Example sentences of "[noun sg] but [pron] [vb -s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could do good but it does more bad |
| 2 | Suppose a particular nationalized firm wants to institute a project that has a very favourable rate of return but which involves heavy capital outlays prior to any revenues being generated . |
| 3 | This is essentially a digging tool but it has another function I have always found particularly useful . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Anders is not in that category but he has other things to offer . |
| 6 | angina but she takes this spray |
| 7 | I 'd have hoped the England team would have been selected on quality and experience but it seems those qualities are not important any more |
| 8 | ‘ I would have hoped teams were selected on quality and experience but it seems those qualities are not important any more . |
| 9 | China is already a big exporter of tungsten but it has major reserves of titanium , tin , copper . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | This is a device similar to a normal cassette recorder but which takes bigger tape cassettes , each of which can hold all the data and programs on your computer . |
| 12 | Rather this is a feature which is unique to that particular generation or cohort but which has profound implications for the provision of family care to older people in the community . |
| 13 | John Smith may of necessity have toured the prawn cocktail circuit of the City but he represents those parts of the UK deeply suspicious of its working . |
| 14 | Not because of anything to do with the school but he needs special help — I think we should think about your feelings . |
| 15 | The element of performance referred to under Dramatic playing occurs as part of a participant 's expression but it has such clarity and selectivity of communication to other participants that it acquires the ‘ adjectival ’ , descriptive characteristic of performing . |
| 16 | well ha you , what you have is you have erm the ship , first of all you have the ship , it 's a plain ship on a white background , then you have the lights on a black background and then you have that blue bit in the middle but it takes three shots |
| 17 | Vertical integration which does not come about through merger but which has anticompetitive consequences is a potential concern of the FTA if it involves a monopoly situation . |
| 18 | Not merely does one criticise the forms of science and technology but one proposes positive human enhancing alternatives . |