Example sentences of "[noun sg] but it [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has the same written compass as the standard instrument but it sounds a minor third higher . |
| 2 | The bulk of coil production is for the building industry but it has a wide range of other applications , from washing machines to venetian blinds . |
| 3 | Like most such documents it was probably an exaggeration but it marked the approaching end of a peculiarly rich period of vitality in the county . |
| 4 | ‘ That is a slight exaggeration but it makes a serious point . ’ |
| 5 | Not only does detailed disclosure impose a heavy burden on the seller but it means a major effort for the acquirer to understand and evaluate it . |
| 6 | This eventually fostered the birth of Sussex gun-making but it meant an inevitable increase in local tension and a continued vulnerability to French attacks . |
| 7 | THE Scottish premiere of a new work is no unusual event but it adds an extra air of intrigue when the piece is less than freshly minted . |
| 8 | You wo n't sink into this sort of flooring but it has a neat appearance and will pull together a disparate collection of furniture and styles and make a roomful of old things look firmly set in the twentieth century . |
| 9 | Another advantage was being near enough to the basecamp to go back for lunch ; not only did it mean we could have a hot drink but it avoided the clammy sensation , which Carole graphically described , of sitting down for lunch when you 're soaked on the outside and soaked on the inside . |
| 10 | In fact , mahogany had been known in England since Sir Walter Raleigh 's day but it took the French ban for it to become popular . |
| 11 | The old lady was quite sprightly for her age but it took a long time for them both to reach the top floor . |
| 12 | The fragmentation and inequities of prewar arrangements were highlighted in 1937 by an influential report from the Department of Political and Economic Planning but it took the Second World War and the Beveridge Report of 1942 to change perceptions sufficiently to legitimise a greatly enhanced role for the state in the provision of health care . |
| 13 | The liquid is now officially called beer but it needs a few days further conditioning in the brewery , to purge some of the rough alcohols , before it is ready to leave for the pub . |
| 14 | ‘ More than one person at the event was surprised at the comment but it provides a neat balance to the government 's best wishes for my retirement ’ , he says . |
| 15 | Video re-runs hinted that Dowie had impeded a defender thus giving Quinn the necessary space but it seemed a harsh decision . |
| 16 | erm At the beginning of the social services committee meeting Mr moved a resolution which he previously moved at the social services planning sub-committee which listed most of the things which are presently in the the resolution but it started the social services accept the implication of the director of social services report on the future of the department 's elderly person 's homes erm , after some minutes of debate the er Democrats asked if the Tories would remove that phrase from the resolution and then tha the Democrats , the Liberal Democrats would vote for it the Tories of course er looking gift horses in the mouth as usual , said no and the the that resolution was lost . |
| 17 | It might have been a tail light going the other way but it stayed the same size . |
| 18 | Not only was this group on the increase but it embraced a complete cross section of society . |
| 19 | It was nothing like the transformation she would undergo in a few years time but it signalled the slow resurrection of her inner spirit . |
| 20 | That is a complicated formula but it contains the central issue that keeps on cropping up in " the debates between the socio-cultural anthropologists and the sociobiologists . |
| 21 | to the front but it stays the same . |
| 22 | Resolution 242 may get them around the same table but it leaves the real bones of contention untouched . |
| 23 | Case-detection through antenatal screening may have logistic , financial , and manpower impediments to implementation but it remains the favoured strategy . |