Example sentences of "but words " in BNC.
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| 1 | While nothing had been expressed it was fine , but words bloody words and a self-conscious constraint was thrust upon them . |
| 2 | ‘ Covenants , without the sword , are but words , and of no strength to secure a man at all . ’ |
| 3 | In earlier times the judge would rule on the sufficiency of the provocation , and the result of this was rather narrow and legalistic categories of sufficiency ( e.g. violence or finding a spouse in adultery were enough , but words or a confession of adultery were not ) . |
| 4 | But words will never hurt me , ’ |
| 5 | But words have a highly ambiguous status : they are human artefacts but they are also very like natural species . |
| 6 | Rab said , ‘ Sticks and stones kin break yer bones but words kin never hurt ye . ’ |
| 7 | He might be drunk and bursting with frustration but words came first with him . |
| 8 | This is not an exhortation by a modern radical , but words written by E. B. Huey in 1908 ! |
| 9 | But words like jack which are names but also things are allowed . |
| 10 | Noise and vibration of any kind is a powerful distraction — but words are more distracting than music . |
| 11 | Not shells , but words . |
| 12 | translates itself , but words stumble , fall back , |
| 13 | But words , acquired slowly over a lifetime , are part of a different set of perceptions of the world , they have grown with us , they restrict what we see and how we see it . |
| 14 | Short notes here and there will indicate the path that the lecturer has taken through the study , but words will be few and blank spaces many . |
| 15 | Plain text could get us a long way , but words are an imprecise medium , and pictures and other symbolic descriptions often help ; so we shall need a few mathematical ideas and notations . |
| 16 | Figures he could handle , quarterly returns and VAT , but words danced along almost beyond his reach . |
| 17 | I can draw his face and his expressions , but words are all so used , they 've been used about so many other things and people . |
| 18 | Sounds are all right but words , particularly logical words , tend to activate those parts of the brain that include judgemental and evaluative awareness of the self . |
| 19 | But words ca n't do justice to Jan Ormerod 's wonderful animal pictures , which make each spread in this large-format picture a joy to look at . |
| 20 | The language of science overlaps with that of ordinary life , but words like ‘ field ’ , ‘ elementary ’ and ‘ family ’ came to be used in the later nineteenth century in rather different senses in physics , chemistry and biology . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's not true , ’ Davide began , but words would not come to his help . |
| 22 | In the converse disorder , which unfortunately has been given several different names ( surface dysgraphia , phonological spelling , and lexical agraphia ) , the spelling to dictation of non-words is good , but words are commonly misspelled , and the misspellings are usually phonologically correct — e.g. ‘ search ’ — surch , ‘ spade ’ — spaid and ‘ come ’ — cumme . |
| 23 | All this may seem mere words , but words and their meaning are at the heart of the planning process . |
| 24 | But words which serve such comprehensive purposes are clearly very different kinds of words from the ordinary English terms " father " , " mother " etc. , which have a much more restricted scope . |
| 25 | But words came halting forth , wanting inventions 's stay ; Invention , nature 's child , fled step-dame study 's blows ; And others ' feet still seemed but strangers in my way . |
| 26 | Words are essential tools for formulating and communicating thoughts , and also for putting them into the storage of memory , but words can also become snares , decoys or straight jackets . |
| 27 | In the present study , the terminology used in indexes has remained very constant over the whole period , but words used in thesis titles have reflected paradigm shifts , both within sub-disciplines and in the larger subject area . |
| 28 | But ( as Hobbes observed ) , " promises without the sword are but words " . |
| 29 | The same procedure was adopted as for the immediate recall part of the experiment but words were used from set B. However , before the subject was allowed to recall the words an arbitrary three digit number , provided below the word list for each trial , was given to the subject and the subject asked to repeat the number and count backwards by threes as fast as they could for thirty seconds . |
| 30 | He smiled at her and because they were n't alone they did n't speak but words were n't needed to exchange emotions shared . |