Example sentences of "[noun sg] [unc] but [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | of the , the national average and it 's not because erm they 're paying high wages to get the , the most able people , it 's because there are mechanisms , institutional mechanisms that keep wages high , there 's no market in the jobs for , th these are generalizations but I think they are fairly , fairly true erm becau there is no market for er for the jobs , for civil service jobs that appointments are made and it is much more important who you know than , than what , what you know and the old boy network , as it 's called , in this country is fairly important in the English Civil Service but a similar sort of network tends to be far more important in developing countries , something that is euphemistically called patronage erm but we might call the old boy network or er er jobs for the boys whatever , but erm |
2 | Yes ar are not that good but I 'm working at it on a sort of regional basis erm but you may have to keep me here for a very long time in order to achieve it . |
3 | ‘ We are still in business and still functioning as normal for this year 's but we might have to revert to a one-day show in 1993 , ’ added Mr Steel . |
4 | But I prefer Lionel , I 'll go round the supermarket 's but I 'll shop at Lionel 's on the way back . |
5 | " Your chapeau does n't look as pretty as your mother 's but it will save you from sunstroke just as effectively . " |
6 | Erm , and so too our body has got stuck on our soul erm but we can shed it again erm to find our inner self . |