Example sentences of "but [conj] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The major criticism of this approach to describing organisations is not that it is inaccurate but that it ignores all the informal and interpersonal aspects of organisations and concentrates too heavily on the formal aspects of work organisations . |
| 2 | But that it took another oh quite a number of years really to get it started up . |
| 3 | There is a danger , if this is done , that it may be forgotten that pottery is not only a fascinating subject in its own right , but that it offers vital dating evidence for the chronology of the site , and the key sherds must appear in the body of the main report , with similar critical evidence . |
| 4 | He knew that the universe was complex but that it obeyed certain rules , although , she supposed , he would n't have used the word ‘ obey ’ with its implication of conscious choice . |
| 5 | Aristotle said something very interesting in that extract from the Politics which I quoted earlier ; he said that women have a deliberative faculty but that it lacks full authority . |
| 6 | He found first that ROI was remarkably stable over time at the company level , but that it showed considerable variation over time for individual businesses ( i.e. the SBUs ) . |
| 7 | But once it gets wet the weight of the water may well kill it . |
| 8 | But once it became clear that most Algerians supported Iraq , the FIS quickly did the same . |
| 9 | By 1911 , when Italy 's newly launched first Dreadnought battleship was significantly named the Dante Alighieri , it claimed 50,000 members ; but although it enjoyed considerable official support it had little influence on government policy . |
| 10 | But although it felt numb , the leg was still bearing his weight , so he hobbled quickly over to the door leading to the basement , jerked it open and dived through . |
| 11 | But if it came unopened , unsealed , he would return the reply unsealed . |
| 12 | But if it had better-information about what was likely to happen in the economy than the private sector , the government could take such measures . |
| 13 | But if it involves simple images , there 's no need to buy the most complicated package . |
| 14 | Provided all the shares are owned by a government agency or by a financial institution , a joint-stock company may become a one-man company , but if it becomes insolvent the sole shareholder is liable for all the company 's indebtedness . |
| 15 | ‘ I accept the recommendation that the licences should not be revoked , but if it becomes public knowledge that the tools are to be used to make munitions , deliveries would have to stop at once . |
| 16 | But if it meant this I ought to know it . |
| 17 | If the bird keeps struggling , it will be clawed and bitten repeatedly by its captor , but if it lies still the cat may then make the mistake of putting it down on the ground and releasing it from its jaws . |
| 18 | But if it makes easy sense when we learn that after the ground clearing achieved in the early publications Joyce sets to work on an enormous new fictional venture , guesses about new preoccupations and the leaving behind of old collapse in face of the reality of Ulysses , for in it we read , among a thousand turnings and an wanderings , of a single day , the sixteenth of June nineteen hundred and four , in Dublin , and how two characters , separately and together , live out that day among the welter of their acquaintance , their needs and deeds and thoughts , their places of refuge and of risk , and if one of these two , Leopold Bloom , is new , the other is Stephen Daedalus , and Dublin is everywhere in the novel , almost to the point where everywhere is Dublin . |
| 19 | It is a matter for further investigation , but if it looks wrong , it is wrong until proved otherwise . |
| 20 | But if it looks vindictive — more a battle for Saddam 's head than for the liberation of Kuwait — public opinion in the West could soon turn . |
| 21 | We 'll make the poor Weavers work at a low rate ; We 'll find fault where there 's no fault , and so we will bate ; If trading goes dead , we will presently show it ; But if it grows bad , they shall never know it ; We 'll tell them that cloth beyond sea will not go , We care not whether we keep clothing or no . |
| 22 | But if it has that civil capability it is all too easy to turn it to less than peaceful purposes . |
| 23 | It ‘ is more dynamic , not in the sense that it expresses movement ( which a noun can also express ) but because it creates more activity between the words of the sentence in which it is used ’ ( 1955a:75 ) . |
| 24 | Wheat was favoured , not merely because of its immediate importance as a basic food , but because it demanded least capital and least care , even where it meant wretched cultivations : only one-tenth of the cereal secano was farmed in regular rotations of wheat and legumes ; a quarter was cultivated only once every six or ten years . |
| 25 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 26 | It does n't , sometimes it goes more slowly sometimes it goes more quickly , sometimes it stops but because it takes two hours to do the hundred miles we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 27 | Professional Footballers ' Association spokesman Brendan Batson said : ‘ Paul spoke to us following his injury , but because it involves two members of our association we have to adopt a neutral position . |
| 28 | Literature is based on ‘ the very plurality of meanings ’ ( 1966 : 50 ) ; or , put in a slightly different way which nicely reverses an old critical saw , ‘ a work is ‘ eternal ’ , not because it imposes one meaning on different men , but because it suggests different meanings to one man' ( p.51 ) . |
| 29 | Cunnilingus is a marginal case but since it involves genital contact and may involve a form of penetration , there is a case for placing it within the more serious category . |
| 30 | It turns I into I , 2 into 4 , but since it turns I + 2= 3 into 9 , which we can all agree is not equal to I + 4 , it does not satisfy [ 5a ] . |