Example sentences of "[adv] but it [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christ God dealt with the problem which spoiled his image in us and he has to do it because of fundamental thing , he 's got ta do it from the centre , you know you can get an apple , an ordinary apple and you can polish it up and you can have it so that it 's bright and glistening and the red is almost you know it , it , it , it almost dazzles you the shining on it , it 's got a real good polish on the skin , but inside , there 's a grub , and all the polishing in the world does n't get rid of the grub , and you see that 's so often what we do , we polish and polish away on the outside , that 's gon na make us better but it 's only skin deep because inside the grub is having a field day , he 's having a party of all party 's , he 's got an whole apple to himself and the grub of sin in your life and in my life is having , has a field day and we polish the outside and we try and make it look good and we be we become presentable and there like the apple on the market stall it looks good , it looks tremendous until you take a bite out of it and you see in the bit that you 've bitten there 's a , there 's a hole going through and you wonder where the grub is , is it in the bit that 's left or in the bit that you 've eaten and this is just like sin you see in our lives and so God in Christ he did n't deal with the outside bit , he did n't bother trying to make our conditions better , he did n't bother trying to work on the outside , that 's the difference between the gospel and social work and there 's nothing wrong with social work , it 's just that it 's going , it 's coming from the wrong end , it starts on the outside , it will educate people if we give them better housing , if we give them better circumstances , if we give them better wages , now all these things are right and that we should have them , but that does n't make any difference , you see , the person is a sinner , all he becomes if you educate him is an educated sinner , if you give him a huge pay rise all he becomes is a rich sinner , if you put him in a palace all he becomes is er a sinner living in a palace , it does n't make any basic difference to the person . |
| 2 | The City Airport is doing better but it 's still not doing that well , there is a market for an airfield that would serve executive and freight business for North London and of course Hertfordshire , that airfield is needed . |
| 3 | Well it can be inside but it 's really outside and rotted . |
| 4 | ‘ Do n't know what it 's like inside but it 's as black as the ace of spades outside . ’ |
| 5 | I think so but it 's very out of date though . |
| 6 | I would n't get , I would n't mind if it was bloody six o'clock but it was n't it was more like half past . |
| 7 | ‘ Now , you 're not to be cross with me , my dear , because I did n't come sooner , the truth is I wanted to come straight away but it was n't possible . |
| 8 | Why not have the light within you so you do n't have to go and get it outside but it 's there dwelling within you , day by day , moment by moment ? |
| 9 | Parts of the sequence exist elsewhere but it is only in Bratislava that you find the complete set . |
| 10 | ‘ The idea may be considered pretty basic elsewhere but it was quite novel in the legal profession , ’ he said . |
| 11 | With an elephant you can kick it till the cows come home but it 's not going to worry about it . |
| 12 | home but it was only a few yards anyway from . |
| 13 | For larger boats a life jacket like this one is fine , particularly if you are going further offshore but it 's too clumsy to wear in a small sail boat like the Topper and so we prefer the buoyancy aid like this one . |
| 14 | Equaliser circuits for this purpose are available in handbooks , journals etc. but it is most unfortunate that many of the designs , even those in quite expensive equipment , are inaccurate . |
| 15 | You no doubt have picked up on the typos etc. but it is sometimes useful to have another ‘ eye ’ . |
| 16 | right but it 's like fucking hell , you know , like a seriously foul-mouthed black woman , he thought bloody hell . |
| 17 | ‘ I was stopped all right but it was n't as simple as poor McQuaid made out . |
| 18 | It 's a domestic policy , hands off right and this was one of the arguments one of those potent arguments that they 've used in the last forty years right but it 's incredibly naive because any domestic policy will have an international dimension I remember the about European Community right but it was n't for the operation of the common agricultural policy countries in the European Community would be net importers of agricultural goods as we were ten years ago bec because er of protectionism we 've now increased our self sufficiency to the point where were a net exporter of agricultural goods what implications has th does that have for international trade ? |
| 19 | Most times it 's both but it 's mainly the the left hand side with Jenny . |
| 20 | ‘ Nick ? ’ she said urgently but it was too late . |
| 21 | She grieved deeply for him but without bitterness ; at one level she is still grieving years later but it is not a destructive grieving . |
| 22 | I mean you talked about this before but it was just a joke , right . ’ |
| 23 | The person was older than me and he 's a bit higher up the rank than me and it 's all about it probably comes with experience he 's to stand for yourself really but it 's when you 're our age and a bit younger you do n't want to be seen to be rocking the boat if there 's something that 's going on that you do n't agree with but you 're asked to do something that you do n't want to do valid reasons you have n't got the time or it 's not really up to you to do it |
| 24 | And in fact it 's grown to twenty areas in the intervening thirty odd years , so that 's not bad emp empire building really is it ? thought it might have been one hundred and forty eight by now but it 's not . |
| 25 | It 's a bit too complicated to explain right now but it 's really unavoidable so I wo n't be able to ride out tomorrow . |
| 26 | I do n't know whee it is now but it was there . |
| 27 | he says he does n't go out so often but it 's more a question of qality and not quantity … its tough to stay on top but he goes out to Florida most years to train and learn the new techniques |
| 28 | Ember shoved the wheeled ramp sideways but it was all right because he 'd told her to hang on and she had . |
| 29 | cos usually you have to , it is my parents , I 've got one in my parents name as well but it 's just |
| 30 | Well but it 's very clean inside , I scrubbed it . |