Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 This is essentially a digging tool but it has another function I have always found particularly useful .
4 Multimedia is one ingredient in this climate of change and potential diversification but it has some particular implications which publishers need to understand .
5 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 .
6 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
7 ‘ I would have hoped teams were selected on quality and experience but it seems those qualities are not important any more .
8 He had been carrying his umbrella but it did little to protect him .
9 this morning but it 's all gone except for where in in the shadow
10 And I tried to do a pattern but it sent all my eyes crazy counting these
11 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 .
12 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 ’ .
13 Scotland , Wales and Northern Ireland all enjoy a species of regional government but it savours more of deconcentration than of devolution .
14 Boenninghausen had previously produced a repertory but it contained many more remedies under each heading than Kent 's repertory , which is easier to use .
15 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 .
16 It was a short note but it took half the morning , a thousand attempts .
17 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 .
18 This version is lighter than a traditional Christmas pudding but it has all the flavour .
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