Example sentences of "but it [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | For the recipe that follows , Conference will do , but it lacks the plump punch of its more aristocratic cousins . |
| 32 | The more compressed style is of course more likely in the carefully constructed world of literary expression , but it lacks the dynamic punch of the conversational sequence . |
| 33 | The contract may be good or the cheque generous , but it lacks the binding authorization of a signature . |
| 34 | The Tchaikovsky was decently played but it lacked the passionate intensity that the score asks for , if not demands . |
| 35 | The exercise shaved off $4bn from the 1990 target , but it raised the 1989 deficit by an equal amount . |
| 36 | But it laid the worst crimes at the door of the army , and recommended the dismissal of 40 serving officers . |
| 37 | The dominance of Lully in Jacques 's musical life might seem unusual since he was only 14 years old when Lully died , but it reflects the continued interest in Lully 's music throughout Europe well into the 18th century . |
| 38 | But it reflects the astronomical consensus of what probably did happen . |
| 39 | Resolution 242 may get them around the same table but it leaves the real bones of contention untouched . |
| 40 | It might have been a tail light going the other way but it stayed the same size . |
| 41 | Tolonen was to step back into the job , but it seems the new T'ang wants a new man in the post . ’ |
| 42 | But it seems the only accounts the cash ended up in , were his own secret ones in Florida and Spain . |
| 43 | But it includes the causal theory as a special case , since we might think that if the fact that p does cause a 's belief that p , then the two subjunctive conditionals will be true ( but not vice versa ) . |
| 44 | That is a complicated formula but it contains the central issue that keeps on cropping up in " the debates between the socio-cultural anthropologists and the sociobiologists . |
| 45 | and put it down , it , on the kitchen floor of this place , and in the , our sitting room we had a carpet it was er a carpet of David 's mother 's actually , but it covered the entire sitting room and it looked rather nice you know , because it was a big room and we also had a carpet of sorts in the bedroom . |
| 46 | He explained payments in eight monthly instalments may give the impression that tenants were paying more but it covered the full year . |
| 47 | This is not the most familiar approach to quantum theory , but it gives the same results as other methods . |
| 48 | After it has been sacrificed , the salamander 's tail wriggles about just like the lizard 's tail , but it has the additional advantage that it often contains poison glands which the killer finds pungently distasteful . |
| 49 | It may be more difficult to make quick decisions , but it has the additional merit of making the design decisions those of the staff as a whole . |
| 50 | one is made better because of what 's happening inside his mind , but it has the opposite effect on someone else . ’ |
| 51 | But it has the compelling authority that only intimate knowledge and great indignation can bring . |
| 52 | The one-piece suit is not mandatory for powder skiing , but it has the significant advantage of guaranteeing no snow penetration at the waist . |
| 53 | Traditionally , 24 hours of heart beat would be recorded on a device using a cassette tape , which works perfectly well , but it has the obvious problems of mechanical parts , moving parts , it makes a noise that might keep you awake at night . |
| 54 | This may well be a socially beneficial outcome , but it sets the criminal law dangerously at large unless the exercise of the powers thereby conferred is the subject of careful scrutiny by the courts . |
| 55 | But it makes the strongest case I have ever read for reassessing the role of the post-war welfare state in the cultural field , and will force even those who are not convinced by his arguments to sharpen up their own . |
| 56 | I shall not read it out , because there is not time , but it makes the very point that , purely and simply for medium-term policies and commercial reasons , we shall sterilise billions of tonnes of coal . |
| 57 | The contrast may therefore serve to illustrate one major merit of Brooks 's criticism and of the New Criticism in general : their use of ideas such as irony may seem exaggerated and confusing , but it makes the important point that the meaning of poetry , though possibly analyzable , can not be expressed properly in the form of a conventional prosaic statement . |
| 58 | The parallel is not exact , but it underlines the usual perception that in education/industry partnerships education tends to receive while industry tends to give . |
| 59 | The internal politics of the profession in a recession economy have not been resolved by this scheme ( Smith and Thomas 1978 ) but it illustrates the irrecon-cilable tensions between individual economic advancement , collegiate unity and community/client interest , tensions which were recognised by our respondents . |
| 60 | An organisation once the size of a Station now resided in one small corner of the airfield at Wyton but it maintained the excellent tradition that saw it produce many thousands of aircrew . |