Example sentences of "[noun pl] but [pron] [vb base] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such statistics aid our understanding of population movements but they mask the bewildering complexity that was the reality of the situation . |
| 2 | We know very little about their lives but we get a strong sense of the individuality of each one in their writings . |
| 3 | ‘ I had been visiting hospitals every week for 37 years but you get a different perspective after something like this . |
| 4 | They are not competent to make business judgments but they have a special skill in detecting and thwarting management self-dealing . |
| 5 | Ideally the Civic Society would like to see far more drastic policy change , possibly thinking in terms of forty hectares but we realize the minimum possible would be the thirty point five hectares which is hanging over from the first phase of the structure plan , and so that must of course be regarded as committed . |
| 6 | ‘ I know that people are not going out of their way to create problems but I believe the national side has a great role to play in terms of providing players with status , confidence and a substantially increased market value . |
| 7 | The industry still has problems but I sense an increasing willingness for its component parts to work together for the common good . |
| 8 | You get some boys join the police , they 're blessed with brains but they 've no common sense . |
| 9 | We have not provided any questions specifically based upon these case studies but they provide a valuable base for further questions and exercises for students . |
| 10 | It 's not a big deal in the scheme of things but you get an awful lot of hassle when all your mates are going to university , or start bringing home the bacon . |
| 11 | They 're not exactly specialist agencies but they have a great deal of experience and they have a commitment to a certain kind of research , and they have , I mean we 've had our run-ins with them as it were , but they have listened , and they 've supported some of our work as well , and I think that they in time will provide a kind of model as it were for a number of erm perhaps less experienced agencies throughout the world , newly set-up ones , as to how it is possible to do consistently good logical rational work in the face of the chaos that a disaster produces . |
| 12 | ( Would that it did , for there are many shops who pretentiously call themselves tobacconists but who stock a meagre number of vulgar brands . ) |
| 13 | It makes me cough a bit because when I came on the scene he was the one academically everything and she was the one who was academically rather disadvantaged but she , she was , you know , no not having the greatest of , of , of success but erm it was said that she would n't be able to be a student nurse because she was n't bright enough but you know she clocked up the O levels and A levels like guide badges and she went off on this pre-nursing course in South Notts you know and she was in and out of the Queens on a course and people and , you know , and she said I do n't know all the answers but I 've a rough idea about some of the questions , I want to be a nurse and off she went to , to , to Walsall and I 'm not saying she 's a brilliant student nurse but erm absolutely clear that she 's better than some of the others . |
| 14 | B-trees are also multi-level indexes but they have a tree-structured index and perform much better ( particularly in the way they can absorb new records ) . |