Example sentences of "but it [verb] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has the advantage of relating expenditure to sales , but it discourages innovative approaches to advertising expenditure and does not allow for distinctions to be made between products or sales territories . |
| 2 | The house had not the vistas or the parkland of Auckland Castle , and its chapel could hardly compete with the chapel at Auckland , but it had good walks along the Ouse . |
| 3 | But it had obvious difficulties for many students who found they could not manage both love affairs and study . |
| 4 | That was all very well , but it left big questions of detail in how the mixed economy was to be run . |
| 5 | The Second World War added no territory to the Empire , but it left British troops in occupation of the Italian empire in Africa , and the Dutch and French empires in the Far East . |
| 6 | The stripes were hardly noticeable , as the cut was left longer here , but it took slight bumps in the ground in its stride , and cut well up to edges . |
| 7 | But it took many years for the ordinary people of the area to benefit from tourism in any worthwhile economic sense . |
| 8 | A wizened butler opened the door to Topaz , but it took five minutes of heated argument before she was allowed to step over the threshold of Stone Towers . |
| 9 | The incident last weekend happened just a few hundred yards from Bishop Auckland ambulance station , but it took 25 minutes for a vehicle to arrive from Durham City 12 miles away . |
| 10 | But it ignores social changes like the increase in the numbers of educated women , the decline in domestic help and the development of job and life expectations . |
| 11 | But it creates certain incongruities in his character . ’ |
| 12 | To a large degree this was centred , although not confined , to the newer , suburban churches , but it affected all aspects of Nonconformist church-life . |
| 13 | But it includes large parts of the Wear Valley district where the LibDems took spectacular local authority control from Labour in May . |
| 14 | Thus the cortex on one side contains a map of only half the visual field , but it contains two versions of that map , one from each eye , superimposed on one another . |
| 15 | In the south you will find Crux Australis , the Southern Cross , which is not genuinely X-shaped ; it is more like a kite , but it contains three stars of above the second magnitude . |
| 16 | But it has material consequences for women , does n't it ? |
| 17 | China is already a big exporter of tungsten but it has major reserves of titanium , tin , copper . |
| 18 | It may be wondered why this doctrine is retained , but it has great advantages for both the major groups involved — the ministers and the civil servants . |
| 19 | But it has many advantages over other holographic transform methods . |
| 20 | The term ‘ culture ’ could be used in this way in less complex , smaller-scale social systems , but it has other meanings in industrial society and seems inadequate for the task of relating everyday life to historical development . |
| 21 | A festoon blind , on the other hand , hangs like a curtain when it is down but it has vertical rows of rings on the back through which cord is threaded . |
| 22 | Historical biography may be hard to write , but it draws more readers to history than any other genre . |
| 23 | Scientists say they 've used a harmless form of plutonium , but it means regular checks on the volunteers . |
| 24 | Scientists say they 've used a harmless form of plutonium , but it means regular checks on the volunteers . |
| 25 | erm , but it cost seven pounds for me and mum |
| 26 | The UNESCO Report could be a first step towards this but it needs international organizations like UNESCO and IFLA to take the action they have not so far done . |
| 27 | But it needs complementary mechanisms for counselling , transmission of experience , management expertise , financial support , upskilling programmes . |