Example sentences of "but it [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it produced critical evidence about how different designs of tax would hit marginal seats and heartland Tory ones . |
| 2 | It was nothing really radical in terms of modern design — even apart from Malcolm having adapted it from a picture — but it had great presence . |
| 3 | But it had great difficulty in finding the necessary funds for this purpose , and , partly for this reason and partly because of sheer bureaucratic inefficiency , the payment of the subsidies was always much delayed . |
| 4 | The house had not the vistas or the parkland of Auckland Castle , and its chapel could hardly compete with the chapel at Auckland , but it had good walks along the Ouse . |
| 5 | Designed for office dictation use , this machine followed Edison 's preferred method of using electricity for the motor , but it had acoustic recording and reproduction . |
| 6 | that no other government was fitted to the war effort , but it had significant undertones : coalition was especially useful in providing the party with allies more able to secure the cooperation of the working class . |
| 7 | But it had obvious difficulties for many students who found they could not manage both love affairs and study . |
| 8 | His goal was a gem for the Seagulls — but it left United manager Alex Ferguson fuming : ‘ There was a slackness right through our side — only Danny Wallace played as though he meant it . ’ |
| 9 | That was all very well , but it left big questions of detail in how the mixed economy was to be run . |
| 10 | The Second World War added no territory to the Empire , but it left British troops in occupation of the Italian empire in Africa , and the Dutch and French empires in the Far East . |
| 11 | This was not a new idea , but it attracted increasing support from the 1880s , due partly to the failure of alternative solutions to unemployment and to the apparent unlikelihood of more work being generated in the towns . |
| 12 | But it attracted anti-war campaigners who say the book is trying to sanitise the real cost of the war ; thousands of lives lost . |
| 13 | It enrolled less than 50 members but it attracted active support from up to 2,000 sympathizers . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Their evidence was a bit messy , but it breathed new life into the debate . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But it made awful mess . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The first truly indigenous press was almost certainly that of Egypt , which began to appear during the nineteenth century ; but it predated black Africa 's press by only a few years . |
| 21 | But it suffered severe smoke damage last night after its frying range caught light . |
| 22 | This too could not compel the defendant , condemned to restore , to do so , but it applied conspicuous Pressure : if he did so , well and good ; if not , the plaintiff was allowed to make his own valuation of the property , and it was this which would become the damages awarded by the judge . |
| 23 | The competition was fished on the River Glem which looked uninviting , running gin clear and low , but it provided excellent match for the hard working delegates . |
| 24 | But it gained international recognition . |
| 25 | The church was not in permanent use and had no resident vicar but it held occasional services and now at Christmas an elderly cleric in retirement had volunteered to conduct a sung Eucharist at nine-thirty with the help of a volunteer choir assembled from the Women 's Institute . |
| 26 | ‘ Some people tend to think it 's some faraway problem that will never come to anything , but it destroyed human decency before and it can again if we do n't stand up to it . |
| 27 | It also printed the term as ‘ war ’ rather than war , but it gave close observers a full and accurate description of the weapons on both sides . |
| 28 | Today this chapter may seem almost too anodyne to be significant , but it gave much-needed relief and encouragement to Catholic New Testament scholars ( see Fitzmyer , 1982 , pp. 97–142 ) . |
| 29 | This was always an unofficial research body , but it employed full-time staff , was housed at Central Office , and used the full machinery of party publicity to make itself known . |
| 30 | Medical involvement was mainly in the background , but it included expert knowledge of abnormal neuromuscular function and its alleviation . |