Example sentences of "but it [adv] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boston did not ignite the recombinant-DNA controversy but it vigorously seized the torch and raised it to national and worldwide visibility . |
| 2 | A local candidate at variance with the national campaign may please the press but it rarely wins the people . |
| 3 | Not only does it ignore the sense in which suffering can be unwitting but it also begs the question in favour of saying , when specific symptoms like struggling or urination occur in animals , that these are properly to be seen as , emotional responses ' ( which covertly elicits our sympathy for the conscious distress of the stricken human parent rather than the symptoms of it observed in the struggling , yet unaware , athlete ) . |
| 4 | But it also describes the experience of being caught between the imagined world of art and the everyday world of loss , pain and survival . |
| 5 | Not only does this provide us with the content to be taught , but it also lays the foundation on which final assessment can be based ; however , before we can devise our objectives , two further collections of information are needed . |
| 6 | But it also had the kind of oddball subject matter that gets one typecast . |
| 7 | But it also had the effect of increasing dependence . |
| 8 | In the first place it could be argued that a democratic government would not impose unreasonably on minorities ; this exposed the party to Liberal charges that they were indifferent to the Irish Nationalists , but it also exposed the weakness of the government 's position , as Law explained to the Commons in January 1913 : |
| 9 | This might appear on the surface the most neutral formulation — there were unarguably three distinct times of battles in 1642–6 , 1648 , and 1650–1 — but it also elides the establishment of parliamentary authority and later Cromwell 's Protectorate . |
| 10 | Not only does this allow it to ‘ grasp ’ the ground more firmly , but it also allows the toes to splay out when the goat is descending an icy slope , giving more effective braking power . |
| 11 | Extraction is a matter of pattern recognition but it also involves the ability to cut across interfering patterns . |
| 12 | Most obviously this includes earnings from tourism but it also involves the image of products , not least whisky . |
| 13 | Dawley ( 1963 ) , later expanded and renamed Telford , situated between Wolverhampton and Shrewsbury , was to accommodate pressure from the West Midlands , but it also served the purpose of tidying up the old mining and industrial area of Oakengates and Wellington . |
| 14 | It symbolized that he was putting himself under the protection of the saint , the patron of his kingdom ; but it also revealed the sort of anomaly which had entered the feudal hierarchy . |
| 15 | The approach to the CNAA in 1965 from the Scottish Woollen Textile College for the associateship in textile design to become a degree raised the questions we have already discussed regarding the position of art and design , but it also raised the question of submissions from colleges where entry standards had not been at the level of the DipTech , and where issues of the college environment needed to be discussed . |
| 16 | But it also reflected the problems of headquarters managers and union leaders in monitoring and controlling activities at lower levels of the organization , and in ensuring that national agreements and regulations were respected . |
| 17 | When the right job did turn up , it was relief for the frustrated star , but it also signalled the end of his marriage . |
| 18 | It meant the acquisition of knowledge , to be sure ; but it also meant the envelopment and direction of the Orient by Spanish adelantados , for the greater glory and expansion of the vast empire of Spain . |
| 19 | A great deal of the stepping seems to have been improvised but it also contained the remnants of old dances . |
| 20 | Their latest album , Wish ( Fiction/Polydor ) , not only includes a song called Wendy Time , but it also celebrates the durability of Smith 's most precious asset , miraculously unimpaired by the passage of the years : his ability to retain a sense of wonder at each manifestation of the most basic of human emotions . |
| 21 | Not only is it physically dependent on older members of the species but it also lacks the behaviour patterns necessary for living in human society . |
| 22 | This , ICL claims , ‘ allows you to keep all choices a la carte ’ , but it also provides the user with support — each user is free to take anything from the range he requires , and although they can have a personalised user interface , the products are integrated and conform to uniform design . |
| 23 | Clint : ‘ It provides a lot of headaches , but it also provides the breath of fresh air we need . |
| 24 | This is in part a function of reduced manning levels on modern ships , particularly container vessels , but it also reflects the flagging out of much of the fleet to flags of convenience . |
| 25 | But it also reflects the failure of feminist art practices and criticism to make a wider mark within women 's studies . |
| 26 | But it also reflects the fact that older workers are , by virtue of their life situation , more reliable . |
| 27 | This emphasis could be justified on the grounds that economics or at least a version of it — lies currently at the heart of government discourse on higher education , but it also reflects the fact that there is more to go on , in terms of information and analysis , with this aspect of the undergraduate curriculum than with the other seven . |
| 28 | This is partly the result of government cutbacks but it also reflects the closure of business activities which were judged not to be viable plus the contracting out of many non-technical services and a continuing quest to achieve greater efficiency in all aspects of the business . |
| 29 | But it also questions the extent to which this freedom creates a loss of democratic control . |
| 30 | Stead 's dramatisation of the issue of sexual exploitation not only stilled for the moment many fundamental conflicts of interest between participants in the agitation , but it also obscured the contradictions inherent in the ideology that informed this agitation against child prostitution . |