Example sentences of "but it [verb] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Granted , Vitor continued to blame her , but it represented some kind of progress . |
| 2 | The bus held about twenty people , but it carried all manner of other things . |
| 3 | That was all very well , but it left big questions of detail in how the mixed economy was to be run . |
| 4 | Camberwell did not have a major industry that distinguished it from other London districts , but it offered sufficient variety of employment to engage a majority of the workforce ; other breadwinners did not have to go far to reach central London . |
| 5 | A wizened butler opened the door to Topaz , but it took five minutes of heated argument before she was allowed to step over the threshold of Stone Towers . |
| 6 | To a large degree this was centred , although not confined , to the newer , suburban churches , but it affected all aspects of Nonconformist church-life . |
| 7 | But it includes large parts of the Wear Valley district where the LibDems took spectacular local authority control from Labour in May . |
| 8 | Thus the cortex on one side contains a map of only half the visual field , but it contains two versions of that map , one from each eye , superimposed on one another . |
| 9 | In the south you will find Crux Australis , the Southern Cross , which is not genuinely X-shaped ; it is more like a kite , but it contains three stars of above the second magnitude . |
| 10 | China is already a big exporter of tungsten but it has major reserves of titanium , tin , copper . |
| 11 | A festoon blind , on the other hand , hangs like a curtain when it is down but it has vertical rows of rings on the back through which cord is threaded . |
| 12 | The judge 's decision may establish certainty in respect to S&M activities , but it adds another layer of inconsistency to the law 's view of consensual assaults . |
| 13 | The above example may appear something of a curioso , but it illustrates another example of the distinction between what we have referred to as the ‘ traditional ’ approach and the public choice approach to public finance . |
| 14 | But it fastens some sort of cohabitation rule upon them . |
| 15 | But it needs some kind of explanation . |
| 16 | Of course people must be advised carefully but it shows great lack of faith in human na in their abilities and a great arrogance on our part Mr Mayor if we fail to market the ideas simply because we do n't feel the populus are competent to understand it . |
| 17 | Medical involvement was mainly in the background , but it included expert knowledge of abnormal neuromuscular function and its alleviation . |