Example sentences of "but it [vb -s] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had repeated once more that the central position in the Peace Alliance belonged to the Labour Party " for not only is it the largest opposition party , but it represents the essential core for any progressive alliance — the working class " . |
| 2 | The woman 's killing the man seems metaphorical only , but it fits the present idea — that the one whose identity becomes submerged may want to kill the other . |
| 3 | Case-detection through antenatal screening may have logistic , financial , and manpower impediments to implementation but it remains the favoured strategy . |
| 4 | Now in paperback ( and even bigger ) , this lovingly-detailed history of punk from Malcolm and Vivienne 's art-school antics to Sid 's suicide may drift into occasional pomposity , but it remains the definitive guide to the spirit of '76 . |
| 5 | Attitudinism directly relates ethics to the will , but it neglects the phenomenological fact that we think of values and obligations as something actually there . |
| 6 | But it masks the heavy impact on the South . |
| 7 | Such explicitness would be a disaster in the novel , but it underlies the final text of the pub tirade like a geological substratum , and it reflects the great and growing importance of mystic suffering in Dostoevsky 's post-Siberian work . |
| 8 | Auditory consciousness with its markedly linear character dependent upon the sequencing of events in time is a powerful vehicle for emotion , perhaps especially because the human voice is experienced in this mode , but it lacks the map-like quality of the inner visual panorama . |
| 9 | For the recipe that follows , Conference will do , but it lacks the plump punch of its more aristocratic cousins . |
| 10 | The more compressed style is of course more likely in the carefully constructed world of literary expression , but it lacks the dynamic punch of the conversational sequence . |
| 11 | The contract may be good or the cheque generous , but it lacks the binding authorization of a signature . |
| 12 | The dominance of Lully in Jacques 's musical life might seem unusual since he was only 14 years old when Lully died , but it reflects the continued interest in Lully 's music throughout Europe well into the 18th century . |
| 13 | But it reflects the astronomical consensus of what probably did happen . |
| 14 | But it includes the causal theory as a special case , since we might think that if the fact that p does cause a 's belief that p , then the two subjunctive conditionals will be true ( but not vice versa ) . |
| 15 | That is a complicated formula but it contains the central issue that keeps on cropping up in " the debates between the socio-cultural anthropologists and the sociobiologists . |
| 16 | After it has been sacrificed , the salamander 's tail wriggles about just like the lizard 's tail , but it has the additional advantage that it often contains poison glands which the killer finds pungently distasteful . |
| 17 | It may be more difficult to make quick decisions , but it has the additional merit of making the design decisions those of the staff as a whole . |
| 18 | one is made better because of what 's happening inside his mind , but it has the opposite effect on someone else . ’ |
| 19 | But it has the compelling authority that only intimate knowledge and great indignation can bring . |
| 20 | The one-piece suit is not mandatory for powder skiing , but it has the significant advantage of guaranteeing no snow penetration at the waist . |
| 21 | This may well be a socially beneficial outcome , but it sets the criminal law dangerously at large unless the exercise of the powers thereby conferred is the subject of careful scrutiny by the courts . |
| 22 | But it makes the strongest case I have ever read for reassessing the role of the post-war welfare state in the cultural field , and will force even those who are not convinced by his arguments to sharpen up their own . |
| 23 | I shall not read it out , because there is not time , but it makes the very point that , purely and simply for medium-term policies and commercial reasons , we shall sterilise billions of tonnes of coal . |
| 24 | The contrast may therefore serve to illustrate one major merit of Brooks 's criticism and of the New Criticism in general : their use of ideas such as irony may seem exaggerated and confusing , but it makes the important point that the meaning of poetry , though possibly analyzable , can not be expressed properly in the form of a conventional prosaic statement . |
| 25 | The parallel is not exact , but it underlines the usual perception that in education/industry partnerships education tends to receive while industry tends to give . |
| 26 | It is less ritualized than it was a hundred years ago , but it serves the same purpose of recognizing the event . |
| 27 | This would have led to science becoming a babel ; but it shows the widespread fear among chemists that their science would be ‘ reduced ’ to something else by armchair theorists who did not know how to hold test-tubes or blow glass T-pieces . |
| 28 | But it works the same way as ordinary language . |
| 29 | The horse does not remember logically what happened in a certain situation , but it remembers the associated emotion . |
| 30 | For steady mean conditions the first term of eqn ( 19.20 ) is zero , but it indicates the physical significance of the equation ; in view of the summation convention and so each term in the equation represents some process tending to increase or decrease the kinetic energy of the turbulence . |