Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] but [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah he was more real I mean when you sort of just sit there she , she threw me off track a few times but er he was more realistic so therefore . |
| 2 | Erm it is this weeks but erm I wo n't be calling in . |
| 3 | I think that they may be frightened to speak up and that they 're scared that if they say something that they do n't know , like a lot of them do n't know the facts , like today , in the same class as Janine across there , some of them did n't know even the very the pro , progression of the male pill or anything like that , and they did learn a few things but a again they never spoke up and they were n't interested , but I |
| 4 | No , I mean I know that is is not exactly pertinent to the application that is er in , erm I my personal view is that that that bungalows are are practical , we have had it stated by one resident that a house and a bungalow would be acceptable , erm not that I am er anticipating any other planning develop er applications by these applicants but er would a house of a similar nature to one of these that they have proposed , plus a bungalow er , would we have as much opposition to this , to that as as the present ones , or you would prefer to defer until you saw it ? |
| 5 | I do n't suppose the unions would put up with it these days but er ha there were n't such things as unions for nurses in those days . |
| 6 | it 's quite , quite , quite , quite rare I have a spare moment these days but er yeah please do er give us a knock when you 've finished here . |
| 7 | Well I hope fairly broad on these figures but er So what we have here er as I understand it , is a broad series of options |
| 8 | I know that some British civil servants are making considerable efforts to improve erm in these terms but erm I think we 've still got a long way to go in appreciating the importance of at least being able to understand somebody else 's language , erm even if you ca n't always erm communicate in it as well as you can in your own . |
| 9 | Er we started off with seven hundred and seventy five pounds , seventy six , at the beginning of the year er the membership is only thirty seven , we have fewer members but er that 's a very small proportion of our income . |
| 10 | Erm one of the best known commentators on the American president , a man called Richard Newstat er who 's occasionally known as Mr Williams because he 's married to er Shirley Williams a clapped-out Social Democratic politician of er yesteryear , erm Richard Newstat once said , well once said many things but er on this particular occasion said that er if you want to know what presidential power is , it is simply the power to persuade and that er when you look for er an American president what you need to look for er is not somebody who is clear minded , far sighted and so on but you need somebody who has the capacity the skill , the talent , to persuade other people to do what he wants them to do . |
| 11 | Er what would you be able to manage on , sort of thing and I said about two hundred and fifty a year and er , you know , that was quite realistic in those days but erm obviously it would n't go very far now , would it ? |
| 12 | Right now well all I , I ex I knew that you were having meetings about it so really all , all I need you to do is actually get this validated by your group and if there were any change significant changes you wanted to make then to come back to me and David with that those suggestions but erm it struck me that th the thing hangs together quite well . |
| 13 | Y you do n't need to get to quite to those lengths but er |
| 14 | Yes , we have to fight for our equality , for our own rights but w we can change men and our , the responsibility is not for women to change men , it 's for women to change our own lives , our own situations , and for we , men to change their own . |
| 15 | but most days but erm and the bar 's right across the door and last week when I went out they still had er er one or two bits of Christmas stuff in the one window and some balls of er in there . |