Example sentences of "but it [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 This species grows quite large in the wild at up to 20cm , but it rarely achieves such proportions in the aquarium .
2 ‘ War put child guidance on the map ’ , wrote Doris Wills — but it also put educational psychologists on the map , accentuated their claim to a permanent place in the education system as mediators between society and the educators .
3 Michael Feist Countryside special sites could be in open countryside away from Government policies concerning sustainability , I wonder how Professor Lock would see the situation emerging whereby a local authority has allocated a certain amount of land in its local plan for development for industrial or commercial purposes , it 's tried to erm identify a broad range of criteria but it also identified special sites erm which will only be released in exceptional circumstances , that happened to be an open countryside and had the advantages that it may be a little close to the A one or somewhere similar .
4 We hear thunder when it is close enough for its highest frequencies to reach us , but it also generates infrasonic sounds which travel much further .
5 But it also had implicit ones .
6 The implications of this were discussed almost entirely in relation to the release of land for housing , but it also had considerable implications for the tenure pattern of new housing .
7 But it also had potential drawbacks , because the use of a church 's income , or part of it , to provide for members of a family could assume a disproportionate weight compared with religious observance .
8 Theory does point to a clear suspicion that a lack of competition can , most certainly , lead to inefficiencies , but it also identifies possible benefits from the attainment of lower-cost production .
9 Not only does this ignore a whole aspect of local state activity — that which opposes the centre — but it also reduces social relations between active human agents to purely functional operations .
10 For Sumner , law embodies the appearance of reality produced by social relations , so that , for example , an employment contract appears as a consensual contract between equals ( a point also made by Hunt ) , but it also embodies those appearances as they have been seen and interpreted by classes and groups who make laws .
11 But it also offered other advantages — protection of British jobs against cheap foreign imports , and an inflow of customs duties to the Treasury which could be used to pay for the escalating costs of both armaments and social reforms .
12 This is an important aspect of the process of developing a school 's strategy of in-service education but it also enables other parties to share in the awareness of what has been achieved and what needs improvement .
13 It was not only intensely irritating , but it also frightened many women off , and made the normal process of two people getting to know one another quite impossible .
14 Such mastery of basic drives may cost the ego something , but it also brings rich rewards .
15 The Lexis search may refer you to source material that you have in your library but it also contains unreported cases .
16 Not only is this episode interesting in itself , but it also contains important lessons which can be applied to similar attempts at implementing Marxism within a democratic framework .
17 Home Emergency Service is designed to provide essential help rather than regular household maintenance , but it also covers many emergencies arising from normal wear and tear unlike some household insurance policies .
18 It was essentially an extension of the friendly society schemes — the societies helped administer it — but it also covered occupational groups that had never been able to be members .
19 This must be a factor in the cuckoo 's ability to lay its eggs so rapidly , but it also has other advantages .
20 ‘ Participation ’ is another but it also has other sources .
21 It has also developed something of an international character ; not only does it attract a proportion of its students from overseas , but it also has strong links with overseas institutions .
22 But it also has important consequences for the epistemological status of the resulting social theory , and much of the novelty of Marxism is said to arise from its break with traditional conceptions of knowledge .
23 Writing serves cognitive functions in enabling the child to redraft and refine thoughts and ideas , but it also serves social functions in transmitting messages in the wider world .
24 The idea is to make powerful syndicate members compete as never before ; but it also restricts non-syndicate members to selling only to small investors .
25 This arrangement requires a certain amount of restraint and co-operation on the part of the dominant males , but it clearly has compensatory advantages .
26 The Cadbury Report has placed corporate governance firmly on the profession 's agenda , but it scarcely provides any answers .
27 Agfa 's Rodinal falls into this category , although at 100 years old it is positively ancient and not modern , but it nevertheless has many qualities that other modern developers have only just caught up with .
28 The ’ Harriet was hungry ’ example may be only nine words long , but it nevertheless demonstrates many aspects of knowledge that need to be made explicit to a computer before it could be said to understand .
29 Another fishing boat tried to tow the Glenmore back to port in rough seas , but it finally sank ninety miles east of Orkney .
30 But it too uses passive tests most frequently when it is studying female subjects .
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