Example sentences of "but it [verb] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it takes so much time and you 're leaving tomorrow . |
| 2 | Weaving does take longer than knitting a piece of the same size , but it takes very little longer to weave a long row than a short one , so this can save a considerable amount of time . |
| 3 | This calculation may look cumbersome , but it takes very little time and provides record storage positions very effectively . |
| 4 | It is perhaps understandable why these men , who earn their livelihood in the very embrace of the Goddess of the South Seas , should take her so seriously , but it came as more of a surprise that the Sultan of Surakarta should do the same . |
| 5 | Freedom from the restraining hand of a squire or a parson no doubt encouraged enterprise but it meant that much activity went unrecorded . |
| 6 | But it does so all the same . |
| 7 | It looks rather splendid , but it attracted so much attention that after two days she took it all out . |
| 8 | It was not appropriate for the son to care for her but it became too much for the daughter-in-law , who was admitted to psychiatric hospital with a nervous breakdown , and the problems were referred to the local area social service office . |
| 9 | ‘ We started off doing everything ourselves but it became too much . |
| 10 | I mean , considering there are only about five hundred people in there were just on forty people present in the room which is quite a good average or percentage of them and er a lot of the questions were quite positive and the Chairman sort of took them , there were one or two people there who obviously erm wanted to have everything either exactly as it was or whatever , but it looked very much from the conversation that I had with the ramblers afterwards that in large part this scheme could be accepted . |
| 11 | The cobbled lane boasted a pub , the Bargee , which the rivermen used , but it saw very few customers once the wharf gates clanged shut . |
| 12 | The House of Lords may be the highest court in the land , but it hears comparatively few appeals each year . |
| 13 | Her voice was lovely , but it took away all the life from the words . |
| 14 | But it ate so much procession power that most PCs could n't drive it fast enough , so hardly anyone bought it . |
| 15 | Nobody ever knew why , but it whiled away many a long afternoon . |
| 16 | A Congress of People 's Deputies was elected from the whole country , but it contained too many deputies to be an effective parliamentary assembly . |
| 17 | But it put too much pressure on the relationship , and when it finished I realised that he 'd resented what I had done . |
| 18 | Over in Italy , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA is less directly affected by the abrupt change in status of all things IBM — it only markets Hitachi 's plug-compatible mainframes , but it has so many other problems that that is little compensation . |
| 19 | Our Sun ‘ loses ’ 4 million tons of mass this way every second — but it has so much mass to play with that this rate of mass loss would only add up to 7 per cent of the total after about a trillion ( million million ) years . |
| 20 | But it has so much scope to go further . |
| 21 | Its body is clearly segmented but it has very many fewer divisions than the millipede . |
| 22 | But it has comparatively little to do with his holistic claim that individuals are merely the ‘ supports ’ or ‘ bearers ’ of social practices . |
| 23 | The I saw an advert for the machine I wanted , with the software I wanted , but it cost too much . |
| 24 | But it transpired eventually that was n't the only reason . |
| 25 | But it places so little emphasis on resistance to the dominant culture , that it either becomes a sort of ‘ toothless liberalism ’ ( Segal 1987 : 24 ) , or ignores politics completely . |
| 26 | But it started again this evening . |
| 27 | The usual answer is ‘ I would love to go by train , but it costs too much ’ . |
| 28 | The French Revolution was intended to remedy the natural order , but it changed very little . |