Example sentences of "but it [verb] [num] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The American basswood body has some obvious Telecaster influences , but it sports three custom-wound DiMarzio Q-100 pickups , a single tone and a single volume control , a 5-position pickup selector switch and a Floyd-Rose licensed locking tremolo system . |
| 2 | This policy may have seemed ‘ reasonable ’ to the civil service , but it had two major flaws . |
| 3 | But it took five more years , and the Tiananmen massacre , for its residents fully to grasp their prospective vulnerability as citizens of China . |
| 4 | Finally , under the obscurity of dust and smoke the Germans managed to get a foothold on the summit , but it took three more days of bitter close combat before the vital Côte 304 was finally theirs . |
| 5 | It will consist of waste sent to the Sellafield reprocessing plant , Much of the waste is of the low-level variety , but it includes 10,000 cubic metres of medium-level waste , and 80 cubic metres of high-level waste . |
| 6 | ferry timetables forced a quick visit , but it allowed two good days ' walking . |
| 7 | Here 's a lovely winter scene but it contains ten deliberate mistakes . |
| 8 | The task is immense , painfully long-term and difficult to ‘ sell ’ , but it has one great merit as a grounding for optimism : there is no alternative , no quick fix . |
| 9 | ‘ But it has one enormous advantage over Bedfordshire Comprehensive . ’ |
| 10 | The 1936–37 season back home was Darling 's last , but it embraced three fine achievements at the MCG : centuries in the South Australia and Queensland matches , and a recall for the third Test match , in which Australia began their fightback after losses in the first two Tests . |
| 11 | But it follows 27 consecutive months of rising unemployment and record business failures . |
| 12 | In the Soviet manufacturing sector it costs 0.7 million roubles in capital investment to increase production capacity by one million roubles , but it costs four million roubles to achieve the same result in the extractive sector . |