Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] but we " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The executive directors at NatWest were tremendously supportive but we did n't necessarily need support , we needed experienced guidance . |
| 2 | He had a tremendous gift , some of it a little theatrical but we all loved him very much and he was a great popular success . ’ |
| 3 | But the point is that if , if musicians go to service , they know there 's enough readers and if the musicians decide to take on part of that reading one service , surely it 's only courtesy for the musicians to say to the readers , whose lists are published months in advance , terribly sorry but we 're gon na do this this time , and do you mind stepping down ? |
| 4 | Team spokeswoman Sarah Coulthard , said : ‘ The Mayor has been exceedingly generous but we also need the support of local firms . |
| 5 | We 've been criticised for bringing him in so late but we tried to bring him in earlier . |
| 6 | ‘ I did n't think we 'd be together for so long but we 've grown up together and been through some brutal things . ’ |
| 7 | Like so much else in Lebanon , it was physically possible but we never met anyone who had actually achieved this . |
| 8 | If you 've got the Anaglypta , it looked nice just white but we thought , no ! |
| 9 | We know we should find porn utterly repellent but we can not help finding it endlessly fascinating . |
| 10 | Now , the reason why we 're getting a fairly high test statistic is that er , that distribution , although it looks normal on the left hand side , it does n't look particularly normal erm on the right and that we are missing some observations , we are missing some values of the residuals er in one area of the graph , nevertheless if we had a larger sample , right we probably erm , right it does n't look , that looks quite encouraging in actual fact , those residuals do seem to be er normally distributed er what the test statistic is doing er it 's saying it 's performing a , it 's a kiescraper two test , it 's making two restrictions , one of which is saying , is the distribution of these residuals symmetric er and also it 's testing whether there 's one of the tails is a lot larger or a lot longer than the other tail of the distribution and er test statistics fairly high but we would n't reject the null of normality at the five percent level so our test statistic is four point zero eight and the critical value is five point nine nine and that the five percent significance level , so we 've got reasonably er robust residuals . |
| 11 | I think it 's quite remarkable er that Councillor can come along and blindly say , well we 've had a report back to housing committee , housing committee 's considered this matter and the vast majority of people found it fairly unacceptable but we 'll ignore that , we 'll ignore that , fine , well I s'pose if you want to ignore it that 's fine but I think w we do face here a a key issue and the issue of capital receipts , as you rightly say , is an important one . |
| 12 | On the second day the weather was as bad but we did n't get the very worst of it . |
| 13 | NEWSPAPER ARTICLES about the consequences of a shortage of oil ( or , as now , what happens when there is too much of the stuff ) appear almost daily but we hear too little about another vital industrial resource . |
| 14 | In fact two thousand leaflets were sent out so we actually tried quite hard but we , we did exclude some of the people who should have been leafleted . |
| 15 | ‘ She is a bit shaken and quite cold but we do n't believe she is too serious , ’ added the spokesman . |
| 16 | The house seemed quite grand but we only stayed one night as the following afternoon we entrained for Preston , a journey that took so long , I wondered if we would ever arrive . |
| 17 | it 's been quite busy but we 've managed |
| 18 | The market is quite slow but we are selling . ’ |
| 19 | Erm we also know that base five formwork is up so we started on base five as soon as we can , put as many resources into it as we can we mentioned earlier that er having five hundred people in there made life quite congested but we decided the more people that helped in there the better and er our objective was to get the er wall steelwork up . |
| 20 | All in all , the task looked pretty impossible but we were determined to have a go . |
| 21 | The tabloids would never describe themselves as completely serious but we are serious about serious news . |
| 22 | We 're not financially responsible but we were |
| 23 | The brood sizes have been steadily increasing but we are still waiting for out oldest fry to start reproducing . |
| 24 | ‘ They were pretty threatening but we tried to reason with them by offering free meals to children . |
| 25 | Accidental fires do happen when the Peak is very dry but we have n't been in that situation yet . |
| 26 | ‘ It is certainly very strange but we will have to wait for the outcome of an investigation . ’ |
| 27 | You know I sa , told Margaret , I said look do n't er I 'm very sorry but we ca n't do it ! |
| 28 | Our image is now very strong but we 've also got the music to carry us through . ’ |
| 29 | I know that the spiritual warfare will be very real but we 're on the winning side , HALLEUJAH . |
| 30 | She was very patient but we 'd lost time . |