Example sentences of "but it [verb] [adj] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was all very well , but it left big questions of detail in how the mixed economy was to be run . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | To a large degree this was centred , although not confined , to the newer , suburban churches , but it affected all aspects of Nonconformist church-life . |
| 4 | But it includes large parts of the Wear Valley district where the LibDems took spectacular local authority control from Labour in May . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | China is already a big exporter of tungsten but it has major reserves of titanium , tin , copper . |
| 8 | 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 . |