Example sentences of "[noun] but it [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Community is part of the job but it needs good management ( paying teachers , costing the use of premises , the division of time other than that which is needed to provide the national curriculum ) as well as a personally felt sense of value .
2 The church was not in permanent use and had no resident vicar but it held occasional services and now at Christmas an elderly cleric in retirement had volunteered to conduct a sung Eucharist at nine-thirty with the help of a volunteer choir assembled from the Women 's Institute .
3 China is already a big exporter of tungsten but it has major reserves of titanium , tin , copper .
4 This approach to viscoelastic theory is reasonably successful in the low modulus regions but it requires considerable modification if the high modulus and rubbery plateau regions are to be described .
5 This kind of access to recording facilities is not of course practicable in many language teaching situations but it has considerable potential on intensive courses where students have many contact hours .
6 It enrolled less than 50 members but it attracted active support from up to 2,000 sympathizers .
7 There are final decisions still to be taken over the introduction of the speed controls but it seems likely humps would be in place by September this year .
8 Size provides a cushion to the vicissitudes of markets but it creates other problems .
9 ALAN Kernaghan is ready to book a World Cup passage to America but it means waving goodbye to Middlesbrough .
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