Example sentences of "[noun sg] but it [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could do good but it does more bad |
| 2 | This is essentially a digging tool but it has another function I have always found particularly useful . |
| 3 | I mean I I had the guitar stuff done within an hour but it getting all vocals over-dubbed and doubling everything up and then , it took forever to mix it together . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | ‘ I would have hoped teams were selected on quality and experience but it seems those qualities are not important any more . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |