Example sentences of "but it [verb] [adv] [vb infin] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | That Asian children are teased about their food may not seem very important in itself , but it does rather lead to the thought — if people eat food which is thought of as disgusting and unclean what are these people like ? |
| 2 | But it does not feel to them like real work and there is no financial reward and rarely any specific long-term achievable objectives which can be shared with others . |
| 3 | The government wants to tighten immigration controls , but it does not want to be seen as anti-Semitic . |
| 4 | But it does not apply to minute epidermal lesions that leave the basal lamina intact , or to embryonic epidermal cells moving on a rigid adhesive substratum in culture : here the conventional mechanism of epidermal crawling seems to operate . |
| 5 | The rationale for not keeping creditors accounts is not only rather shortsighted ( because you might lose the goodwill of your suppliers ) but it does not apply to debtors accounts — it is for certain that you will want to know precisely who owes you money and how much they owe you . |
| 6 | All that can be said for certain is that I respond to all of it — vixen , trees , plants , birds , the lot — but it does not respond to me . ’ |
| 7 | A legal system must take steps to control the use of force but it does not have to be totally successful in order to remain a legal system . |
| 8 | Discourse may be composed of one or more well-formed grammatical sentences and indeed it often is — but it does not have to be . |
| 9 | But it does not have to be so . |
| 10 | The word order in these Kalkadoon sentences is the same as in English , but it does not have to be . |
| 11 | This does not settle a continuing debate but it does not need to . |
| 12 | Your chair needs to support your spine , cushion your bottom and be at a convenient height for writing — but it does not need to be upholstered or to swivel or to have a head/footrest or whatever . |
| 13 | That may be true , and it might affect the balance of advantage and disadvantage , but it does not need to be resolved at this stage . |
| 14 | Frogs and toads occasionally employ this device , but it does not seem to be very widespread among these amphibians . |
| 15 | It is unlikely , but it does not seem to be ‘ wrong ’ in quite the same way as the sentences in Task 3 . |
| 16 | But it does n't pay to be too jumpy , and run away from every approaching shape , or there 'd be little time left for anything else . |
| 17 | Fate is cruel , or perhaps it is n't , but it does n't answer to me . |
| 18 | ‘ You believe Emma is suffering , but it does n't matter to you that I 've worries of my own to contend with . |
| 19 | But it does n't need to be like that to be important . ’ |
| 20 | Of course the food should be lovely and delicious , but it does n't need to be complicated . |
| 21 | But it does n't seem to be an acceptable idea that something like burglary or a street crime can cause quite severe emotional disturbance . ’ |
| 22 | There are traces of blue-green algae on the tips of some of the plant leaves , but it does n't seem to be spreading as yet . |
| 23 | ‘ There is — but it does n't seem to be enforced . ’ |
| 24 | Crime they say does n't pay , well you may have your own views on that but certainly across the breadth of variety of criminal activity we might agree that crime almost always hurt someone , more or less , we have a system designed to cope with the effects of crime and to deter future criminals , but it does n't seem to be making crime a thing of the past , so how good are we at dealing with crime , tonight 's hundred women have a broad range of experience as victims , law women , perpetrators , police and others , we 'll be hearing their views on the system and how it might be changed and asking why are we all so fascinated by fictional crime from Cell Block H to Agatha Christie . |
| 25 | Sorry if some of you are still a bit cold but I thought the heater had been turned on , but it does n't seem to be doing anything . |
| 26 | Erm , it 's true that in general we do have different memories than other people do er but it does n't seem to be fully individuating in that any change in the contents of the memory would produce a change in . |
| 27 | I know it goes underground , but it does n't seem to so much these days . |
| 28 | But it does n't seem to be worthwhile to chuck out all the bits of paper we 've got and replace them all just to get the colour right . |
| 29 | Yes , I do n't see but it does n't seem to me that there 's anything intrinsically better about Beethoven than Madonna . |
| 30 | We 've trying showing her that we do n't mind when we lose but it does n't seem to work work . |