Example sentences of "but it [vb -s] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 This he will normally be planning to do , but it involves him in a more considerable recasting of his planned activities than the university teacher , and brings him into contact with many more parts of the school life .
2 Well the speeds it achieves wo n't actually take it into the air … but it takes it into the record books .
3 But it does nothing of the sort .
4 At rest the cricket looks like a dead leaf , but it transforms itself at the last moment .
5 But it says nothing about the register being evidence of ownership , and it is not clear what role , if any , it plays in converting an equitable interest to a legal one .
6 No ulterior motive lurks behind it , but it keeps you at a distance .
7 but it tells you on the thing , it , a white thing with a line through it
8 This may well be the case , but it leaves one with an increased sense of respect for Eric Shipton and his companions who , in 1929 , made each of the first three Nelion-Batian traverses ( up and down by what is now regarded as the Normal Route ) , in one day .
9 The advert does not say ‘ go beyond greed ’ but it leaves you in a place where greed — at least for that moment — is obsolete .
10 Of course , you can run the programs in a DOS window , but it seems something of a regressive step .
11 New Zealand has the playing infrastructure but it has nothing like a big enough commercial base .
12 I do not think this experience is confined to women , but it symbolizes something of the quality of the Great Mother , and it shows how we have the ability to conceive and carry to birth on a level other than the physical .
13 Mm , so what if could erm , could come up with a policy , that you pay your premiums in , but it covers you for the whole of your life .
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