Example sentences of "but [adv] it [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But perhaps it reveals more of the inherent uncertainty of experimental research than the tidiness which precedes it . |
| 2 | The report of this inquiry found that some ill-treatment of patients had indeed taken place but also it found much to criticize in general : lax standards of nursing , inadequate medical care , poor conditions and bad management . |
| 3 | But now it seemed this Adam Burns was determined to dredge up her other life all over again . |
| 4 | But now it stretched all the way down her back and Claire was making it shine like black oil . |
| 5 | Manchester at first lost out very badly on rail investment , but now it has some compensation in the Windsor Link and is going ahead with an advanced tram system that will take over a number of heavy rail routes . |
| 6 | But there it encountered another ruined project , a work to be called The Drunks of which only a tiny fragment survives , and the marriage of these two constitutes the success of Crime and Punishment . |
| 7 | prune with spring , but , then , once the flowering that green one needs cutting back , but again it needs all the old wood taking out and the new wood in . |
| 8 | But otherwise it had all the ingredients of the detective novel , down to a theme , the passion for justice . |
| 9 | It may of course be used in other applications requiring high levels of compression , possibly using conventional hard discs or other magnetic media , but currently it remains most significant in relation to CD-ROM systems . |