Example sentences of "but it [adv] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But it utterly prevented permanent victory .
2 Michael Feist Countryside special sites could be in open countryside away from Government policies concerning sustainability , I wonder how Professor Lock would see the situation emerging whereby a local authority has allocated a certain amount of land in its local plan for development for industrial or commercial purposes , it 's tried to erm identify a broad range of criteria but it also identified special sites erm which will only be released in exceptional circumstances , that happened to be an open countryside and had the advantages that it may be a little close to the A one or somewhere similar .
3 But it also had implicit ones .
4 It called for strong winds in order to execute the full range of manoeuvres ; but it also had sufficient lifting power for Don to go on television and demonstrate its use as a crop sprayer , photo-ship or bird scarer !
5 The implications of this were discussed almost entirely in relation to the release of land for housing , but it also had considerable implications for the tenure pattern of new housing .
6 But it also had potential drawbacks , because the use of a church 's income , or part of it , to provide for members of a family could assume a disproportionate weight compared with religious observance .
7 But it also offered other advantages — protection of British jobs against cheap foreign imports , and an inflow of customs duties to the Treasury which could be used to pay for the escalating costs of both armaments and social reforms .
8 But it also provided crucial evidence on the trade in birds , which is uncovered by Central TV 's Cook Report tonight .
9 It was essentially an extension of the friendly society schemes — the societies helped administer it — but it also covered occupational groups that had never been able to be members .
10 No one knows who first made the quip but it soon had universal currency .
11 Milton and Pooley had had this ritual described fully to them , graphically and with actions , but it still held great fascination .
12 But it certainly received massive media coverage .
13 The Borneo trip might have been designed to match Clare 's wildest dreams , but it undoubtedly involved real risk .
14 This trade was hardly predictable , relying as it did on the uncertain movements of the pelagic fish shoals , but it always attracted large fleets of foreign vessels , mainly those of the Eastern Block states .
15 But it hardly prevented conciliatory answers .
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