Example sentences of "but it [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I wo n't , I ca n't understand what it is , but it says general knowledge . |
| 32 | But it made awful mess . |
| 33 | The first meeting of the Institution of Civil Engineers was held on 2 January 1818 with eight founder members present , but it made slow progress until in 1820 Telford , who never joined the Smeatonians , agreed to become the first president . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | The first truly indigenous press was almost certainly that of Egypt , which began to appear during the nineteenth century ; but it predated black Africa 's press by only a few years . |
| 36 | But it ignores social changes like the increase in the numbers of educated women , the decline in domestic help and the development of job and life expectations . |
| 37 | But it creates certain incongruities in his character . ’ |
| 38 | Size provides a cushion to the vicissitudes of markets but it creates other problems . |
| 39 | Brittle Power may be written for American readers ; but it deserves careful perusal everywhere . |
| 40 | ‘ Laughing when you should be crying ca n't be helped but it sends other people the wrong signals , so they may be shocked . ’ |
| 41 | It shows us the power of cumulative selection to generate an almost endless variety of quasi-biological form , but it uses artificial selection , not natural selection . |
| 42 | But it suffered severe smoke damage last night after its frying range caught light . |
| 43 | This too could not compel the defendant , condemned to restore , to do so , but it applied conspicuous Pressure : if he did so , well and good ; if not , the plaintiff was allowed to make his own valuation of the property , and it was this which would become the damages awarded by the judge . |
| 44 | But it requires alkaline water and propagates freely from stem-cuttings . |
| 45 | This approach to viscoelastic theory is reasonably successful in the low modulus regions but it requires considerable modification if the high modulus and rubbery plateau regions are to be described . |
| 46 | It is a much needed long-term approach to widening life chances for people who can all too easily be consigned to standardized services and to cramped , narrow , and stultifying lives — but it requires significant resources . |
| 47 | Banc One sets basic yet strict financial targets for the banks it takes over , but it lets local managers decide how to meet them . |
| 48 | The book is an imaginative outgrowth of practical criticism , but it breaks new ground in its choice of late Augustan poets — Charles Wesley and Samuel Johnson — and ( by a bold leap of association ) Wordsworth , Coleridge and the later Romantics : its chapter on ‘ Shelley 's urbanity ’ , paradoxical in its very title , showing the entry of a commanding new critical voice . |
| 49 | The competition was fished on the River Glem which looked uninviting , running gin clear and low , but it provided excellent match for the hard working delegates . |
| 50 | But it gained international recognition . |
| 51 | Innocence may be the first casualty of war , as the posters for the film boldly quoted , but it seems good taste is the first casualty in computer-game marketing . |
| 52 | Inevitably , the lost that set the buyers alight were the North American and European imports , but it seems mere novelty value can no longer secure the top prices . |
| 53 | So we , the answer is we do n't really know but it seems common sense to apply barrier precautions and to do everything you can to modify the type of surgery so that the chances of having an injury with a sharp instrument are reduced , and people have made some constructive proposals along these lines . |
| 54 | There are final decisions still to be taken over the introduction of the speed controls but it seems likely humps would be in place by September this year . |
| 55 | Orrell are content to keep Wasps guessing but it seems likely Kimmins will play — a line-out challenge for Kinsey , O'Leary and Ryan . |
| 56 | But it includes large parts of the Wear Valley district where the LibDems took spectacular local authority control from Labour in May . |
| 57 | The Treasury is only a small department in terms of the number of civil servants that work there but it has tremendous power as a result of its financial role at the heart of government . |
| 58 | Thus , Irish nationalism is conceived by most members in an abstract way , but it has concrete import for key groups . |
| 59 | But it has real merits , illuminating much that other theories leave obscure . |
| 60 | But it has material consequences for women , does n't it ? |