Example sentences of "but it [verb] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That looks incompatible with gaucherie , and perhaps is , but it represents no more than the incompatibilities that individuals daily enact in their own lives . |
| 2 | I did try on a couple of occasions to wind the engine up past the 5000rpm mark , where the torque curve begins to fall away rapidly , but it produced no more performance than was available by driving the car sensibly for economy . |
| 3 | Not so blatant now , but it meant the same . |
| 4 | to the front but it stays the same . |
| 5 | Volvo 's two-litre B200 engine had always been smoother than the bigger-bore 2.3 , but it made no more than an adequate job of hauling the corpulent 940 . |
| 6 | It might have been a tail light going the other way but it stayed the same size . |
| 7 | This is not the most familiar approach to quantum theory , but it gives the same results as other methods . |
| 8 | The sun was shining at two thousand feet , but it did no more than lacquer the fog . |
| 9 | Not only does it draw from what Pollitt ( 1986a , p. 159 ) describes as the ‘ belief-system of the incoming Conservative government of 1979 ’ — the crusade against bureaucratic waste , belief in the superiority of private sector managerial techniques and drive towards increased value for money — but it shares the same ideological roots as privatization and contracting out . |
| 10 | But it makes no such specific point about assessed needs . |
| 11 | But it explained a few things — the kindness I 'd thought I 'd detected , his seemingly unreasonable act of firing me … |
| 12 | It is less ritualized than it was a hundred years ago , but it serves the same purpose of recognizing the event . |
| 13 | The liquid is now officially called beer but it needs a few days further conditioning in the brewery , to purge some of the rough alcohols , before it is ready to leave for the pub . |
| 14 | Since this shot occurs in two different scenes , maybe he tried it both ways , but it looks the same in each , tough repeated inspection fails to disclose conclusively which of the two possibilities it actually is . |
| 15 | But it works the same way as ordinary language . |