Example sentences of "but it [adv] [vb -s] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This species grows quite large in the wild at up to 20cm , but it rarely achieves such proportions in the aquarium . |
| 2 | We hear thunder when it is close enough for its highest frequencies to reach us , but it also generates infrasonic sounds which travel much further . |
| 3 | Theory does point to a clear suspicion that a lack of competition can , most certainly , lead to inefficiencies , but it also identifies possible benefits from the attainment of lower-cost production . |
| 4 | Not only does this ignore a whole aspect of local state activity — that which opposes the centre — but it also reduces social relations between active human agents to purely functional operations . |
| 5 | For Sumner , law embodies the appearance of reality produced by social relations , so that , for example , an employment contract appears as a consensual contract between equals ( a point also made by Hunt ) , but it also embodies those appearances as they have been seen and interpreted by classes and groups who make laws . |
| 6 | This is an important aspect of the process of developing a school 's strategy of in-service education but it also enables other parties to share in the awareness of what has been achieved and what needs improvement . |
| 7 | Such mastery of basic drives may cost the ego something , but it also brings rich rewards . |
| 8 | The Lexis search may refer you to source material that you have in your library but it also contains unreported cases . |
| 9 | Not only is this episode interesting in itself , but it also contains important lessons which can be applied to similar attempts at implementing Marxism within a democratic framework . |
| 10 | Home Emergency Service is designed to provide essential help rather than regular household maintenance , but it also covers many emergencies arising from normal wear and tear unlike some household insurance policies . |
| 11 | This must be a factor in the cuckoo 's ability to lay its eggs so rapidly , but it also has other advantages . |
| 12 | ‘ Participation ’ is another but it also has other sources . |
| 13 | It has also developed something of an international character ; not only does it attract a proportion of its students from overseas , but it also has strong links with overseas institutions . |
| 14 | But it also has important consequences for the epistemological status of the resulting social theory , and much of the novelty of Marxism is said to arise from its break with traditional conceptions of knowledge . |
| 15 | Writing serves cognitive functions in enabling the child to redraft and refine thoughts and ideas , but it also serves social functions in transmitting messages in the wider world . |
| 16 | The idea is to make powerful syndicate members compete as never before ; but it also restricts non-syndicate members to selling only to small investors . |
| 17 | This arrangement requires a certain amount of restraint and co-operation on the part of the dominant males , but it clearly has compensatory advantages . |
| 18 | The Cadbury Report has placed corporate governance firmly on the profession 's agenda , but it scarcely provides any answers . |
| 19 | Agfa 's Rodinal falls into this category , although at 100 years old it is positively ancient and not modern , but it nevertheless has many qualities that other modern developers have only just caught up with . |
| 20 | The ’ Harriet was hungry ’ example may be only nine words long , but it nevertheless demonstrates many aspects of knowledge that need to be made explicit to a computer before it could be said to understand . |
| 21 | But it too uses passive tests most frequently when it is studying female subjects . |
| 22 | Sinclair improved the system by using two heads on a continuous belt but it still takes four passes of each head to create a row of characters . |
| 23 | The risk can be reduced by flying in the low tow position below the wake , but it still has some disadvantages and towing in this position has not been generally adopted in Europe or elsewhere . |
| 24 | The second , smaller , chest has clearly been ransacked but it still has some items inside . |
| 25 | It can take effect immediately , but it usually takes twenty minutes or so for the full effects to be felt . |
| 26 | ‘ But it only has 4 grams of fat , ’ came the smart reply . |
| 27 | This division reinforces the concept of difference , but it further allows alienistic attitudes to gain a stranglehold , generating an ‘ us and them ’ approach to education . |
| 28 | It certainly sees urban concentrations as resulting from industrialisation and capitalism : but it rapidly places these considerations to one side and looks to interactions between people as the prime explanation . |