Example sentences of "but it [verb] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has the advantage of relating expenditure to sales , but it discourages innovative approaches to advertising expenditure and does not allow for distinctions to be made between products or sales territories . |
| 2 | But it omitted any reference to the dangers of ‘ Leftism ’ , despite the fact that Deng had stressed this , and that it was at the heart of a party politburo statement . |
| 3 | It may have rained for hours , but it made little difference to the River Lambourn . |
| 4 | ‘ The monument wo n't be finished till the millennium , but it gives another side to American his-story … this is our-story . |
| 5 | Historical biography may be hard to write , but it draws more readers to history than any other genre . |
| 6 | ALAN Kernaghan is ready to book a World Cup passage to America but it means waving goodbye to Middlesbrough . |
| 7 | But it needs some encouragement to port to Unix and substitute it for the server , rather than OS/2 . |
| 8 | It was described as Italianate , but it bore little relationship to the contemporary light Italianate villas of the United States and of English country houses . |
| 9 | The index to the calendar is useful for those who are working on local and genealogical history , but it provides little help to those who are interested in topics of wider historical significance . |