Example sentences of "but they [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Conservatives would not always win under the electoral system of 1918 , but they would rarely do so badly as to allow anyone else to win . |
| 2 | Jill Kelly has volunteered to set-up the Society stand and man it on Saturday and Elsie Streek will on Sunday but they would both appreciate some help , to give them a break during the day , from amy teacher who will be there . |
| 3 | The giant herbivorous dinosaurs would have been the first to go , as plant matter became scarce , but they would soon be followed by the large carnivores that had preyed upon them . |
| 4 | But they would soon forget . |
| 5 | But they would soon tell that they would have their before they would go to bed and thanks er very much when getting the bed and you could er vouch for that they would never . |
| 6 | There would probably be some results , but they would probably be somewhat superficial , and the knowledge gleaned would be of a general rather than a specific nature . |
| 7 | This is not to say that no one who has left China since 1980 has had dissident tendencies , but they would probably keep these concealed before being allowed out . |
| 8 | Donaldson was n't too happy about his placing in the room — the light was behind him and against Mrs Balanchine , the complete opposite of the ideal — but they would probably manage . |
| 9 | There appears to be no authority on the point , but they would probably not be understood differently , in view of the court 's use of the word " erroneous " in Jones ( M ) v Jones ( R R ) [ 1971 ] 1 WLR 840 . |
| 10 | They would often be put in the stocks until they sobered up , but they would invariably lapse again as soon as they were freed . |
| 11 | Southern protestants do not appear to be particularly oppressed by the state ( White 1975 : 169 ) , but they would clearly change aspects of the constitution and legislation if they were in a position to do so . |
| 12 | I , produced a list of what 's already inside here , er , these calculate are the files registered , they 're not numbered so they would n't be registered , but they would surely |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | As we saw , most modern anthropologists would , like Morgan , stress the corporate character of descent groups and would agree that these groups can not be understood as large families [ Fortes , 1953 ] , but they would also stress that some kind of individual domestic unit seems to normally exist in societies with descent groups . |
| 15 | ‘ The French hate London , but they would also object to Bonn , Rome , Brussels … you name it . |
| 16 | But they would also make a more damning inquiry : ‘ If the Labour Party does not believe in democratic socialism , what is the Labour Party for ? ’ |
| 17 | Not only would their number have to be increased but they would also need to undergo years of specialized training for which they would expect a commensurate reward . |
| 18 | Not only would they point to economic forces which limit those choices but they would also point out that the resultant individual choices lead to an impoverishment of products , to the Sun and not the Independent , to Sunday Sport and not News-on-Sunday . |
| 19 | ORTF and ex-ORTF companies , and public service broadcasting organizations in 1990 , would be governed by texts ( laws , ordinances , decrees , rules and regulations ( that constituted a growing corpus of communications law , but they would also be subject to texts governing all public services , and , of course , to the Constitution itself . ’ |
| 20 | They would be explicit , coarse , probably , and almost undoubtedly sexist ; but they would also be straightforward and easily understood . |
| 21 | Such projects are all worth while in their own terms , but they would also bring direct benefits to the construction industry and should be introduced and stimulated . |
| 22 | Let's suppose BA did get its foot in the City Airport 's door — they would obviously use some of their Heathrow 's landing slots and operate on that route but they would also want to fly to Birmingham , Glasgow , Manchester and perhaps Edinburgh . |
| 23 | Its eradication would inevitably be painful and the miseries of the people would be intense ; but they would even so be light compared with the miseries of eternal enslavement at the wheel of poverty and relief works . |
| 24 | They are happy to see me doing well , but they would never force me into anything I did n't want to do . ’ |
| 25 | People would marvel at his cleverness , but they would never understand the person beneath it . |
| 26 | ‘ But they would never have reacted to just our pictures or our ceramics . |
| 27 | ‘ Rough you up a little , yes ; but they would never have killed you . |
| 28 | Because you 're seen in public and you do sing in public , there 's a lot of people that sing but as you say it 's sometimes just in their own homes or they used to but they would never sing in public , they used to sing in the choir . |
| 29 | But they would never take 'em out for day |
| 30 | This generation of new men might not have been elected but for the war but they would certainly have been trying to get elected in a general election in 1915 . |