Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] but [pers pn] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There are many good bands in Africa ; they all want to come abroad but it is difficult to get visas and many promoters are only interested in doing just one tour . |
| 2 | We would n't want to comment on the comparative merits of your Minitex and Barbara Smith 's Erka which we show below but it is interesting that the Minitex cost £42.10s.0d in 1950 and the Erka 45 guineas in 1960 . |
| 3 | Epilepsy may be understood today but it is a long way from being accepted in the same way as diabetes , let alone short sight . |
| 4 | Yesterday a Teesside Crown Court jury was told by James Spencer QC , prosecuting : ‘ That lady survives today but she is permanently brain damaged and disabled and she is unable to say what happened to her on the morning on Wednesday , August 29 , 1990 . ’ |
| 5 | Henderson is aware that there has been talk of Lennie being lured away but he is confident that the Boro boss will stay and see the Boro into a new era of success . |
| 6 | Now you 're alright , that 's everything should happen there but it is not physically impossible but it 's gon na put staff under a lot of stress and we 're gon na have to play the game of making it workable . |
| 7 | Sometimes this person is slow in coming forward but she is often quite right , these jumpers do sell in the end . |
| 8 | The effect of the drag reduction kit modifications on the aircraft 's pre- and post-stall behaviour could not be documented precisely but it is unlikely that their effect on the stall speed and characteristics would have been significant . |
| 9 | Not only does it go faster but it is also more controllable and better-protected . |
| 10 | The candidates , all seven of them , are still canvassing hard but it is not conversions they really expect now , just promises to turn out and vote . |
| 11 | Parts of the sequence exist elsewhere but it is only in Bratislava that you find the complete set . |
| 12 | I think he 's done it , I think he 's across the river and safe and there 's a buzzy glow of vicarious accomplishment starting to well up within me , but then there 's a cracking noise and he falls ; I think he 's tripped and fallen forward but he is n't lying flat on the snow , he 's sunk up to his waist in it and there 's a pool of darkness spreading on the whiteness around him as he struggles , trying to lever himself out and I ca n't believe this is happening , ca n't believe Andy is n't going to jump free ; I 'm yelling in fear now , shouting his name , screaming out to him . |
| 13 | It may seem pretentious to say so but it is intended in Gramsci 's terms as an organic intellectual work . |
| 14 | The story of the Sunday School has been recorded elsewhere but it is interesting to note the length of time the Superintendents served . |
| 15 | The railway lines to Prome and Mandalay are working again but it is hard work with only 1/5 of the number of pre-war engines , and only 1/3 of the goods wagons and hardly any of the passenger coaches . |