Example sentences of "of [noun] but it 's " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I 've got quite a lot of hair but it 's fine so , to make it look good , I need to spend a great deal of effort on it . |
2 | There 's an element of hope but it 's hard to find . |
3 | There 's an element of hope but it 's hard to find . |
4 | I know in advance that we 're not going to have that kind of luck but it 's worth a try . |
5 | Erm there 'll be seven lectures on this subject and that 's a fair number of course but it 's not enough to cover the full range of things that I 'd want normally to talk to you about and so what I 'm going to do is to aim to introduce you to some of the central concepts of foreign policy , of ways of analysing it , of the models that are used , the ideas erm er surrounding foreign policy and also to illustrate these with examples . |
6 | It seems a lot of money but it 's not to the man who 's prepared to pay it |
7 | Plenty of people are making a lot of money but it 's not me . |
8 | Er except there 's a day of action but it 's right that 's right into November now so you can hear about that . |
9 | So every one in a thousand key , might actually fit this type of lock but it 's highly unlikely . |
10 | This will involve a lot of work but it 's something I 'm looking forward to . |
11 | ‘ I realise the club is short of cash but it 's a great chance for me to gain an insight into management , ’ said Anderson . |
12 | It is no it 's part of Group but it 's power tools down in . |
13 | Er this is alright we 've done it informally in the past , you know I 've talked to many clients some of which I handle some of which I do n't and always the question is er are we giving erm a service that we can improve on , if you look dealing with er are there any points you 'd like to raise with me , all these sort of questions but it 's all very unstructured er and sometimes it 's er er results in us having an action plan emerging , sometimes not . |
14 | You may have heard talk of retaliation but it 's too early to talk about that , ’ says a spokesman . |
15 | Well our pits there 's a lot of water but it 's , it 's mostly body sweat and s I do get some water off a , a machine that I drive . |
16 | And you know , the surface is not all i , you look out on the sea , and it looks like the proverbial mill pond , it 's calm , it 's barely a ripple of water but it 's not still . |
17 | So you know just picking up Mr 's point , I h we must n't confuse , I mean I agree that quantity is one of the measures of quality but it 's not the only one . |
18 | People make a virtue of loyalty but it 's not always a good thing . |
19 | And the communication that does exist between schools and parents , in most schools there 's , there is plenty of communication but it 's hardly ever about the curriculum . |
20 | Art is an enlargement of life but it 's not a necessity . |
21 | It can get a bit out of hand but it 's up to the officers to keep discipline |
22 | At the same time we were organising meeting 's to tell local people about it and to get there views and to make it clear again that we were , you know , we were in a position where we were being forced to do something by this legislation that we did n't want to do and we wanted just , the alternative was if we had set a rent rise , which have been dramatically higher , I mean the four pounds , twenty five rent rise that we eventually had to agree to was higher than what the Council wanted to put the rent 's up by , you would think well the Council put the rent 's up by four pounds , twenty five , erm , and you know , that , that 's why the Council does that sort of thing but it 's us that gets involved in that kind of work , producing information and developing responses and then the secon d major area is what I 've just labelled a strategic policy development , and that mainly erm put policies that are like a rise within the Council rather than things that come from outside , like for example , because were the kind of Council we , we are , there was a debate amongst officer 's and member 's to develop an anti poll strategy and two hundred and eight thousand pounds was found to be linked to that strategy and erm , as that 's enabled various initiative 's to get under , under schemes , crashes for children in the town , stuff like that , er and also , erm to provide an overall policy frame work for other Council department 's . |
23 | It 's the same type of thing but it 's |
24 | He bought the girls a bloody great not , well it 's like that sort of thing but it 's a big one . |
25 | I think the stairs were constructed of stone but it 's hard to tell because it 's been deep in rubble ever since I can recall . |
26 | This may all sound like an advanced case of paranoia but it 's actually just a simple precaution which does n't hurt anyone . |
27 | I think that it 's only a fear of women but it 's also a belief in the innate or or learn superiority of men over women |
28 | But it does concern me very much , not just the loss of jobs but it 's the loss of services in this area . |