Example sentences of "but it [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has the advantage of relating expenditure to sales , but it discourages innovative approaches to advertising expenditure and does not allow for distinctions to be made between products or sales territories . |
| 2 | Bitez offers exciting day cruising , but it takes two weeks to acclimatise most people to the strong winds ! |
| 3 | Any man can be unfaithful , but it takes special circumstances to write a letter like that . ’ |
| 4 | Probably most such birds possess more powerful navigational skills , such as those we shall discuss shortly for pigeons , but it takes special experiments to demonstrate the fact . |
| 5 | well ha you , what you have is you have erm the ship , first of all you have the ship , it 's a plain ship on a white background , then you have the lights on a black background and then you have that blue bit in the middle but it takes three shots |
| 6 | Linguistic posturing of this sort is the extreme reaction of a character in an extreme situation , but it dramatizes rhetorical manoeuvres available to both men and women who are forced into a position of discursive subservience . |
| 7 | As a course this demands a very full timetable , but it offers strongly-motivated students an opportunity to develop in parallel the intellectual and practical sides of their study of art . |
| 8 | The house had not the vistas or the parkland of Auckland Castle , and its chapel could hardly compete with the chapel at Auckland , but it had good walks along the Ouse . |
| 9 | that no other government was fitted to the war effort , but it had significant undertones : coalition was especially useful in providing the party with allies more able to secure the cooperation of the working class . |
| 10 | But it had obvious difficulties for many students who found they could not manage both love affairs and study . |
| 11 | But it had 22 frets , big frets , and really loud humbuckers and that was why I liked it . |
| 12 | That was all very well , but it left big questions of detail in how the mixed economy was to be run . |
| 13 | The Second World War added no territory to the Empire , but it left British troops in occupation of the Italian empire in Africa , and the Dutch and French empires in the Far East . |
| 14 | Indeed , the Consumers ' Association have a publication entitled Taking your own case to court or tribunal designed to assist the layman wishing to take his own case rather than instruct solicitors ; but it warns potential litigants that to take on a particularly complicated legal action without legal help would be madness . |
| 15 | But it attracted anti-war campaigners who say the book is trying to sanitise the real cost of the war ; thousands of lives lost . |
| 16 | There is no claim that this resolves the differences , but it helps top managers understand where they might focus their efforts in order to improve effectiveness — i.e. it identifies inconsistent schemas . |
| 17 | The Committee even considered the possibility that the occupant of the Chair be given a cut-off button or that other devices be employed to override demonstrations or disturbance in the galleries or on the floor of the House , but it rejected such innovations . |
| 18 | Duales System Deutschland ( DSD ) , the organization set up by industry to comply with a law requiring manufacturers to recycle packaging , has succeeded in dealing with paper , aliminium and glass , but it collected four times more plastic rubbish than it could cope with . |
| 19 | And he said er ten pound were n't it , but it made four joints , yeah |
| 20 | So when Fleischmann and Pons announced test-tube fusion as a source of energy — which was the ‘ angle ’ that the media took up and portrayed it as a clean source — the news that they apparently saw tritium as a fusion product was lost on most media , but it made many scientists concerned and others excited . |
| 21 | The hydrogen supply was shut off within 10 minutes , but it took two hours to put out the blaze . ’ |
| 22 | But it took 10 minutes to haul her out and attempts to revive her failed . |
| 23 | ‘ It would have taken nine months to do them by hand , but it took six months this way . |
| 24 | The stripes were hardly noticeable , as the cut was left longer here , but it took slight bumps in the ground in its stride , and cut well up to edges . |
| 25 | At Lord 's , Fowler and Lloyd and Gower again made some runs , but it took thirty Extras to help their total to 196 . |
| 26 | But it took many years for the ordinary people of the area to benefit from tourism in any worthwhile economic sense . |
| 27 | But it took 5 months to find them accomodation after she was told to … |
| 28 | A wizened butler opened the door to Topaz , but it took five minutes of heated argument before she was allowed to step over the threshold of Stone Towers . |
| 29 | but it took five years |
| 30 | The incident last weekend happened just a few hundred yards from Bishop Auckland ambulance station , but it took 25 minutes for a vehicle to arrive from Durham City 12 miles away . |