Example sentences of "[noun] but it [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We started calling them Ronnie but it got a bit confusing . |
| 2 | It 's an uninspiring village but it has a railway station , so it 's a convenient place to begin . |
| 3 | It was sold as the fulfilment of a dream but it became a nightmare for many . |
| 4 | Speculating like this was always a pointless exercise but it occupied a portion of any day . |
| 5 | Brian 's got the prototype but it needs a lot of testing still . ’ |
| 6 | Barrie Lamb , chairman of the Darlington Railway Preservation Society , explained : ‘ Quite a few historians have written about this building but it seems a bit odd that none of them knew the exact date it opened . |
| 7 | No. 17 is a somewhat similar division but it contains a Tweddle press for shaping steel panel plates , and also deals with steel flooring , vestibule steel-work , and other miscellaneous work , while repairs are also undertaken here . |
| 8 | The bottom line with the café owner has always been about payments for car parking but it becomes a problem if the establishment is closed more than it is open . |
| 9 | I 'm not saying it had such a positive effect on his career but it caused a lot of attention which he did n't buckle under , and I do feel a lot of people could n't have lived through that experience , but he did . |
| 10 | When this matter was discussed at housing committee , I believe it 's only last week but it seems a lot longer ago , I spoke at some length about the errors and fallacies in the report arguing against a case that officers have put forward , pointing out mistakes and erroneous conclusions that seem to have been drawn from some very flimsy evidence . |
| 11 | Count 2 was in identical terms in that it alleged the same offence but it involved a cheque for £116,250 obtained on or about 23 March 1988 . |
| 12 | It was some such very similar situation but it involved a lot more money than you 've lost . |
| 13 | The section exists elsewhere in separate form but it has a propriety at this point , stressing that the dynamic shaping inherent in the process Rolle describes is a property of God and a divine gift ; and it leads into the final summarising chapter focused on active and contemplative life . |
| 14 | We 've got one of those at school but it had a bus on it . |
| 15 | He smacked the ball and it was heading for the roof of the net but it hit a west ham player on the head and almost knocked his head off ! |
| 16 | The defendant in the Protector Alarms case was a Scottish company but it had a place of business in England at which service could be effected . |