Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [vb -s] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A word gets around the famine is over and after the tragic experience of loosing her family , her three men in her life , her husband and her sons , nobody starts to consider the situation again , she 's alone now in a foreign , a strange land , surely the only sensible thing for her to do would be to return to her own people in Bethlehem , they say news comes through that they 've been a succession of good harvest , well of course there was gon na be good harvest , god had n't forsaken his people , although they had sinned , although they had done what was wrong , he had n't forsaken them , gods not in the business for forsaken people , he 's long suffering , he is faithful , he keeps his covenant from one generation to another that he had n't forgotten the people in Bethlehem and he had sent them through and he had provided good harvests those who had remained in Bethlehem during the famine , they 'd only suffered for a short time , perhaps enough time to bring them to their senses , to bring them back to god , now the suffering was forgotten as they revelled in a plentiful supplying in abundant harvests Naomi on the other hand she knows want now , she 's suffering bereavement , she 's suffering poverty , she 's suffering remorse , there 's nothing for her in Noad , there 's no rest , no joy , no provision , nothing that could meet her needs what a pity she had wasted there those ten wasted those ten years , ten long wasted years in her life now she comes to a decision whatever the cost and there is a cost , she 's gon na have to eat humble pie , how are they gon na receive her when she goes back but she comes to that decision that no matter what it costs her , she will go back to the place that was chosen for her by god , her inheritance of him It always to our cost when we under value our inheritance , do you remember the story of Jacob and Aesop and how Aesop despised his birth right , the inheritance that was his , and Illuminarc and Naomi had done the same , and you and I can do it so easily , leaving , forgetting , not entering in to the inheritance that is ours in Christ , we do it to our own costs , and so she goes through that I 'm gon na go back , I 'm gon na take up my inheritance , I 'm going back home . |
| 2 | ‘ I did n't know the lady as well as you , sir , but she seems in all particulars to have been a pretty clubbable woman . ’ |
| 3 | He can walk and his speech is not affected , but he suffers from poor concentration and intermittent double vision . |
| 4 | He 's not truly backward , but he suffers from some kind of learning dysfunctionalism . ’ |
| 5 | But he suffers from motor neurone disease and needs twenty-four hour care . |
| 6 | Well , perhaps this is a few too many , but he knows after many years ' experience that he can ask for this and that it is necessary . |
| 7 | Dubois does not have the most winning of voices — there 's a suggestion of a whining edge which becomes apparent at times of stress — but he sings with some intelligence and sensitivity to the words and music . |
| 8 | Indra , while still retaining traces of his ‘ weather ’ origin , is no longer , to borrow Miss Harrison 's descriptive phrase , ‘ an automatic explosive thunder-storm , ’ he wields the thunderbolt certainly , but he appears in heroic form to receive the offerings made to him , and to celebrate his victory in a solemn ritual dance . |
| 9 | The Act provided no definition of a ‘ public place ’ , but it refers to any place to which the public have access , irrespective of whether or not they have a legal right to go there , even when there are particular and restricted rules of entry . |
| 10 | It do n't really sound like the tune , but it fits in real well with the rest of them . |
| 11 | Systems theory is a useful way of identifying complex entities , particularly those which have a functional unity and of talking about relationships but it remains at some level of abstraction from reality . |
| 12 | That 's something we , we , that 's what we found and one of the things we have got is this youth bus actually operating in the town and it erm , it 's running three nights a week , we ca n't cover every bit of the town , but it goes to different area 's of the town , The Stow , and Old Harlow , I mean we 've actually got quite good relationship 's with , with , with the young people in Old Harlow , but erm , I mean we ca n't cover every night , I mean there is a problem , of erm , you know , you you get from a position where you recognise it , you , you , you need to start catering for a particular group and it takes a long time getting there . |
| 13 | It does not supersede the more detailed and specific provisions covering certain equipment contained in existing legislation , but it goes beyond such provisions in requiring a more wide-ranging assessment of risk . |
| 14 | There is a possible solution to this problem , but it goes against standard phoneme theory . |
| 15 | Taking a funeral policy can cost less than paying for a funeral plan by instalments but it depends on average life expectancy . |
| 16 | I do n't need to erm elaborate much more Okay , the give it , give it a mechanical structure , well that does n't necessarily apply to some of the things that we 've done but it does to other parts and if you 're gon na discuss somebody 's model , think about it in the real world . |
| 17 | A study from the British Medical Association says levels of contamination from pesticides are rarely deadly , but it calls for more research into long term effects . |
| 18 | ‘ These data provide a plausible explanation for the French paradox , ’ says the Lancet , but it calls for further studies . |
| 19 | The C E C believes that this is not only unfair , but it interferes with local government democracy and free collective bargaining and should be opposed . |
| 20 | In the mental health field the voluntary sector is , on the whole , well organized and effective but it suffers from lower levels of charitable donations compared with more immediately appealing charities such as those for children , cancer research or research into heart disease . |
| 21 | In many ways it is a BoP lookalike — the technology must be very similar for the two programs — but it differs in many respects . |
| 22 | But it strikes on particular things , it strikes on something rough , but you never quite know , know what , not , no good trying it out because you never quite know whether it 's going to strike or not , when you get to be older , we 'll allow you to strike a match , but you have to be quite older to do that |
| 23 | We would not like to get into the New Zealand situation of ranching , but it seems in many senses we are already there . |
| 24 | Timidity in pop will get you nowhere , but it makes for great listening . |
| 25 | I still think highly of that set but it comes on three discs — and even taking Hyperion 's cheaper price into consideration , you will make quite a saving on the newer set . |
| 26 | Mary White , the secretary of the Mount Leinster MAG warned , ‘ You may think this going to be a small hole gouged out of the mountain but it reaches for five miles on top of Tomduff . |
| 27 | This need not mean that the private/public distinction vanishes altogether but it applies to different domains . |
| 28 | But it flares to acrid life again with the explosion of a second property boom in the 1980s . |
| 29 | This system is better than the absolute waste of pulping , but it leads to major breakdowns of a kind that the private libraries would not have allowed under any circumstances . |
| 30 | This process can be painful and revealing but it leads to greater self-awareness — the first step to unambiguous communication . |