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  • We could produce a clone, yes-but to transfer consciousness?

    The Beast That Resembles A Poem(A Handy Resource for Architects,Engineers, and Students) 2010

  • Glib, funny, yes-but could someone with his gift for projecting irritation be happy?

    A Groundhog Has His Day 2008

  • Animation should play to its strengths-which are many, sure-and some are untapped, yes-but that doesn't mean the issue of whether the characters in a story are animals or humans has anything to do with it.

    The Cartoon Studios on the L.A. River Steve Hulett 2008

  • Somewhere along the way, I realized that yes-but fight conversations were a waste of time, I couldn't win, and what I came up with, should they start down that road, was a good way to short-stop them: "Okay, what would you do if I did this?"

    Yeah, but what if I did This ... ? Steve Perry 2006

  • Somewhere along the way, I realized that yes-but fight conversations were a waste of time, I couldn't win, and what I came up with, should they start down that road, was a good way to short-stop them: "Okay, what would you do if I did this?"

    Archive 2006-10-01 Steve Perry 2006

  • He was happy-oh yes-but he was as much shocked as he was happy.

    Aerie Lackey, Mercedes 2006

  • Rhetorical question, yes-but the answer immediately popped into my mind: I'd be alone in this very big house, that's where I'd be, and it did not strike me as a very good idea.

    Beacon Street Mourning Day, Dianne 2000

  • He was alive, yes-but thoroughly lost in the wilderness with nothing more than his belt knife and the clothes on his back.

    And Other Tales Of Valdemar Lackey, Mercedes 1997

  • "Well, yes-but -" "And don't you think after all this that if Vkandis perceived your presence here as detrimental to Karse you would have been recalled by now?" she continued mercilessly.

    Storm Rising Lackey, Mercedes 1995

  • "Well, yes-but -" "And don't you think after all this that if Vkandis perceived your presence here as detrimental to Karse you would have been recalled by now?" she continued mercilessly.

    Storm Rising Lackey, Mercedes 1995

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