Example sentences of "but there is [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A telephone message may have come to say that a parent has died , a letter saying that a wife is seeking a divorce , but there is nowhere to hide and be alone with sorrow . |
| 2 | The minor irritation on returning to the car is that it is directly in front of you as you descend to the north , but there is nowhere to cross the river . |
| 3 | They might have mislaid the formula for operating over five days — December 1986 is the last time England beat anyone of any consequence when asked to bat and bowl for longer than 55 overs — but there is no getting away from their ability to play the negative stuff as well as anyone else . |
| 4 | But there is no getting away from the fact that we must still use water wisely . ’ |
| 5 | But there is no getting away from the fact that he is on the left of the party . |
| 6 | But there is no getting away from the fact that Howard has got big problems . |
| 7 | The Austrian authorities in Vienna and Salzburg are at pains to contain the worst excesses , but there is no stopping the Mozart T-shirts , socks , toasters , puzzles , bottle-openers , Swatches , mayonnaise , cheese , scent , a Köchel cook book , a hamburger called Mozart and well over 100m marzipan-filled ‘ Mozartkugeln ’ . |
| 8 | But there is no concealing her . |
| 9 | There were many difficulties , but there is no doubting that Labour 's national organization began to improve . |
| 10 | But there is no doubting his overall fitness . |
| 11 | But there is no comparing the ways in which God responds . |
| 12 | In our Galaxy , only four have been seen during the last thousand years : in 1006 , 1054 , 1572 and 1604 , but there is no knowing when we will see another . |
| 13 | At its most intrusive the V8 roars valiantly under full throttle , but there is no escaping the fact that for demanding driving this engine occasionally labours under the strain . |
| 14 | Both the 1750s and the 1760s contained food-price peaks , 1756 – 7 and 1766 , but there is no escaping the conclusion that the general trend in the standard of living was inexorably downward . |
| 15 | But there is no doing so unless we accept that the literal writer has an imagination . |
| 16 | But there is no gainsaying the fact that Novell is a publicly-owned company whose primary responsibilities are to its shareholders . |
| 17 | No doubt the proposition : ‘ Had there been no Siberian sable , there would have been no Muscovite empire ’ , is somewhat fanciful , but there is no gainsaying metropolitan Russia 's early economic dependence on the resources of her Siberian possessions . |
| 18 | But there is no mistaking the fact that the First Division door has been left ajar . |
| 19 | Some of the gaps must be due to chance , but there is no mistaking the insularity of interest which these volumes display . |
| 20 | Perhaps he could do little else , but there is no mistaking the magnanimity of the spirit in which he wrote the following reply to one question which had been sent to him during his exile . |
| 21 | But there is no disputing the 29-year-old 's awesome record of 34 goals in 46 games for the Gunners . |
| 22 | It is not true I married for a red corduroy jacket belonging to my wife 's father ; but there is no denying he did pass it on to me , as a sort of dowry I believe . |
| 23 | On balance the evidence suggests that the Liberal decline began before the First World War , but there is no denying that the war speeded up this process . |
| 24 | But there is no denying its great intuitive appeal . |
| 25 | Alex Ferguson might have doubts about his ability as a team player , but there is no denying that , when the mood takes him , Hughes can be a devastating striker . |
| 26 | It can be as stuffy as many of its clients , but there is no denying its discreet splendour . |