Example sentences of "but it [vb past] [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 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was slow , backbreaking work , but it gave her great satisfaction . |
| 7 | But it gave its inner-city policy a new direction by stressing the role of private enterprise in economic regeneration . |