Example sentences of "but it [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lloyds runs a similar scheme but it involves just one institution . |
| 2 | But it takes so much time and you 're leaving tomorrow . |
| 3 | This calculation may look cumbersome , but it takes very little time and provides record storage positions very effectively . |
| 4 | On the contrary , it may not last but it represents perhaps one way to move away from traditional easel painting , for example . |
| 5 | The council tax is related to the number of people in a house , but it offers more generous treatment for people such as students , who will not add to the household bill . |
| 6 | In retrospect it was courageous legislation but it had curiously little bite . |
| 7 | Expenditure in the various colleges varied tremendously : in Nottingham Institute ( admittedly non-residential ) it was £30 on each of its 60 students ; Western College in Plymouth spent £136 but it had only fourteen students . |
| 8 | ( The very lowest PTR of any English LEA was in the Isles of Scilly , but it had under 300 pupils in total ) ( CIPFA , 1989 ) . |
| 9 | Freedom from the restraining hand of a squire or a parson no doubt encouraged enterprise but it meant that much activity went unrecorded . |
| 10 | It looks rather splendid , but it attracted so much attention that after two days she took it all out . |
| 11 | The cobbled lane boasted a pub , the Bargee , which the rivermen used , but it saw very few customers once the wharf gates clanged shut . |
| 12 | The House of Lords may be the highest court in the land , but it hears comparatively few appeals each year . |
| 13 | but it says here nominal input twenty five watts R M S here it says maximum what forty watts |
| 14 | This description was entirely correct , but it took nearly 50 years to work out exactly how the different parts fitted together . |
| 15 | It was 2,926 yards long and 14 feet wide , but it took only 3 years to complete because of more advanced engineering methods . |
| 16 | This process can sometimes weaken the pile fibres , but it produces extremely attractive shades of muted red and rose . |
| 17 | The 2D has the same colour quality and light output as an ordinary 100 W light bulb but it uses only 21 W of electricity ( 16 W for the lamp and 5 W for the control gear ) . |
| 18 | But it ate so much procession power that most PCs could n't drive it fast enough , so hardly anyone bought it . |
| 19 | But it requires more crude oil than ‘ normal ’ petrol . |
| 20 | It 's presumably popular for its unusual appearance , but it requires very dim lighting and a peat or sand substrate in which it can burrow for food . |
| 21 | A Congress of People 's Deputies was elected from the whole country , but it contained too many deputies to be an effective parliamentary assembly . |
| 22 | But it put too much pressure on the relationship , and when it finished I realised that he 'd resented what I had done . |
| 23 | This may not be a totally convincing critique of modern society , but it has clear modern relevance and is more than mere dislike . |
| 24 | But it has so much scope to go further . |
| 25 | Our Sun ‘ loses ’ 4 million tons of mass this way every second — but it has so much mass to play with that this rate of mass loss would only add up to 7 per cent of the total after about a trillion ( million million ) years . |
| 26 | The Amiga also has a Motorola 68000 , 512K , a built-in 3.5 inch disc drive and a mouse , but it has much better colour graphics and sound . |
| 27 | This may sound somewhat grand but it has very down-to-earth aspects , such as indicating what is possible and realistic and what tasks are long and short term . |
| 28 | Walt Disney may well have appreciated a tool like this for taking the drudgery out of the cartoon business but it has more serious applications in logo design and very effective business graphics ; one of the stock Adobe illustrations is a plot of the stock market showing a bull turning into a bear ! |
| 29 | Maybe the farmer or his tenant will ask for a percentage of the kill within the agreement , but it makes jolly good sense to ensure that anyone who likes to eat a rabbit and who can influence your sport is well looked after . |
| 30 | It may seem superstitious , but it makes damned fine art , because the vision of release in salvation is so vividly nurtured in Christian history . |