Example sentences of "but it [verb] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more of these properties a dummy possessed the more strongly it was mobbed , but it seemed to make little difference whether the object was a stuffed owl with real plumage or an owl-shaped piece of painted wood . |
| 2 | But it had done that before . |
| 3 | It had taken them only a short time to realise they were from opposite sides in the Therapeutic Wars , but it had caused little friction . |
| 4 | It had never been fully constituted or trained as a squadron , but it had achieved most creditable results nonetheless , with over 100 victories plus many more probables and damaged . |
| 5 | She had wanted everything nice and new for Debbie , but it had taken all their remaining savings . |
| 6 | They had meant it kindly , she knew , but it had hurt all the same . |
| 7 | Not that I regretted taking on the responsibilities , but it meant shelving any dreams I 'd had . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But it does shift some people 's choices quite sharply in the direction of lower total cost or lower APR . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But it does mean some real self-criticism . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But it does add some reliability to them . |
| 17 | The final option , fitting your own hard disk , is definitely the cheapest but it does need some skill with a screw driver . |
| 18 | Giving up is not usually the American way , but it does have some attractions . |
| 19 | It is very good for creativity but it does have some other problems . |
| 20 | It is not a particularly good book and Niki despises it , but it does have some home truths in it . |
| 21 | Academically , this test is not very accurate but it does have some value as a rough comparative test between different materials . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | And finally — Editor Steve Windsor is not widely known for his psychic powers , but it does seem some of his predictions come true . |
| 27 | This may take a little longer than leaping straight up , but it does put less strain on the entire body . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | No it does n't solve all their problems , but it does provide some extras and for the vast majority of disabled people , it 's much appreciated . |
| 30 | Ryan 's proposal for a program for automatic story generation which fulfils her three criteria of creativity , aesthetic awareness and understanding will probably remain beyond the boundaries of feasibility for a long time , but it does demonstrate both the need for a greater contribution of ideas from poetics and narratology to developments in artificial intelligence , and the insights that can be gained from the attempt to shape one 's ideas about narrative into a form that can be learnt and applied by computers . |