Example sentences of "but it [verb] [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " 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 | 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 |
| 6 | The hydrogen supply was shut off within 10 minutes , but it took two hours to put out the blaze . ’ |
| 7 | But it took 10 minutes to haul her out and attempts to revive her failed . |
| 8 | At Lord 's , Fowler and Lloyd and Gower again made some runs , but it took thirty Extras to help their total to 196 . |
| 9 | But it took 5 months to find them accomodation after she was told to … |
| 10 | I knew what I had to do but it took some courage to switch that light on , I can tell you . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ I started heart massage but it took three minutes to get any sign of life . |
| 15 | They were mostly wrong , but it took several years to find out . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |