Example sentences of "but it [verb] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This addition to the maps made them more useful , especially for agricultural purposes , but it entailed resurveying ground already covered and slowed the progress of subsequent work . |
| 2 | But it seemed to worry Julia and she cried out : |
| 3 | I had been preoccupied with the alchemical vision for some time , but it had become words , ideas , a mere prejudice in favour of the angels , if you like . |
| 4 | Labour protest in the cities might pose no immediate security risk but it had gathered pace ominously throughout the 1870s . |
| 5 | But it had stopped Lord Woodleigh in the most horrible of ways . |
| 6 | But it had taken Duncan Bradford 's vision to persuade his agent that James was gifted enough to be worthy of the expense involved in letting him study medicine . |
| 7 | The aim of the programme had been to divide the big farms into smaller plots and to redistribute the land to the workers , but it had bred uncertainty among landowners and entrepreneurs many of whom , unwilling to part with their property , had delayed investment . |
| 8 | The first glass works in south Yorkshire had been erected in 1632 at Glasshouse Green , Wentworth , on the estate of Sir Thomas Wentworth , the great Earl of Strafford , but it had ceased production before the Civil War . |
| 9 | What was involved in this extension of structural linguistics was a profound alteration of perspective in most of the human sciences ; it was no longer a question of gathering empirically verifiable data ; of turning a positivist gaze onto a world of objects , but it meant seeing forms of expression as signs whose meanings depend on conventions , relations and systems , rather than on any inherent features . |
| 10 | Where Ritualist influence was strong , this campaign achieved some success ; but it failed to eliminate monuments reflecting the mundane interests of the dead . |
| 11 | Our report on this matter was sent to the presbyteries under the act , but it failed to win acceptance . |
| 12 | Scientific knowledge is not proven knowledge , but it does represent knowledge that is probably true . |
| 13 | But it does offer security and freedom from disturbance . |
| 14 | It 's easy to be deceived into thinking none of it makes any sense but it does make sense : a strange , twisted , whimsical , surreal kind of sense . |
| 15 | But it does make sense to paint floors last thing at night , giving the paint a chance to dry overnight . |
| 16 | This extraordinarily convoluted definition , the whole of which is in italics , must have been responsible for deterring thousands of readers from proceeding beyond page 15 of the General Theory , but it does make sense . |
| 17 | Paths with whatever surface is chosen can be laid at the start when the beds are being dug or later at a more convenient time , but it does make life easier if they can be finished before planting the beds . |
| 18 | This does not mean that there are no generalizations that can be made about evolution , but it does make biology a different kind of science from physics . |
| 19 | This does not invalidate Freud 's approach , but it does complicate matters more than he suggests . |
| 20 | But it does mean parents must be totally involved . ’ |
| 21 | But it does scare Oliver now . |
| 22 | The compromise of an extendible lead gives him some freedom to wander but it does give rise to ‘ incidents ’ . |
| 23 | The official regatta has virtually nothing to do with it but it does give farmers with riverside frontage an extra source of income … which has reached six figures , although not this year . |
| 24 | I mean I know we 're only playing here , but it does take effort and , practised effort becomes easier it does n't become hard work . |
| 25 | I am so sure of that now that I can ignore all the pressure to do something else but it does take strength . ’ |
| 26 | But it does take time , you ought not to hurry over it . |
| 27 | But it does take time , and I think , you know , this puts the , this gives the framework in which this can usually open the opportunities and the methodist women are not short of confidence , and I think that 's why I married an anglican , you see . |
| 28 | The throw may not win artistic awards , but it does win medals . |
| 29 | Excavation of sand and gravel may scar the landscape but it does increase habitats for wildlife . |
| 30 | Alas , it is difficult to see it now , due to poor restoration at the beginning of this century , but it does depict Charles IV and Elizabeth of Pomerania with Czech patron saints . |