Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] but it [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THERE is another festival of sport this Sunday but it requires some channel switching . |
| 2 | this morning but it 's all gone except for where in in the shadow |
| 3 | It is a fast and relatively cheap working method but it turns this into a real Spaghetti Opera , where the soundtrack never quite gels with the visuals . |
| 4 | It was a short note but it took half the morning , a thousand attempts . |
| 5 | Scotland , Wales and Northern Ireland all enjoy a species of regional government but it savours more of deconcentration than of devolution . |
| 6 | In many ways the movement was a distant bogey but it worried many landowners whose rent rolls were hit by the heavy load of poor rates , now a quarterly impost almost everywhere . |
| 7 | Multimedia is one ingredient in this climate of change and potential diversification but it has some particular implications which publishers need to understand . |
| 8 | This is essentially a digging tool but it has another function I have always found particularly useful . |
| 9 | Such a word may be useful to a literary man but it throws little light on Green 's intentions except when he uses it in a negative sense ; in one chapter he states a subject was ‘ unpicturesque and consequently not worth an artists attention ’ . |