Example sentences of "[noun] but it [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could do good but it does more bad |
| 2 | The heating was on inside the car but it did little to drive out the chill that seemed to have settled in her bones . |
| 3 | down into his arteries and we ca n't get anything down there so they 're blocked , but he said how the hell he survived that op I do n't know he said they could 've done more with his legs but it meant another hour and a quarter minutes in surgery , and he said he 'd had enough we could n't have kept him on the table a minute longer so he said all we can do is wait , so now mum said well he 's alright in intensive care , he 's responding well , getting over the operation well , but what we was worried about was him breathing on his own , had he , had he been you see , anyway he said this on er Thursday |
| 4 | This is essentially a digging tool but it has another function I have always found particularly useful . |
| 5 | Multimedia is one ingredient in this climate of change and potential diversification but it has some particular implications which publishers need to understand . |
| 6 | I mean I I had the guitar stuff done within an hour but it getting all vocals over-dubbed and doubling everything up and then , it took forever to mix it together . |
| 7 | I 'd have hoped the England team would have been selected on quality and experience but it seems those qualities are not important any more |
| 8 | ‘ I would have hoped teams were selected on quality and experience but it seems those qualities are not important any more . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He had been carrying his umbrella but it did little to protect him . |
| 12 | THERE is another festival of sport this Sunday but it requires some channel switching . |
| 13 | this morning but it 's all gone except for where in in the shadow |
| 14 | And I tried to do a pattern but it sent all my eyes crazy counting these |
| 15 | It is a fast and relatively cheap working method but it turns this into a real Spaghetti Opera , where the soundtrack never quite gels with the visuals . |
| 16 | Such a word may be useful to a literary man but it throws little light on Green 's intentions except when he uses it in a negative sense ; in one chapter he states a subject was ‘ unpicturesque and consequently not worth an artists attention ’ . |
| 17 | Scotland , Wales and Northern Ireland all enjoy a species of regional government but it savours more of deconcentration than of devolution . |
| 18 | Boenninghausen had previously produced a repertory but it contained many more remedies under each heading than Kent 's repertory , which is easier to use . |
| 19 | The element of performance referred to under Dramatic playing occurs as part of a participant 's expression but it has such clarity and selectivity of communication to other participants that it acquires the ‘ adjectival ’ , descriptive characteristic of performing . |
| 20 | It was a short note but it took half the morning , a thousand attempts . |
| 21 | In many ways the movement was a distant bogey but it worried many landowners whose rent rolls were hit by the heavy load of poor rates , now a quarterly impost almost everywhere . |
| 22 | This version is lighter than a traditional Christmas pudding but it has all the flavour . |