Example sentences of "[adj] but it " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are happy to do this but it is a struggle to meet our debt . |
| 2 | Some hairdressers charge extra for this but it 's well worth paying a few pounds for . |
| 3 | Mr Fowler conceded that a union might not always be able to do this but it would have to show that it had used its best endeavours . |
| 4 | I am often asked for this but it is difficult to obtain . |
| 5 | It might be tempting to make a small charge for this but it may be even more advantageous to offer this as a free service with the profit being goodwill . |
| 6 | ‘ Ah , ’ was all that Maidstone said to this but it had a knowing sound to it . |
| 7 | The UNESCO Report could be a first step towards this but it needs international organizations like UNESCO and IFLA to take the action they have not so far done . |
| 8 | His sonorous voice and deliberate utterance may to a great extent account for this but it should also be remarked that as Highbury Quadrant was the first church to introduce the Electrophone , perfection has been probably acquired by long practice in the details requisite to success . ’ |
| 9 | One or two people did this but it was n't taken up generally . |
| 10 | There is truth in this but it is also likely that , in a period which Eliot considered to be one of cultural decay before the onset of " barbarism " , he was genuinely sceptical about the importance or permanence of his work . |
| 11 | but erm , er at a stage that they are in and been for a long time in the States as we will have to er get armed , well I 'm sorry to say this but it seems like it |
| 12 | Erm there are various calculations for this but it 's it 's going to actually be at least one year 's average salary . |
| 13 | I 'm rather surprised that but there you are this this er this stuff this is coming they were both being one and another er put here and er um um I suppose the idea is that the er two people should be fairly good but I think it 's going somewhere and as I say it 's down again … let's see what else has gone er the the this is just I do n't know how she di ’ how they did this but it must have been fairly hard when they did it and er I think there is n't v-very much there I think . ’ |
| 14 | Collingwood was unable to locate this but it might , perhaps , have been a working on the Kernal Vein , at a point just above the Levers Water Waterfall/Red Dell " water-race , at N.G.R. SD 29 NE 2843.9900 . |
| 15 | Perhaps children will enjoy this but it 's not too appealing for the slightly mature PC audience . |
| 16 | I did this but it 's not for a few weeks time for my presentation on Freud , or |
| 17 | You guys are gon na sponsor this but it will bring the the trade buying price , not the retail because that 's there is n't there 's no such thing in in as a retail price for that sort of industry . |
| 18 | I 'll admit I 'd like to have your confidence in this but it is n't an obstacle to our friendship . |
| 19 | We are not told this but it is easy to say that the plot opens up in the Deep American South between the two world wars , from the way the coloured people are treated , the fashions , and the descriptive backgrounds . |
| 20 | I do n't think we should be talking like this but it 's quite natural is n't it ? |
| 21 | and it looks like this but it 's a similar texture , but it 's a different taste , it 's got walnuts on the , bit on the top |
| 22 | ( The places we saw & visited were mind-boggling but it was really a family visit to see & , their daughters , sons-in-law & grand-children … all boys ) . |
| 23 | All that is rather peculiar but it can be digested and lived with . |
| 24 | For those who have read the book the game will be easier but it is not a necessity . |
| 25 | The thought of risk and high danger was exciting but it must also have been distorting . |
| 26 | The most recent , and it 's quite exciting , is to use magnetic resonance imaging to look at erm nuclei in the body and to see what they 're doing and where they are , and that 's going to be very exciting but it involves having a very very large magnet in which one puts a whole patient all at once . |
| 27 | But I mean it sounds really crap but it 's just I swear if he chooses me I 'm gon na fucking slap him . |
| 28 | Hardy abandoned his architectural career in 1872 but it was by no means the end of his interest in the subject . |
| 29 | Rhaw 's collection of Newe deudsche geistliche Gesenge ( 1544 ) was not the earliest collection of polyphonic Lutheran hymn-compositions — Walter 's Gesangbüchlein ( see p. 220 ) reached its fifth edition in the same year and the Concentus novi trium vocum of Hans Kugelmann ( d. 1542 ) had appeared at Augsburg in 1540 but it was by far the most important . |
| 30 | Evaluation is still rudimentary but it is increasingly accepted that with services as massive and costly as those described we must develop techniques for measuring their impact and comparing the success and failure of different approaches . |