Example sentences of "but it [verb] [adv] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it takes so much time and you 're leaving tomorrow . |
| 2 | This calculation may look cumbersome , but it takes very little time and provides record storage positions very effectively . |
| 3 | Freedom from the restraining hand of a squire or a parson no doubt encouraged enterprise but it meant that much activity went unrecorded . |
| 4 | It looks rather splendid , but it attracted so much attention that after two days she took it all out . |
| 5 | The cobbled lane boasted a pub , the Bargee , which the rivermen used , but it saw very few customers once the wharf gates clanged shut . |
| 6 | The House of Lords may be the highest court in the land , but it hears comparatively few appeals each year . |
| 7 | But it ate so much procession power that most PCs could n't drive it fast enough , so hardly anyone bought it . |
| 8 | A Congress of People 's Deputies was elected from the whole country , but it contained too many deputies to be an effective parliamentary assembly . |
| 9 | But it put too much pressure on the relationship , and when it finished I realised that he 'd resented what I had done . |
| 10 | But it has so much scope to go further . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But it places so little emphasis on resistance to the dominant culture , that it either becomes a sort of ‘ toothless liberalism ’ ( Segal 1987 : 24 ) , or ignores politics completely . |
| 13 | But it started again this evening . |