Example sentences of "[noun sg] but it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could do good but it does more bad |
| 2 | This would at best have been a major irritant for an embattled leader of the opposition But it became worse than that . |
| 3 | The heating was on inside the car but it did little to drive out the chill that seemed to have settled in her bones . |
| 4 | Dave also played the old fashioned curved soprano sax , which looks almost like a toy instrument but it sounded clear and forceful in his hands . |
| 5 | Here 's a lovely winter scene but it contains ten deliberate mistakes . |
| 6 | This is essentially a digging tool but it has another function I have always found particularly useful . |
| 7 | Community is part of the job but it needs good management ( paying teachers , costing the use of premises , the division of time other than that which is needed to provide the national curriculum ) as well as a personally felt sense of value . |
| 8 | She worked strenuously to establish the Corby branch and provided courses there in an attempt to sustain a WEA presence in the then new steel town but it became inactive in the early thirties . |
| 9 | The pride of Scotland hold a 2–1 European Cup first leg lead but it looks fragile when you consider the awesome power of Leeds on their own territory and the effect of that Yorkshire choir at full blast . |
| 10 | Multimedia is one ingredient in this climate of change and potential diversification but it has some particular implications which publishers need to understand . |
| 11 | ‘ I started heart massage but it took three minutes to get any sign of life . |
| 12 | Craig Porter made a spectacular goal line clearance from Stephen Galway five minutes from the interval but it proved worthless when the same opponent flicked in number two from the resulting short corner after Andy McBride 's shot had been saved . |
| 13 | The church was not in permanent use and had no resident vicar but it held occasional services and now at Christmas an elderly cleric in retirement had volunteered to conduct a sung Eucharist at nine-thirty with the help of a volunteer choir assembled from the Women 's Institute . |
| 14 | I think it is broken because it says also er Manchester to er I know it 's expensive on British Rail but it says one thousand three hundred and five pounds up there . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | ‘ I would have hoped teams were selected on quality and experience but it seems those qualities are not important any more . |
| 18 | China is already a big exporter of tungsten but it has major reserves of titanium , tin , copper . |
| 19 | He had been carrying his umbrella but it did little to protect him . |
| 20 | It has n't any mark but it looks good . " |
| 21 | this morning but it 's all gone except for where in in the shadow |
| 22 | And I tried to do a pattern but it sent all my eyes crazy counting these |
| 23 | and I thought come into my head , it 's probably complete rubbish but it seems logical at the time which was , if you got rid of er , a lot of the various taxes that they paid and put everything on to VAT , apart from the fact that you 'd be a few , just by upping the rate of VAT they would collect the extra monies , you 'd save a lot of the money you 'd pay in administration costs by , all the various different departments er |
| 24 | In Scotland there was a majority in favour of devolution but it fell short of the 40 per cent of the electorate required by the statute . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 ’ . |
| 27 | Scotland , Wales and Northern Ireland all enjoy a species of regional government but it savours more of deconcentration than of devolution . |
| 28 | We attempted to have the case tried in a Crown Court with a judge and jury but it seemed apparent to us , at our first appearance at the Magistrates Court , that every attempt was made , including the dropping of a crucial charge , to keep the case at that level . |
| 29 | Althusser asserts that all ideology is ‘ centred ’ while science is ‘ decentred ’ and his no subjects and no Subject but it remains unclear how science might escape from ideology . |
| 30 | It was a very basic little radio but it worked fine . |