Example sentences of "but it [verb] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This ‘ technology transfer ’ is a process of innovation , but it involves spreading existing technology from sectors where it is conventionally used throughout industry so as to provide added value and competitive advantage . |
| 2 | The result edged Liverpool into ninth place , 11 points behind leaders Norwich , but it had great personal significance for Souness . |
| 3 | By 1880 this was more and more a matter of Great Russian chauvinism within the boundaries of the Russian Empire , and tsarist imperialism abroad , but it had great sentimental appeal among Slavs living under non-Slav rulers who were encouraged by it to look to this ‘ big brother ’ . |
| 4 | But it had great sentimental value . ’ |
| 5 | It was never greatly used in food , even in mediaeval times , but it had considerable medicinal application , and still has , for certain ailments . |
| 6 | But it replicates egalitarian feminist psychology 's over-attachment to certainty , and to closed , self-sufficient explanatory systems . |
| 7 | But it created a new kind of assignment , which was a legal assignment in the sense that the assignee might sue directly in his own name without making the assignor a party ; but it made certain special requirements : |
| 8 | This final scene of the novel leaves the reader free to believe , if he so wishes , that Pip and Estella will eventually marry , but it seems clear that CD 's intention was that we should understand that Pip 's renewed hopes were not to be fulfilled . |
| 9 | This is much smaller and less pretentious , but it has good geometrical window tracery above a ground floor arcade . |
| 10 | This might be slightly bending the letter of the law in that the prospectus should be a single document but it makes good economic sense . |
| 11 | The editor 's role is one that is very time-consuming and tedious but it demands good critical evaluation as well as sharp observation of consistency of presentation . |
| 12 | But it means Irish international Roy Keane moves from his favoured central midfield role to the right wing in place of Kingsley Black . |