . |
| 26 | But it may well be , with something like Jayne 's workshop that she ran with with Graham , |
| 27 | Partly for this reason , no decision has yet been taken on this matter but it may well feature quite soon on the agenda of the Welsh Advisory Body . |
| 28 | In what follows , the traditional view — that Molla Fenari studied under Cemaleddin Aksarayi in Aksaray in Karamanis accepted , but it may well be that " Amasya " ought to be substituted for " Karaman " in the appropriate contexts . |
| 29 | Asik Celebi says no more about Molla Fenari 's fate , but it may well be that it was alter this experience that Molla Fenari went to Karaman . |
| 30 | People are always complaining that they do not have enough work space/dumping space , but it may well be what they really need is better organized storage . |