Example sentences of "but it [verb] [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not one drop of paint hit the wall he was supposed to be painting , but it had done a marvellous job of covering the path and half a garage door . |
| 2 | Labour may not have been able to maintain control of the municipal sphere for a prolonged period , but it had built a strong tradition of formal political activity which was to form the basis of hegemonic power in the interwar years . |
| 3 | When they 'd moved in he 'd made a point of telling just about everybody where it was and how much it was costing — wincing a little at the same time , as if he were telling the story against himself and his own folly — but it had become a sterile kind of heaven , and he sat around in it like some forgotten angel . |
| 4 | Athens had been hot and noisy , but it had had a human heart . |
| 5 | Having said that he was very immature the report added that there had been considerable improvement , but it had taken a long time ( he had only been at school for four terms and had had a change of teacher ) . |
| 6 | Lord Hulton had only about thirty suckling cows but it had taken a three-hour rodeo to test them . |
| 7 | Stability had not provided an increase in the number of occupational pensioners , but it had provided a secure environment for the lucky half of the nation who were covered . |
| 8 | Unemployment may well have fallen since 1987 , but it has increased a great deal in the past year . |
| 9 | The whole controversy was surely settled by Coleridge in Biographia Literaria ( 1817 ) , but it has remained a hardy perennial in critical studies of Wordsworth . |
| 10 | The role of the Pope is not discussed by Freud , but it has played a key role in the Roman Catholic and Protestant hostilities . |
| 11 | THE deregulation of television in Italy has brought viewers more sport , more often than perhaps in any other European country but it has caused a tremendous row among the broadcasters and the political power groups who back their various causes . |
| 12 | More can be done and more is being done and we shall encourage the industry to go out and get more business wherever it is ; but it has made a good start . |
| 13 | ‘ But it has become a big thing now , has n't it ? ’ he added with evident bewilderment . |
| 14 | France has had no super-communications ministry ; but it has had a long tradition of state control , planning and Jacobin centralism . |
| 15 | Advances in information technology have so far done little to change the telephone itself , but IT has had a dramatic affect on the underlying telecoms infrastructure , and the way we use it |
| 16 | On May 26th a full-blown review of the matter was announced , but it has left a bad smell of abuse of power . |
| 17 | The flaws in some of the ideas put forward by the Board have been cogently exposed , but it has shown a welcome willingness to take account of criticisms and alter its position accordingly . |
| 18 | It 's got a posh name , I ca n't remember what it 's called now , but it has got a posh name too . |
| 19 | It was then , and still is now , very much an island holiday paradise , but it 's come a long way from what were fairly basic beginnings and in addition to natural beauty can now offer resorts as modern and sophisticated as anywhere else in the Med . |
| 20 | Yes there is , but it 's got a new name , called |
| 21 | on that side but it 's got a little bit of black on it , do you reckon that 's anything to do with it ? |
| 22 | Yeah I like that , I like the sound of that one , but it 's got a few big words in it |
| 23 | Erm an alkali is contained in the base family but it 's got a special property . |
| 24 | No actually it does n't have a curve , it is a triangle but it 's got a longer base has n't it ? |
| 25 | But it 's got a huge garden which with the two boys I think will be marvellous . |