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 | Any man can be unfaithful , but it takes special circumstances to write a letter like that . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But it had obvious difficulties for many students who found they could not manage both love affairs and study . |
| 9 | That was all very well , but it left big questions of detail in how the mixed economy was to be run . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But it attracted anti-war campaigners who say the book is trying to sanitise the real cost of the war ; thousands of lives lost . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But it creates certain incongruities in his character . ’ |
| 17 | Size provides a cushion to the vicissitudes of markets but it creates other problems . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Banc One sets basic yet strict financial targets for the banks it takes over , but it lets local managers decide how to meet them . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Orrell are content to keep Wasps guessing but it seems likely Kimmins will play — a line-out challenge for Kinsey , O'Leary and Ryan . |
| 22 | But it includes large parts of the Wear Valley district where the LibDems took spectacular local authority control from Labour in May . |
| 23 | But it has real merits , illuminating much that other theories leave obscure . |
| 24 | But it has material consequences for women , does n't it ? |
| 25 | China is already a big exporter of tungsten but it has major reserves of titanium , tin , copper . |
| 26 | It may be wondered why this doctrine is retained , but it has great advantages for both the major groups involved — the ministers and the civil servants . |
| 27 | Alright it reduces trade in agricultural products , but it has other effects ? |
| 28 | The language it uses seems very familiar , but it has other meanings . |
| 29 | The term ‘ culture ’ could be used in this way in less complex , smaller-scale social systems , but it has other meanings in industrial society and seems inadequate for the task of relating everyday life to historical development . |
| 30 | What else does the superego do , because it certainly does all of that , but it has other functions . |