Example sentences of "but [pron] does [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Katharine wo n't actually be making any speeches on his behalf but she does have some tips for the Prime Minister . |
| 2 | The Commissioner is not there to canvass for work , but she does consider that publicity is a valid function of her office . |
| 3 | ( Not that I 'm anti-Wilko , but he does make some strange decisions ) . |
| 4 | But he does do that does n't he ? |
| 5 | Jean-Claude Kausmann does n't get involved in laundering in his own home — but he does do all the shopping and cooking . |
| 6 | Decade-long plans for the museum 's controversial and costly expansion program are on hold , Ross says , until better economic times , but he does expect any enlarged Whitney to remain on its current Madison Avenue site . |
| 7 | But he does admit that being seen as attractive has advantages . |
| 8 | I think he 's expecting a glorified vacation with a lot of scuba diving and board-sailing , but he does understand that a cruise-cure means giving up drugs . |
| 9 | He is very good , Mr , and he has been a county councillor in I think Staffordshire , before the days of pindown I have to er , hasten to add , but he does know both sides of the er , street as it were . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But it does shift some people 's choices quite sharply in the direction of lower total cost or lower APR . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But it does mean that , faced with options ranging from what is merely arguably right to what the auditors believe to be best , their critics are convinced that auditors will in practice settle for the arguably right if that is what the directors prefer . |
| 15 | But it does mean some real self-criticism . |
| 16 | Montrose House would of course not be the only cost-effective alternative but it does give some idea of the scandalous waste of resources which is still going on in the semi-State sector . |
| 17 | Okay it 's only a small pipe , it 's got a high resistance , it does n't let much through , but it does let some more through . |
| 18 | But it does add some reliability to them . |
| 19 | The final option , fitting your own hard disk , is definitely the cheapest but it does need some skill with a screw driver . |
| 20 | Giving up is not usually the American way , but it does have some attractions . |
| 21 | It is very good for creativity but it does have some other problems . |
| 22 | It is not a particularly good book and Niki despises it , but it does have some home truths in it . |
| 23 | Academically , this test is not very accurate but it does have some value as a rough comparative test between different materials . |
| 24 | It was just a quickie , I just wanted to read this little point that I actually think brings lots of what you 've been discussing about together , and it 's a light hearted , but it does have some relevance if I can just say it . |
| 25 | That the project schools provide potential examples of good practice is also clear , but it does seem that potential here is yet to be realized . |
| 26 | This is not to say , of course , that there is no relationship at all between reading and spelling : but it does seem that teaching phonics may not necessarily have much effect on spelling ability . |
| 27 | It is of course difficult to measure such a discrepancy objectively , but it does seem that , for instance , some of the so-called' irreversible binomials ' such as fish and chips are less opaque than , say , blackbird , even though both contain only full semantic indicators . |
| 28 | And finally — Editor Steve Windsor is not widely known for his psychic powers , but it does seem some of his predictions come true . |
| 29 | This may take a little longer than leaping straight up , but it does put less strain on the entire body . |
| 30 | It does not explain all the peculiar initial conditions of the big bang ; but it does provide some rationale for conditions that otherwise have to be accepted as given . |