Example sentences of "but it [verb] [adj] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It gained terrific publicity , but it takes more than column inches to sell records , and I am sure that Elvis 's continuing success has more to do with talent . |
| 2 | ‘ Coppers , aye , but it takes more than coppers to cart them there ; they wo n't come and pick 'em up . ’ |
| 3 | They say that ‘ nothing happens to the bad ‘ uns ’ , but it seemed unbelievable that misfortune should strike Arthur yet again directly after his triumphs at the Horse of The Year Show . |
| 4 | It meant however that we had little time to relate our studies at any deep level to Buddhism , but it seemed unanswerable that people must have a deep understanding of their own faith before they can go on to study that of other people . |
| 5 | Furthermore , it has long been suggested that there is an inhibitory effect on hepatitis B virus replication by hepatitis delta virus in chronic hepatitis B virus infection , but it remains unclear whether hepatitis delta virus might interfere with the expression of hepatitis B virus envelope antigens in the liver or not . |
| 6 | Lloyd 's has had a difficult time recently but it remains vital if London is to retain its pre-eminent position in the world insurance market . ’ |
| 7 | But it becomes clear that Krashen is not thinking of theory in general , that is to say of a theoretical perspective on pedagogy , but of a theory in particular which can be applied directly ; not , therefore , of the process of referring actual problems to abstract ideas but the process of making practice conform to a preconceived conceptual pattern . |
| 8 | Charlemagne was lucky in that his only brother , four years younger than himself , died in 771 after a short period of increasingly fraught joint-rule ; but it took more than luck to remove that brother 's sons — they , and their mother , disappeared when their uncle defeated and imprisoned their protector , the Lombard king . |
| 9 | One can only guess at the reasons for such underreporting ; but it seems possible that exporters understate values in the hope of retaining part of the foreign exchange that they would otherwise be obliged to surrender to the authorities , while importers may wish to minimize their import duties ( and also avoid enquiries into the source of the foreign exchange used for imports ) . |
| 10 | Pearson & Bell ( 1919 ) undertook a far more extensive analysis , but it seems probable that Parsons ' original measurements are still the most reliable known , especially those of the femoral head diameter ( Thieme , 1957 ) . |
| 11 | At the time of writing , its report is still awaited , but it seems certain that legislation will shortly be introduced to end or sharply to modify the present law . |
| 12 | It will be argued that every event of the war can not be covered in one volume , but it seems strange that Brown saw fit to include a chapter on the making of the film of the Somme . |
| 13 | Perhaps , as with the Abyssinian episode , public opinion might have been sufficient to temporarily deflect the leaders of the National government from their chosen course , but it seems unlikely that Chamberlain 's government would have been so easily , or temporarily , blown off the course of appeasement . |
| 14 | But it seems unlikely that decline will be halted without change . |
| 15 | Epithelial cells and fibroblasts differ in their pattern of cytokine gene expression , but it seems likely that fibroblasts may also influence T-cell maturation by contact mediated mechanisms . |
| 16 | But it seems likely that influences other than faster scrapping also contributed to the decline in the measured ratio of output to capital . |
| 17 | There was no need in O'Reilly v. Mackman to choose between these approaches , but it seems clear that Lord Diplock considered himself to be stating a general rule with exceptions . |