Example sentences of "good but [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Honeymoon are better but their ‘ How Much More Do You Want ’ does sound like The Wedding Present . |
| 2 | The Honeymoon are better but their ‘ How Much More Do You Want ’ does sound like The Wedding Present . |
| 3 | Aberdeen started the second half better but we finished strongly . |
| 4 | ‘ We accept that simply earning more will not make referees better but we still believe we are among the poor relations of Europe , ’ added Deakin . |
| 5 | you 've got erm three , three and a half percent say per annum , er plus erm a superbonus which is perhaps five percent of additional bonuses , so it looks better but it is n't really . |
| 6 | Well it 's better but it 's not right . |
| 7 | Getting better but it 's just this gritty thing in the back of my eye , I mean I |
| 8 | He says he 's feeling better but he has to go back to the hospice . |
| 9 | I want to make her better but you ca n't do that so you 've got to make some effort . |
| 10 | I suppose fresh meat is better but you 're only suppose to keep a certain time anyway even in the freezer . |
| 11 | you might not be better but you 're natural . |
| 12 | You often hear managers say that : ' I 've run out of ideas on how to deal with him … ’ or ‘ she could do so much better but I just ca n't seem to make any progress … ’ or ‘ he simply did n't do what I asked … ’ |
| 13 | I wanted to touch her and make her better but I realised I could n't do that . |
| 14 | I always felt I should have been able to protect my mother better but I could n't . |
| 15 | She 's gone into hospital and it might mean she 'll get better but I do n't wish her harm , Joe , even though she does n't deserve to be happy . ’ |
| 16 | I would have liked to have got to know her better but I drank too much . |
| 17 | ‘ I seem to be getting better but my balance is still poor . ’ |
| 18 | On the other hand , T. Rex might have looked really good but everything else about them was so naïve and teenybopperish that you could n't really admit to your mates that you liked them . |
| 19 | A rich invalid , I mean you would n't be good but what they forget oh ! |
| 20 | ‘ They are going to be very good but they need to learn to combine better , ’ observed Cahill . |
| 21 | ‘ They are going to be very good but they need to learn to combine better , ’ observed Cahill . |
| 22 | Brightly coloured and bottled in pretty jars , not only do they taste good but they look good too ! |
| 23 | Intelligent independent critics like Beaton and popular magazines like Photoplay knew that Vidor 's work was good but they also knew that it was not the answer to Hollywood 's problems . |
| 24 | First race there twelve fifty the going at the moment is good but they have had a quarter of an inch of rain overnight so of course I suppose there 's every chance it could go to good to soft by this afternoon . |
| 25 | Butcher-block and wood counter tops are sturdy and look good but they are not very practical near the sink surrounds or anywhere where there is water because they can warp and the grain can rise up . |
| 26 | this is where the schools I think are partly to blame , okay , yes they encourage you to do exams which is good but they do n't tell you that you 're gon na have difficulty getting a job even if you get A levels and all that , they sort of say oh yeah you , you stand a better chance of getting a job , but , its still , its still difficult . |
| 27 | Yeah no the Black are good but they do sound like the Stones . |
| 28 | It 's the star-gazing assumptions , critical risk , that 's difficult : they think it 's good but we wo n't get it . ’ |
| 29 | I THOUGHT it was terrific when David JoHansen of the New York Dolls delivered such quips a : ‘ Who cares about the music when one has such sense of drama ? ’ and , ‘ We do n't play too good but we can dance as bad as we want , ’ and ‘ We do n't hold concerts — we throw parties ! ’ , and ‘ It does n't bother us when people say that we ca n't play , when we met we actually could n't , ’ etc , etc , but all these sweeping statements were launched in 1973 , and when those same epigrams are repeated three years later by lesser mortals ( i.e. Sex Pistols , Runaways , Ramones and Kiss ) , things begin to look synthetic . |
| 30 | Guidelines are good but we 've already put a lot of safety precautions into practice . |