Example sentences of "but it [verb] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it takes great courage for a politician to try and persuade voters of that fact . |
| 2 | But it produced critical evidence about how different designs of tax would hit marginal seats and heartland Tory ones . |
| 3 | But it had great difficulty in finding the necessary funds for this purpose , and , partly for this reason and partly because of sheer bureaucratic inefficiency , the payment of the subsidies was always much delayed . |
| 4 | This was not a new idea , but it attracted increasing support from the 1880s , due partly to the failure of alternative solutions to unemployment and to the apparent unlikelihood of more work being generated in the towns . |
| 5 | It enrolled less than 50 members but it attracted active support from up to 2,000 sympathizers . |
| 6 | The articles of agreement stipulated that gold was the official numeraire in terms of which each currency 's exchange value was to be pegged , but it became common practice for countries to adopt a par value for their currencies expressed in terms of the dollar . |
| 7 | Their evidence was a bit messy , but it breathed new life into the debate . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The book is an imaginative outgrowth of practical criticism , but it breaks new ground in its choice of late Augustan poets — Charles Wesley and Samuel Johnson — and ( by a bold leap of association ) Wordsworth , Coleridge and the later Romantics : its chapter on ‘ Shelley 's urbanity ’ , paradoxical in its very title , showing the entry of a commanding new critical voice . |
| 10 | The competition was fished on the River Glem which looked uninviting , running gin clear and low , but it provided excellent match for the hard working delegates . |
| 11 | The Treasury is only a small department in terms of the number of civil servants that work there but it has tremendous power as a result of its financial role at the heart of government . |
| 12 | Thus , Irish nationalism is conceived by most members in an abstract way , but it has concrete import for key groups . |
| 13 | This kind of access to recording facilities is not of course practicable in many language teaching situations but it has considerable potential on intensive courses where students have many contact hours . |
| 14 | But it has growing influence in the US , and money too , says Bruce Shapiro |
| 15 | This need not be a problem , especially as each will have a different approach to the same material , but it makes obvious sense on many counts if the teachers are each prepared for this by consultation . ) |
| 16 | But it makes commercial sense for them to respond to pressure . |
| 17 | ‘ Some people tend to think it 's some faraway problem that will never come to anything , but it destroyed human decency before and it can again if we do n't stand up to it . |
| 18 | ALAN Kernaghan is ready to book a World Cup passage to America but it means waving goodbye to Middlesbrough . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Medical involvement was mainly in the background , but it included expert knowledge of abnormal neuromuscular function and its alleviation . |