Example sentences of "but it [verb] [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was diagnosed eventually as congenital heart failure , though at first doctors thought it was liver failure , but it had also affected the lungs . |
| 2 | But it had also become a flourishing offshore finance centre with 347 banks before the investigation . |
| 3 | Not only had the farm to generate a living wage but it had also to provide the necessary capital for reinvestment in the business . |
| 4 | This had given a couple of extra feet of clearance , but it had also left the steel ends of the support joists exposed . |
| 5 | But it had already made a difference in the balance of class origins of future generations . |
| 6 | Er it was known by archaeologists and the Royal Commission of Ancient and Historical Monuments had done a survey , but it had only done a very brief survey , and they said this is part of something left of a medieval building here . |
| 7 | Teeth marks showed clearly where the dog had bitten , but it had hardly broken the skin . |
| 8 | In view of the stringent financial requirements imposed on BR by the government this may be a little unfair but it does neatly encapsulate the views of many commentators looking at the likely impact of the Tunnel on the South East after 1993 . |
| 9 | As already implied , the content of the foregoing speculations on the source and scale of man 's capability for life enjoyment and all that it could mean is , of course , hypothetical , and in any case the development was spread over millions of years , but it does however provide a basis for thought which does not require the invocation of the supernatural . |
| 10 | Er , now the the point I really want to refer to is erm just what role an auditor ought to play er in the er insurance and financial service industry in looking at particular firms , erm I have several interests which the honourable member for Edinburgh central knows about , er the one that I think is relevant er to tonight is that I am an elected member of the insurance brokers registration council and the way that erm the way that we regulate insurance brokers erm is laid down by statute but it does actually demonstrate the advantage , the benefit of erm of having a statutory requirement for audit and for er a proper oversight of what then follows in terms of the way that the regulator reacts to what the auditor may say . |
| 11 | The video does not have a lot to say about stress brought about by sexual harassment but it does rightly emphasise the importance of professional workers leaving their personal problems at home . |
| 12 | One of the effects of this reflation was a huge surge in imports and a record trade deficit , but it did also restrict the growth of unemployment . |
| 13 | Annexed to the notice was a document entitled ‘ Guidance for persons being interviewed at Elm House under section 2 of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 ’ This was largely concerned with the physical circumstances in which the interview would be conducted , but it did also inform the recipient of the notice that : |
| 14 | The second approach , occupational structure , has been invalidated by both the population turnaround and the loss of agricultural employment already discussed , but it did once allow a reasonable classification to be made consisting of agricultural-rural , rural and rural-urban ( Robertson , 1961 ) . |
| 15 | The relation between contemporary modes of communication and the contemporary novel may not always be obvious or straightforward , but it has profoundly changed the ways in which people think about fiction and the value they attach to reading . |
| 16 | Last year Dillons got John Mortimer on a holiday weekend , which was not good timing , but it has since made a niche for itself with local books . |
| 17 | Simplicity need not always mean economy , but it has traditionally created a bias towards the single-purpose system , which allows concentration on point-design performance , as opposed to the multipurpose system common to Western inventories , which demands complicated and sophisticated design solutions . |
| 18 | That sort of money is attracting a lot of farmers , but it has also made the RSPCA concerned about the welfare of the birds . |
| 19 | The demise of an orthodox Marxism may have left theory with a sense that everything is now in flux , that the old verities have gone , but it has also involved the important realization , articulated so forcibly by writers such as Foucault or Said , of the deep articulation of knowledge with power . |
| 20 | This is basically a protective action , an attempt to save the eyes from possible danger , but it has also become a way of reducing the unbearable tension of the moment . |
| 21 | But it has also underlined the absence of any equivalent increase in their political weight . |
| 22 | For example , government provision of housing may be seen as a response to the inadequacies of the market as a provider of houses , but it has also transformed the character of that market . |
| 23 | ‘ The county council has to make up the remainder but it has already limited the amount it intends to spend . ’ |
| 24 | Such work is starting to have an effect in feminist psychology , but it has already had a great influence on feminism . |
| 25 | But it has already had an impact and led to some innovative developments at other levels — for example , on the need to improve working conditions and workplace reform . |
| 26 | At that time , as George Orwell reflected , the campaign appeared to be exerting some impact upon British politics for , ‘ In England the Popular Front is only an idea , but it has already produced the nauseous spectacle of bishops , Communists , cocoa-magnates , publishers , duchesses and Labour MPs marching arm-in-arm to the tune of ‘ Rule Brittania ’ . |
| 27 | This latest leak might have been designed to expose the Chancellor but it has instead exposed the extremely lax security of Britain 's banks and credit card companies . |
| 28 | The 22-year-old may have only recently started thinking about playing for Scotland , but it has quickly become the most important goal in his life . |
| 29 | Braintree favours the western by-pass , which also has widespread local support , but it has consistently opposed the link road , echoing the environmental concerns of many residents . |
| 30 | ‘ The dialectic ’ , according to Sartre , ‘ is both a method and a movement in the object ’ ( I , 20 ) : Marxism asserts simultaneously that both the process of knowledge and the structure of the real are dialectical , but it has never proved the former — basing its claim to truth instead on the ‘ dogmatic dialectic , of natural science . |