Example sentences of "but it [verb] [adv] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | But it went on to slam British Rail for using ancient commuter trains with parts dating back to the steam age . |
2 | She had had real coffee once or twice on the ‘ pomps ’ raids down into Mexico , but it had n't seemed special . |
3 | The war had , of course , done considerable damage to Spain 's productive capacity , but it had not occasioned total collapse . |
4 | Apparently my mother had worked at a big house somewhere and fallen in love , but it had all gone wrong . |
5 | A few weeks ago she would have been looking forward to the show , but it had all fallen flat and she had to scold herself severely before she could whip up any enthusiasm at all . |
6 | I think we must make it a positive step forward that this council not only goes forwards to build but it goes forward to use that building and give the firemen of this county the right tools , or firewoman , the firemen and the firewoman of this county the right tools to work with . |
7 | Now whenever I speak , this provides grounds for believing that I have vocal chords ; but it does not express that fact . |
8 | This stage produces a family of subsets of the training set , the clusters , but it does not identify each cluster except by stating which example is in which cluster . |
9 | Of course , they may not accept the beliefs , attitudes , or intentions that are expressed ; one can always object to what somebody else says , but it does not make much sense to do this unless one understands its meaning . |
10 | Hence the demand of workers for jobs with reasonable pay and security may command public sympathy , but it does not find widespread legitimacy , and those on strike may simply appear as troublemakers causing dissent unnecessarily . |
11 | But it does not follow that finite forms are superfluous because religion has to find expression in concrete forms , and the plurality of particular religions is necessary for the complete manifestation of religion . |
12 | Now clearly a teaching approach which goes against the grain of natural disposition will create needless difficulties for the learner , as I pointed out earlier in reference to translation and the focusing on form , but it does not follow that pedagogy must therefore simply accommodate that disposition . |
13 | Advanced Micro Devices Inc says it expects to announce an agreement on a foundry for production of Am486s by the end of next month , but it does not see any revenues from the agreement before January next year : it expects to produce about 600,000 to 700,000 Am486 chips this year , and to increase that production to about 1m per quarter by the second quarter of next year ; it is still ‘ negotiating in earnest ’ with several possible foundry candidates . |
14 | This has the advantage of being expressed as a number and is thus amenable to statistical analysis , but it does not recognise different types of colonic pressure waves . |
15 | But it does not take legal rights seriously . |
16 | But it does not seem sensible to accept them unless they can be given rational sanction . |
17 | As the Squig escapes from the control of its Night Goblin herders it may burst through its own unit , but it does not cause any damage as it does so . |
18 | But it does not work that way . |
19 | The net result may be neutral as Mr Lamont claims , but it does not look that way to the casual viewer who may as a result end the day in a gloomier mood than he began . |
20 | But it does not say this . |
21 | Symbolically , it was a significant moment , but it does n't go much beyond symbolism . |
22 | It is actually distilled from oil , and it 's a fairly heavy liquid , and it 's , to be honest not inert , but it does n't do much . |
23 | ‘ But it does n't make any sense , ’ he complained , in deadly earnest . |
24 | There may be nothing behind it , but it does n't make any difference so long as it is honoured . |
25 | ‘ But it does n't make any difference to Tom and me . |
26 | ‘ But it does n't make any difference , does it ? |
27 | I do n't really understand why so many galleries seem to be closed to women , but it does n't make any difference to me whether an artist is male or female . |
28 | he used an illustration of the pig , you know you can polish the pig up , you can clean it , you can scrub it , you can oh de cologne it , you can do all sorts of things with it , you can tie a nice pink ribbon around it and you can put it in a palace , but it 's still a pig and it lives like a pig and you can cl and no matter how clean you 've made it , it 'll soon find some dirt to wallow in and the ribbon might make it look nice in the show ground but it does n't make any difference to its nature and so it is with us and so Jesus did n't start on the outside , but he starts at the inside he deals with the route of the problem , in One Corinthians chapter fifteen and in verse three it says for I deliver to you as a first importance , this is the basic thing , he says to them this was the first thing that I said to you because it was the most important that Christ died for our sins , according to the scripture , what ever else Christ gives to us , what ever else he does for us , what ever else the gospel produces , the basic , the most important , the fundamental thing is that Christ died for our sins . |
29 | But it does n't think this is a war between independent powers . |
30 | Uplands kept its wholesaling operation going for a few years after I left , but it does n't exist any more ; I think the day of the really small wholesaler is gone . ’ |