Example sentences of "but it [vb past] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Granted , Vitor continued to blame her , but it represented some kind of progress . |
| 2 | But it produced critical evidence about how different designs of tax would hit marginal seats and heartland Tory ones . |
| 3 | The bus held about twenty people , but it carried all manner of other things . |
| 4 | This was a return to the test of outrage , with all its faults , but it met little outrage in Standing Committee and fell only because of the dissolution of Parliament for the 1987 General Election . |
| 5 | But it had great difficulty in finding the necessary funds for this purpose , and , partly for this reason and partly because of sheer bureaucratic inefficiency , the payment of the subsidies was always much delayed . |
| 6 | The view that the East Ropery Banks site might be considered for ‘ high value ’ housing in order to provide potential consumers for the shopping centre had first been expressed in the Poulson Report of 1965 , but it had greater saliency by 1971 because the authority was already dealing with its second property company ( Town and City ) and it was clear that market conditions made the redevelopment of North Shields centre a highly marginal project . |
| 7 | All the leading cars traded places briefly during a flurry of pit-stops but it had little effect on Prost who was able to pull clear and win comfortably . |
| 8 | All the leading cars traded places briefly during a flurry of pit-stops but it had little effect on Prost who was able to pull clear and win comfortably . |
| 9 | The house had not the vistas or the parkland of Auckland Castle , and its chapel could hardly compete with the chapel at Auckland , but it had good walks along the Ouse . |
| 10 | The famous Marx Brothers ' contract scene in A Night at the Opera ( " The party of the first part shall be known in this contract as the party of the first part " ) exaggerated the worst excesses of legal drafting , but it had some basis in fact . |
| 11 | But it had obvious difficulties for many students who found they could not manage both love affairs and study . |
| 12 | That was all very well , but it left big questions of detail in how the mixed economy was to be run . |
| 13 | The Second World War added no territory to the Empire , but it left British troops in occupation of the Italian empire in Africa , and the Dutch and French empires in the Far East . |
| 14 | This was not a new idea , but it attracted increasing support from the 1880s , due partly to the failure of alternative solutions to unemployment and to the apparent unlikelihood of more work being generated in the towns . |
| 15 | It enrolled less than 50 members but it attracted active support from up to 2,000 sympathizers . |
| 16 | Throughout the first two weeks of the campaign almost twothirds of our panel cited unemployment as the ‘ main issue ’ that should be discussed but it got little coverage on television news . |
| 17 | But it omitted any reference to the dangers of ‘ Leftism ’ , despite the fact that Deng had stressed this , and that it was at the heart of a party politburo statement . |
| 18 | The articles of agreement stipulated that gold was the official numeraire in terms of which each currency 's exchange value was to be pegged , but it became common practice for countries to adopt a par value for their currencies expressed in terms of the dollar . |
| 19 | Political anti-semitism attracted mass support for the BUF in a limited geographical area , but it engendered greater hostility within those same localities and had appalling consequences elsewhere . |
| 20 | Their evidence was a bit messy , but it breathed new life into the debate . |
| 21 | Camberwell did not have a major industry that distinguished it from other London districts , but it offered sufficient variety of employment to engage a majority of the workforce ; other breadwinners did not have to go far to reach central London . |
| 22 | It may have rained for hours , but it made little difference to the River Lambourn . |
| 23 | The stripes were hardly noticeable , as the cut was left longer here , but it took slight bumps in the ground in its stride , and cut well up to edges . |
| 24 | But it took many years for the ordinary people of the area to benefit from tourism in any worthwhile economic sense . |
| 25 | A wizened butler opened the door to Topaz , but it took five minutes of heated argument before she was allowed to step over the threshold of Stone Towers . |
| 26 | But it took some while for the tractors to become available in other markets . |
| 27 | But it took some time for our achievement to sink in . |
| 28 | But it took some time for our achievement to sink in . |
| 29 | The incident last weekend happened just a few hundred yards from Bishop Auckland ambulance station , but it took 25 minutes for a vehicle to arrive from Durham City 12 miles away . |
| 30 | To a large degree this was centred , although not confined , to the newer , suburban churches , but it affected all aspects of Nonconformist church-life . |