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 .
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