Example sentences of "but it [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It assumes no previous security experience , but it assumes a familiarity with the PC , with DOS and with the elements of LANs . |
2 | But it assumes a dichotomy between nature and supernature that oversimplifies the theologies of the past . |
3 | Again , this design gives it only vague impressions of light and shade , but it allows the ostracod to collect a phenomenal amount of the illumination available in its dimly lit environment . |
4 | The distinction works only in part , at least so far as social work is concerned , but it allows the author to develop and use as a thread through the discussion , the historically gendered nature of the division between the so-called caring professions and professions such as medicine , law , and architecture . |
5 | This is very low , and would never be used in practice , but it allows an example to be shown in a compact diagram . |
6 | But it emphasised the point that the capacity to signal and the capacity to learn combine to make animal communication increasingly rich and complicated . |
7 | I looked nervously at her face , but it wore a smile , a reminiscent smile that I had n't seen before . |
8 | Such a figure may seem insignificant but it represented a strength of purpose and feeling which made the small groups men and women of courage . |
9 | It did not have for him the magnetic feel of the two letters which were folded into his pocket , but it represented the tease of curiosity . |
10 | ‘ But it takes a bit of time to get used to other players and the way of things . |
11 | But it takes a bit quicker , yeah , yeah . |
12 | Your sweet , milk-sop charms may be attracting him now , but it takes a woman to hold him . |
13 | ‘ Your sweet , milk-sop charms may be attracting him now , ’ she 'd said , ‘ but it takes a woman to hold him . |
14 | But it takes a lot to ruffle an XJ6 . |
15 | I 'd only gone say two weeks without it , but it takes a lot longer than that to actually sort yourself out , anyway … . |
16 | But it takes a lot longer than a year to get rid of a bad reputation . |
17 | So it goes south to Gath , but it takes the plague with it , together with an unearthly confusion and terror . |
18 | These are quickly broken down , but it takes the body longer to shed fatty tissue , so weight loss slows down . |
19 | But it takes the eye of an honest man to see it . ’ |
20 | Critchley 's party-piece has the rounded phrasing , the well-turned punchline of frequent rehearsal ( it 's claimed that some of his fans can recite it back to him ) , but it captures the tone of the Tories in those days perfectly . |
21 | J : It 's alright , but it sounds a bit dated to me . |
22 | But it sounds a bit better . |
23 | But it sounds a lot more exciting than it is . |
24 | But it represents a compromise between opposing or contradictory interests not untypical of media policy . |
25 | But it represents a way of doing it which is not what the members of this Committee , of all three parties I suspect , want to do . |
26 | This may seem paradoxical , but it represents a gesture of adaptation . |
27 | That the Assembly was sovereign over the Council is true enough as a generalization , but it represents the conclusion of most modern interpretation , rather than the ancient theory . |
28 | He was only clear about the classification as he worked through the foundations of his pragmatism and metaphysics in the 1890s , but it represents the systematization of a set of views that he had been groping towards since the 1860s . |
29 | The collapse was not directly linked to the motor car side , but it threatened the cars ' future . |
30 | This meadowland or mead land was usually low-lying and damp for much of the year , but it produced an abundance of grass which was cut for hay . |