Example sentences of "but it [verb] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more of these properties a dummy possessed the more strongly it was mobbed , but it seemed to make little difference whether the object was a stuffed owl with real plumage or an owl-shaped piece of painted wood . |
| 2 | But it had done that before . |
| 3 | It had taken them only a short time to realise they were from opposite sides in the Therapeutic Wars , but it had caused little friction . |
| 4 | But it had become impossible for Mr Major to plod on with the same soiled team . |
| 5 | The idea of a woman who would save him was not new , but it had become real , it was no longer fantasy . |
| 6 | It had blown a gale in the early hours and I had been up with my torch at three o'clock to attend to the guy-ropes and check that the washing was still on the line : it was , but it had become red with dust . |
| 7 | She did n't reject it , but it had become irrelevant , its comfort only a candle which served fitfully to illumine the dark . |
| 8 | Knights too were readily identifiable , but it had become imperative to make provision also for the many untitled men whose wealth was as great or even greater . |
| 9 | He said the Government was reluctant to interfere , but it had become aware of ‘ widespread detestation in Parliament ’ of some trends in the popular press . |
| 10 | It had a house which once had a thatched roof , but it had gone derelict and a tree had started growing in the middle of it . |
| 11 | Dick had probably intended to toss it into the quarry , but it had fallen short and the weight of the handles had kept it from slipping over . |
| 12 | It had never been fully constituted or trained as a squadron , but it had achieved most creditable results nonetheless , with over 100 victories plus many more probables and damaged . |
| 13 | But it had established three important points : first , that there was potential to cut across established Green-Orange divisions in pursuing the interests of Derry ; second , that some educated young Catholics who were uninspired by the Nationalist Party would work enthusiastically on a campaign which challenged traditional sectarian prejudices ; and third , many people came to believe that a section , at least , of Derry Unionists was prepared to sacrifice the interests of the city to those of its party . |
| 14 | But it had taken four years from the completion of that review for a decision to be made on the future of the RHA 's six asylums . |
| 15 | She had wanted everything nice and new for Debbie , but it had taken all their remaining savings . |
| 16 | But it had taken bad ways and , by the time he 'd agreed to see the doctor , it was too late . |
| 17 | They had meant it kindly , she knew , but it had hurt all the same . |
| 18 | For over a century the medieval churches which remained had been museums in the care of the European Sector , but it had proved impossible to balance their antiquarian value against the considerable costs of allowing religious practice to take place within them . |
| 19 | Memento Mori was in no sense new in the teaching of the churches , but it had acquired fresh importance in the light of the conversion experience , which was a central feature of the religious revival . |
| 20 | Not that I regretted taking on the responsibilities , but it meant shelving any dreams I 'd had . ’ |
| 21 | Immigration to Britain , a country of net emigration ( which means that more people emigrate from it than immigrate to it ) did not in itself throw up social problems but it served to highlight social deprivation . |
| 22 | The paper was relaunched in a new format as the Sun , but it failed to win up-market readers , while the old loyalists were put off . |
| 23 | An extra 10 hp a side may not be a mind-blowing power increase but it does represent 330,000 foot lbs per minute and , at its increased maximum weight of 3800 lbs , the new model would , with one engine out , climb at 180 ft/min , or almost 300 ft/min at lighter weights . |
| 24 | It has the characteristic of extremely high strength for its weight , considerably higher than aluminium , but it does create special requirements in the building phase . |
| 25 | It would be foolish to make a strong claim about the salience of the JC STRUT vowel for LE speakers on the strength of limited data like this , but it does appear that for some speakers , this point of difference between LE and JC falls below a " salience threshold " which leads it to be ignored for adaptation purposes , while for other speakers it is salient enough to be adapted , but not consistently . |
| 26 | But it does make perfect sense in context . |
| 27 | But it does make clear a belief that the divine being reveals or manifests its nature in the world . |
| 28 | But it does shift some people 's choices quite sharply in the direction of lower total cost or lower APR . |
| 29 | This is not , of course , a route of any substantial technical difficulty , but it does present many would-be suitors with severe altitude problems , ranging from headaches to full-scale nausea , and some people thought the idea of taking the girl to altitude was an unjustifiable kind of medical experiment . |
| 30 | But it does urge all who are responsible for ordering the worship of parish churches to be sensitive to the variety of people who constitute our congregations . |