Example sentences of "but it [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The articles of agreement stipulated that gold was the official numeraire in terms of which each currency 's exchange value was to be pegged , but it became common practice for countries to adopt a par value for their currencies expressed in terms of the dollar . |
| 32 | The Committee even considered the possibility that the occupant of the Chair be given a cut-off button or that other devices be employed to override demonstrations or disturbance in the galleries or on the floor of the House , but it rejected such innovations . |
| 33 | Political anti-semitism attracted mass support for the BUF in a limited geographical area , but it engendered greater hostility within those same localities and had appalling consequences elsewhere . |
| 34 | Their evidence was a bit messy , but it breathed new life into the debate . |
| 35 | Camberwell did not have a major industry that distinguished it from other London districts , but it offered sufficient variety of employment to engage a majority of the workforce ; other breadwinners did not have to go far to reach central London . |
| 36 | Duales System Deutschland ( DSD ) , the organization set up by industry to comply with a law requiring manufacturers to recycle packaging , has succeeded in dealing with paper , aliminium and glass , but it collected four times more plastic rubbish than it could cope with . |
| 37 | And he said er ten pound were n't it , but it made four joints , yeah |
| 38 | But it made awful mess . |
| 39 | So when Fleischmann and Pons announced test-tube fusion as a source of energy — which was the ‘ angle ’ that the media took up and portrayed it as a clean source — the news that they apparently saw tritium as a fusion product was lost on most media , but it made many scientists concerned and others excited . |
| 40 | It may have rained for hours , but it made little difference to the River Lambourn . |
| 41 | The first meeting of the Institution of Civil Engineers was held on 2 January 1818 with eight founder members present , but it made slow progress until in 1820 Telford , who never joined the Smeatonians , agreed to become the first president . |
| 42 | The hydrogen supply was shut off within 10 minutes , but it took two hours to put out the blaze . ’ |
| 43 | But it took 10 minutes to haul her out and attempts to revive her failed . |
| 44 | ‘ It would have taken nine months to do them by hand , but it took six months this way . |
| 45 | The stripes were hardly noticeable , as the cut was left longer here , but it took slight bumps in the ground in its stride , and cut well up to edges . |
| 46 | At Lord 's , Fowler and Lloyd and Gower again made some runs , but it took thirty Extras to help their total to 196 . |
| 47 | But it took many years for the ordinary people of the area to benefit from tourism in any worthwhile economic sense . |
| 48 | But it took 5 months to find them accomodation after she was told to … |
| 49 | A wizened butler opened the door to Topaz , but it took five minutes of heated argument before she was allowed to step over the threshold of Stone Towers . |
| 50 | but it took five years |
| 51 | That 's right , yeah so I eventually managed it , but it took some negotiating . |
| 52 | But it took some while for the tractors to become available in other markets . |
| 53 | And then again I tell you you could use the enema , and that er but er mostly it would you know you would get right again , but it took some doing , not easy . |
| 54 | I knew what I had to do but it took some courage to switch that light on , I can tell you . |
| 55 | It was marvellous that it was all over , but it took some time to sink in , and in any event had no immediate effect on most of us . |
| 56 | Relatively little could be done for the first year or two ; Pitt had a view of the war that stretched over the whole world , but it took some time to prepare the resources to give effect to this vision . |
| 57 | But it took some time before any clear view emerged as to what these new arrangements should be . |
| 58 | But it took some time for our achievement to sink in . |
| 59 | But it took some time for our achievement to sink in . |
| 60 | The incident last weekend happened just a few hundred yards from Bishop Auckland ambulance station , but it took 25 minutes for a vehicle to arrive from Durham City 12 miles away . |