Example sentences of "but it [verb] [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea of New Towns has a long pedigree , but it received its twentieth-century fillip through the garden city movement ( Osborn and Whittick , 1963 ) . |
| 2 | But it had its positive aspects . |
| 3 | And as I said , it , it was er , it , it , it , it was , it was denigrated but it had its own strengths , and the Margaret case er , is , is one of them . |
| 4 | This was n't the Dorchester or the Ritz , but it had their ineffable air of serene affluence . |
| 5 | And if that allocation is pushed through , if you like in the teeth of the structure plan policy , but it becomes your local plan , and that 's the legislation provides for that , that surely must be the the question . |
| 6 | ABSEILING 130ft from maltings at Bury St Edmunds is not everyone 's ideal Saturday afternoon pastime but it suited our daring duo from the maltings , and from Export . |
| 7 | But it has its mundane side , like backache and swollen ankles . |
| 8 | Among the Conservatives , the equivalent is the 1922 Committee ( since it was founded in that year ) but it has its weekly meetings without ministers or shadow ministers present , dealing with the party leaders through an elected chairman . |
| 9 | The centre has already placed 50 or 60 people here or abroad but it has its own problems to overcome : there are few , if any overseas versions of NISW as most of the work tends to be located in the ministries of health or welfare . |
| 10 | It 's more of an English tweed suit of a butterfly than a Sultan 's robe but it has its own uniqueness and beauty . |
| 11 | In a recent television programme on the subject of war photography ( presented somewhat predictably by William Shawcross — the Vietnam industry may cast its net wide but it has its favourite media starts and Shawcross is one of them ) . |
| 12 | It was slow , backbreaking work , but it gave her great satisfaction . |
| 13 | But it gave its inner-city policy a new direction by stressing the role of private enterprise in economic regeneration . |
| 14 | It may be a wonderful alternative to fossil fuel but it brings its own problems . |