Example sentences of "but it [verb] [adj] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is spoken in the north and also understood in the eastern and western states ; but it receives short shrift once it ventures to enter the south . |
| 2 | There were 2 attacks early on , but it takes stronger stuff than this to beat Grimsby . |
| 3 | The first meeting of the Institution of Civil Engineers was held on 2 January 1818 with eight founder members present , but it made slow progress until in 1820 Telford , who never joined the Smeatonians , agreed to become the first president . |
| 4 | But it took some time before any clear view emerged as to what these new arrangements should be . |
| 5 | This approach to viscoelastic theory is reasonably successful in the low modulus regions but it requires considerable modification if the high modulus and rubbery plateau regions are to be described . |
| 6 | But it has particular force when attempting to understand design-and-society relations . |
| 7 | But it has few powers if they refuse . |
| 8 | Clearly there may well be more than an element of exaggeration in this insistence , but it makes more sense if we accept their view that a great many features of literature that might not normally be recognized , at least at first sight , as terms of a comparison , nonetheless have a metaphorical or analogical function . |
| 9 | ‘ But it raises fewer objections than the first theory , that he came in half-naked and armed with a razor and yet there are no obvious signs that Berowne put up any resistance . ’ |
| 10 | But it causes rural unemployment unless some considerable thought is put into the change . |
| 11 | On the surface it has no problem with it — the technologies at issue NCR either has or is moving towards — but it wants more information before it lends any support . |
| 12 | On the surface it has no problem with it — it either has or is moving towards the technologies at issue , but it wants more information before it lends any support . |