Example sentences of "but it [vb past] [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 | MY HUSBAND bought me a watch as a birthday present , but it kept losing time and I returned it after the holidays . |
| 13 | This agreement offered management some discretion in relating wages to individual ability but it aimed to guarantee labour a basic income that would rise with age and family subsistence needs . |
| 14 | It was an ever increasing thing that blew up because it got a little too big , but it did make David a star and he has dealt with it really well , and is a man who does wonderful work . |
| 15 | Skyways , set in and around an international airport , may well have been ‘ pretty dreadful ’ but it did bring Kylie into contact with a promising young actor who years later was to take centre stage in her life . |
| 16 | Which you might have already had actually , but it did say insert three . |
| 17 | The ash-fall from a typical Vesuvian eruption rarely causes casualties , but it did cause problems during the most recent eruption in 1944 , when Allied airfields in the Naples area were carpeted with ash , making the runways temporarily unusable , and gritty particles found their way into the air intakes of aircraft flying in the area . |
| 18 | Big Flame did n't have permanent leaders , but it did have superstars . |
| 19 | One did not use the word cocky of such as Paul Lane , but it did cross Coffin 's mind , if in no unfriendly spirit . |
| 20 | But it pursued accommodating policies at first and did not deflate until 1964 . |
| 21 | Dei Verbum 12 may seem very elementary today , but it gave needed encouragement to long-suffering Catholic exegetes . |
| 22 | Franco 's project stopped short of a royal palace or royal tombs , but it attempted to emulate El Escorial in virtually everything else , including its monastery , its panoramic vista towards Madrid , across the plain at the foot of the Sierra de Guadarrama , the bellic nature of its origin24 and the massive scale of its construction . |