Example sentences of "but it [verb] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've taken away the master computer file and charged him with , well , we do n't know exactly what but it involves an awful lot of money . |
| 2 | In one way this statement is more conservative than the previous one in that it has elevated the popular usage ‘ Republican Sunday ’ to a part of party language and thus confirmed the belief that Catholicism and republicanism are the same thing , but it represents an important departure from previous positions in clearly tying the DUP 's position to that of the electorate . |
| 3 | The pope was wrong ; the Curia was wrong ; Anselm 's judgement was right but had no authority ; the authority quoted by Ivo was certainly spurious , but it produced an acceptable result . |
| 4 | It may not always mean a great deal ( though sometimes a title of this sort can be read as a genuine sign of worth ) , but it plays an essential part in reassuring people in a notoriously insecure and uncertain business . |
| 5 | Well , yes , of course it could , but it seemed an odd way of going about things . |
| 6 | Perhaps they had adjusted to the sanitised neutralism of a Stockholm commune , but it seemed an odd life for men who had chosen to become soldiers . |
| 7 | I thought she said , ‘ Sand under my plate ’ , but it seemed an unlikely remark , so I smiled , soothing her like a baby . |
| 8 | I wondered briefly whether my father had a tendency to marry women who would make their children unhappy , but it seemed an unfair reflection . |
| 9 | Greenland has been autonomous since May 1 , 1979 , and has a parliament ( Landsting ) and government ( Landsstyre ) with full executive authority , but it remains an integral part of the Kingdom of Denmark . |
| 10 | This hypothesis could not be tested in the course of the present study , unfortunately , but it remains an interesting question which merits attention in the future . |
| 11 | This eventually fostered the birth of Sussex gun-making but it meant an inevitable increase in local tension and a continued vulnerability to French attacks . |
| 12 | The Council was merely an umbrella organization for a large and expanding number of countryside and amenity organizations , but it became an invaluable integrator , particularly on the issue of National Parks when it set up its own Standing Committee . |
| 13 | For example , a small Egyptian gold pendant in the form of a shell ( now in the Egyptian Department of the British Museum , EA 65281 ) is very probably ancient , but it bears an engraved cartouche purporting to be of the Twelfth Dynasty in the early second millennium BC . |
| 14 | In Muslim countries , green — the colour of Mohammed 's coat — is sacred and is very rarely used as a predominant colour ; but it forms an important part of the dyer 's palette in non-Muslim cultures , particularly China ; here , the sacred colour is yellow , in which the Emperor traditionally dressed . |
| 15 | But it displays an astonishing degree of intellectual captivity when the entire way he doubts what he believes is infiltrated too . |
| 16 | Quite rightly , social security contributions are applied to benefits in kind , but it creates an extra burden for employers if the system of assessing the benefit that will be subject to contributions is out of line with income tax . |
| 17 | In the middle of this quiet preview of my academic future , Ma does something — only a small thing , but it breaks an unwritten law of the household — and that 's what started me off … |
| 18 | An assignment requires A and B to be parties to an agreement and A , without B's consent , to transfer rights to X. The Vienna Convention is silent on the assignment of treaty rights , but it seems an evident consequence of State sovereignty that where a treaty provides for an assignment it should be enforceable . |
| 19 | Keyence turns this convention on its head : not only does it subcontract manufacturing , but it has an in-house sales team that accounts for fully half its workforce . |
| 20 | This fresh and flowery sparkling wine — in the pungent Asti style — is not as sweet as some on the market , but it has an attractive Muscatel and almond bouquet . |
| 21 | THE Scottish premiere of a new work is no unusual event but it adds an extra air of intrigue when the piece is less than freshly minted . |
| 22 | But it gave an added attraction to the plenary session anyway . |
| 23 | But it proved an expensive success , and in these straitened times , everybody is playing safe . |
| 24 | Skilfully reconstructed by his modern editors , Smart 's poem yet remains too much in draft form to reveal its patterns fully , but it shows an elaborate network of complex verbal associations . |
| 25 | No agreed reform plan had been forthcoming in 1917–18 but it remained an agreed priority of the government to the end , and pledge after pledge was given . |
| 26 | As Rubinfeld ( 1987 ) notes , this is all right if everyone in the community is identical , but it causes an obvious problem if there is heterogeneity . |