Example sentences of "but it [verb] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bitez offers exciting day cruising , but it takes two weeks to acclimatise most people to the strong winds ! |
| 2 | Roses are naturally at their most beautiful in summer , but it takes year-long care to ensure they maintain their glory . |
| 3 | Any man can be unfaithful , but it takes special circumstances to write a letter like that . ’ |
| 4 | Probably most such birds possess more powerful navigational skills , such as those we shall discuss shortly for pigeons , but it takes special experiments to demonstrate the fact . |
| 5 | But it had one thing missing — a proper paper . |
| 6 | We need to understand the position of the Sanhedrin , Jesus is really representing great changes in their tradition great a great revolution really and we know that what he was doing was was sort of getting Christianity to grow out of Judaism , but it meant that Judaism had to move to one side . |
| 7 | Surely a forlorn ambition , but it goes some way to explain , what would otherwise be so difficult to understand , why eminent members of the nascent |
| 8 | There is no claim that this resolves the differences , but it helps top managers understand where they might focus their efforts in order to improve effectiveness — i.e. it identifies inconsistent schemas . |
| 9 | The hydrogen supply was shut off within 10 minutes , but it took two hours to put out the blaze . ’ |
| 10 | But it took 10 minutes to haul her out and attempts to revive her failed . |
| 11 | At Lord 's , Fowler and Lloyd and Gower again made some runs , but it took thirty Extras to help their total to 196 . |
| 12 | But it took 5 months to find them accomodation after she was told to … |
| 13 | I knew what I had to do but it took some courage to switch that light on , I can tell you . |
| 14 | It was marvellous that it was all over , but it took some time to sink in , and in any event had no immediate effect on most of us . |
| 15 | Relatively little could be done for the first year or two ; Pitt had a view of the war that stretched over the whole world , but it took some time to prepare the resources to give effect to this vision . |
| 16 | Engaged as consultants , Alec Issigonis and Alex Moulton half solved the problem by changing the rear suspension , but it took another outsider to put BRM on the right track . |
| 17 | ‘ I started heart massage but it took three minutes to get any sign of life . |
| 18 | They were mostly wrong , but it took several years to find out . |
| 19 | I mean I I had the guitar stuff done within an hour but it getting all vocals over-dubbed and doubling everything up and then , it took forever to mix it together . |
| 20 | Banc One sets basic yet strict financial targets for the banks it takes over , but it lets local managers decide how to meet them . |
| 21 | She only had one cow , it was all she could afford , but it provided enough milk to go with the porridge in the morning and the potatoes at other meals . |
| 22 | So we , the answer is we do n't really know but it seems common sense to apply barrier precautions and to do everything you can to modify the type of surgery so that the chances of having an injury with a sharp instrument are reduced , and people have made some constructive proposals along these lines . |
| 23 | It is largely derivative , but it contains some stories written from his own experience and that of his personal acquaintances , including an account of his family and its devotion to St Stephen 's church , Launceston . |
| 24 | According to Electronic News it has no OEM customers as yet , but it has two deals cooking . |
| 25 | The ability of modern technology to cope with the problem of soil erosion is summarised thus : ‘ Growing populations may in part have destroyed more land than they improved , but it makes little sense to project past trends into the future , since we know more and more about methods of land preservation and are able by means of modern methods , to reclaim much land , which our ancestors have made sterile . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ It is a serious offence , but it means first-time offenders committing that crime could find themselves in prison . ’ |
| 27 | This on the surface may not seem to be hostile to religion , but it causes severe re-interpretation encouraging many people to regard religion as little more than a culturally derived dressing-up game . |