Example sentences of "but it [vb -s] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It assumes no previous security experience , but it assumes a familiarity with the PC , with DOS and with the elements of LANs . |
| 2 | But it assumes a dichotomy between nature and supernature that oversimplifies the theologies of the past . |
| 3 | Again , this design gives it only vague impressions of light and shade , but it allows the ostracod to collect a phenomenal amount of the illumination available in its dimly lit environment . |
| 4 | The distinction works only in part , at least so far as social work is concerned , but it allows the author to develop and use as a thread through the discussion , the historically gendered nature of the division between the so-called caring professions and professions such as medicine , law , and architecture . |
| 5 | This is very low , and would never be used in practice , but it allows an example to be shown in a compact diagram . |
| 6 | ‘ But it takes a bit of time to get used to other players and the way of things . |
| 7 | But it takes a bit quicker , yeah , yeah . |
| 8 | Your sweet , milk-sop charms may be attracting him now , but it takes a woman to hold him . |
| 9 | ‘ Your sweet , milk-sop charms may be attracting him now , ’ she 'd said , ‘ but it takes a woman to hold him . |
| 10 | But it takes a lot to ruffle an XJ6 . |
| 11 | I 'd only gone say two weeks without it , but it takes a lot longer than that to actually sort yourself out , anyway … . |
| 12 | But it takes a lot longer than a year to get rid of a bad reputation . |
| 13 | So it goes south to Gath , but it takes the plague with it , together with an unearthly confusion and terror . |
| 14 | These are quickly broken down , but it takes the body longer to shed fatty tissue , so weight loss slows down . |
| 15 | But it takes the eye of an honest man to see it . ’ |
| 16 | Critchley 's party-piece has the rounded phrasing , the well-turned punchline of frequent rehearsal ( it 's claimed that some of his fans can recite it back to him ) , but it captures the tone of the Tories in those days perfectly . |
| 17 | J : It 's alright , but it sounds a bit dated to me . |
| 18 | But it sounds a bit better . |
| 19 | But it sounds a lot more exciting than it is . |
| 20 | But it represents a compromise between opposing or contradictory interests not untypical of media policy . |
| 21 | But it represents a way of doing it which is not what the members of this Committee , of all three parties I suspect , want to do . |
| 22 | This may seem paradoxical , but it represents a gesture of adaptation . |
| 23 | That the Assembly was sovereign over the Council is true enough as a generalization , but it represents the conclusion of most modern interpretation , rather than the ancient theory . |
| 24 | He was only clear about the classification as he worked through the foundations of his pragmatism and metaphysics in the 1890s , but it represents the systematization of a set of views that he had been groping towards since the 1860s . |
| 25 | It may not be the philosophy of a bright , new dawn , but it fills the bill when the task is to pit a bargain-basement outfit against a multi-million-pound juggernaut , and it served MacDonald well on Saturday . |
| 26 | The Acousticube might be small but it sports a heck of a lot of knobs and sockets . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't think I did anything wrong on Wednesday night and I was quite pleased with my own performance , but it falls a bit flat because we were beaten . |
| 28 | But it offers a pastiche of international leisure cultures — the Caribbean beach , the Norwegian chalet . |
| 29 | A cooling-off period does not guarantee success , but it offers a degree of public protection which at present is entirely lacking . |
| 30 | This attempt to be influenced by the maximum of factual knowledge is in a sense a rational way of trying to answer ethical questions ( this being perhaps the Stevensonian answer to the second question raised in the introduction ) , but it offers no guarantee of congruence . |