Example sentences of "but it [verb] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , I would argue , though not all would agree , may tell us something interesting about the way the brain compartmentalizes different aspects of visual processing and it may tell us that subjects are more conservative about admitting to seeing a very degraded image than about trying to move their eyes to it , but it sheds little light on the actual experiences the patients are having when we show them a light . |
| 2 | Granted , Vitor continued to blame her , but it represented some kind of progress . |
| 3 | But it takes great courage for a politician to try and persuade voters of that fact . |
| 4 | But it produced critical evidence about how different designs of tax would hit marginal seats and heartland Tory ones . |
| 5 | The bus held about twenty people , but it carried all manner of other things . |
| 6 | This was a return to the test of outrage , with all its faults , but it met little outrage in Standing Committee and fell only because of the dissolution of Parliament for the 1987 General Election . |
| 7 | But it had great difficulty in finding the necessary funds for this purpose , and , partly for this reason and partly because of sheer bureaucratic inefficiency , the payment of the subsidies was always much delayed . |
| 8 | The view that the East Ropery Banks site might be considered for ‘ high value ’ housing in order to provide potential consumers for the shopping centre had first been expressed in the Poulson Report of 1965 , but it had greater saliency by 1971 because the authority was already dealing with its second property company ( Town and City ) and it was clear that market conditions made the redevelopment of North Shields centre a highly marginal project . |
| 9 | All the leading cars traded places briefly during a flurry of pit-stops but it had little effect on Prost who was able to pull clear and win comfortably . |
| 10 | All the leading cars traded places briefly during a flurry of pit-stops but it had little effect on Prost who was able to pull clear and win comfortably . |
| 11 | The famous Marx Brothers ' contract scene in A Night at the Opera ( " The party of the first part shall be known in this contract as the party of the first part " ) exaggerated the worst excesses of legal drafting , but it had some basis in fact . |
| 12 | It probably means that the average family is a much more relaxed affair than the traditional Scottish household used to be , but it goes some way towards explaining the numbers of children at risk in our society from adults outside the home , as well as from their own undisciplined emotions . |
| 13 | This was not a new idea , but it attracted increasing support from the 1880s , due partly to the failure of alternative solutions to unemployment and to the apparent unlikelihood of more work being generated in the towns . |
| 14 | It enrolled less than 50 members but it attracted active support from up to 2,000 sympathizers . |
| 15 | Throughout the first two weeks of the campaign almost twothirds of our panel cited unemployment as the ‘ main issue ’ that should be discussed but it got little coverage on television news . |
| 16 | But it omitted any reference to the dangers of ‘ Leftism ’ , despite the fact that Deng had stressed this , and that it was at the heart of a party politburo statement . |
| 17 | The articles of agreement stipulated that gold was the official numeraire in terms of which each currency 's exchange value was to be pegged , but it became common practice for countries to adopt a par value for their currencies expressed in terms of the dollar . |
| 18 | Political anti-semitism attracted mass support for the BUF in a limited geographical area , but it engendered greater hostility within those same localities and had appalling consequences elsewhere . |
| 19 | Their evidence was a bit messy , but it breathed new life into the debate . |
| 20 | Camberwell did not have a major industry that distinguished it from other London districts , but it offered sufficient variety of employment to engage a majority of the workforce ; other breadwinners did not have to go far to reach central London . |
| 21 | It may have rained for hours , but it made little difference to the River Lambourn . |
| 22 | But it took some while for the tractors to become available in other markets . |
| 23 | But it took some time for our achievement to sink in . |
| 24 | But it took some time for our achievement to sink in . |
| 25 | The hill fort at Dun Bhorairaig at Dunlossit would seem to have been a broch from the description of it by Thomas Pennant in 1772 , but it suffered some reconstruction in Medieval times , it has been suggested to turn it into a lookout. which the magnificent view of the whole of the Sound of Islay would support . |
| 26 | The hill fort at Dun Bhorairaig at Dunlossit would seem to have been a broch from the description of it by Thomas Pennant in 1772 , but it suffered some reconstruction in Medieval times , it has been suggested to turn it into a lookout. which the magnificent view of the whole of the Sound of Islay would support . |
| 27 | The book is an imaginative outgrowth of practical criticism , but it breaks new ground in its choice of late Augustan poets — Charles Wesley and Samuel Johnson — and ( by a bold leap of association ) Wordsworth , Coleridge and the later Romantics : its chapter on ‘ Shelley 's urbanity ’ , paradoxical in its very title , showing the entry of a commanding new critical voice . |
| 28 | It was Lennon 's first straight acting role and was coolly received , but it provided another vehicle for promoting his vision of a world free of war and nuclear weapons . |
| 29 | The competition was fished on the River Glem which looked uninviting , running gin clear and low , but it provided excellent match for the hard working delegates . |
| 30 | That prospect may be less depressing than a future dominated by the BJP , but it leaves little room for optimism . |