Example sentences of "but [adv] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a while it proved a highly successful combination , but eventually it became apparent that the Japanese spirit could not compensate for inferiority in industrial strength and natural resources in dispelling any sense of national insecurity . |
| 2 | I perfected the technique of entering my bedsit without anyone hearing me or noticing me , but eventually it became impossible to stay there ad infinitum without paying my rent , so I took all my military kit and some clothes and set myself up in the changing room at the barracks . |
| 3 | ‘ I spotted the old Humber while I was on duty and at first thought it would take me a couple of years to restore — but eventually it took seven ! |
| 4 | It took all of his strength to free the buckled doorway , but eventually it broke free with a protesting groan . |
| 5 | The suggestion of Trotter ( 1949 ) that the whole of the South Wales coalfield was underlain by a regional thrust plane , probably represented at surface by the Careg Cennen disturbance , was scornfully rejected by O. T. Jones and others in one of the Geological Society 's historic controversies , but perhaps it deserves critical reconsideration in the light of recent ideas about deep crustal detachment zones . |
| 6 | But perhaps it reveals more of the inherent uncertainty of experimental research than the tidiness which precedes it . |
| 7 | It seemed at first sight to be a chaos of struggling men and horses , a wild mêlée ; but soon it became apparent to the newcomers that it was in fact more like a whirlpool of activity , with the ambushed English , above whom the royal standard wavered uncertainly , in the centre , whilst their more numerous attackers circled round them , smiting and thrusting but apparently making only moderate impact . |
| 8 | At first she tried not to stare at him , knowing how the feeling of someone looking over her own shoulder made her clumsy , but soon it became clear that he was no longer aware of her at all . |
| 9 | She leaned out of it , welcoming the cool rain on her face and neck and shoulders : she twisted up her hair to prevent the inconvenience of its getting soaked , but soon it fell loose and she let the rain stroke it . |
| 10 | It was not calling to him as Pam was , but nevertheless it promised welcome , no pain , peace … |
| 11 | But tonight it felt cold , claustrophobic , down there . |
| 12 | She was n't fond of it as a rule , but tonight it tasted hot and reassuring . |
| 13 | Serving great forces was not what she had signed up for this trip , but somehow it felt right . |
| 14 | But always it seemed impossible that you would ever sit on the polished seat of a flushing lavatory again . |
| 15 | The concert hall capacity is 320 , filled nearly to that figure at weekends or on special occasions but usually it stands empty on weekdays . |
| 16 | But later it became hereditary . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | They still play honest hard rock , but now it sounds fresher and has thousands of hard edges . |
| 19 | But now it seemed terrible that they should be able to talk so naturally while Dr. Lorrimer lay there dead upstairs . |
| 20 | But now it seemed this Adam Burns was determined to dredge up her other life all over again . |
| 21 | In the earlier view a work was regarded as a more or less arbitrarily agglomerated collection of defamiliarizing devices , but now it becomes important to see it as an entity , a structure or a system where it is the system which determines what the function of a given device will be , whether it will be foregrounded or automatized . |
| 22 | But now it stretched all the way down her back and Claire was making it shine like black oil . |
| 23 | Until he reached five degrees he had found that it turned easily , through long use … but now it became stiff and awkward . |
| 24 | For a year I had worked to make this creature , but now it looked terrible and frightening . |
| 25 | It had n't looked an easy distance before , but now it looked impossible . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | This may seem like an impossible demand to make on someone who has smoked 20–60 cigarettes a day , but psychologically it works better for most people than attempting the ‘ slowly does it ’ campaign of a cigarette less every day . |
| 28 | Every time she went out she missed his pleading eyes and thumping tail ; but today it seemed worse than ever , somehow , to set forth quite alone . |
| 29 | But nowadays it tries hard and gracefully to live down the ferocities of its past . |
| 30 | So also can treating the water in ion-exchange systems but sometimes it produces other side effects . ) |