Example sentences of "but it [verb] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But it took many years for the ordinary people of the area to benefit from tourism in any worthwhile economic sense . |
| 4 | They were mostly wrong , but it took several years to find out . |
| 5 | I mean I I had the guitar stuff done within an hour but it getting all vocals over-dubbed and doubling everything up and then , it took forever to mix it together . |
| 6 | To a large degree this was centred , although not confined , to the newer , suburban churches , but it affected all aspects of Nonconformist church-life . |
| 7 | In many ways the movement was a distant bogey but it worried many landowners whose rent rolls were hit by the heavy load of poor rates , now a quarterly impost almost everywhere . |
| 8 | But it seems some employers are seeing the potential . |
| 9 | The favourite buys overall , appear to be fashion items and electrcial goods , but it seems some shoppers will buy anything if it 's on a shelf . |
| 10 | I 'd have hoped the England team would have been selected on quality and experience but it seems those qualities are not important any more |
| 11 | ‘ I would have hoped teams were selected on quality and experience but it seems those qualities are not important any more . |
| 12 | It is largely derivative , but it contains some stories written from his own experience and that of his personal acquaintances , including an account of his family and its devotion to St Stephen 's church , Launceston . |
| 13 | The end point of return to work is something that can be measured , but it has many difficulties , particularly where there is significant unemployment . |
| 14 | This view may be initially attractive , but it has many difficulties ( Gale , 1968 ) . |
| 15 | But it has many advantages over other holographic transform methods . |
| 16 | But it has few powers if they refuse . |
| 17 | Historical biography may be hard to write , but it draws more readers to history than any other genre . |
| 18 | ‘ But it raises fewer objections than the first theory , that he came in half-naked and armed with a razor and yet there are no obvious signs that Berowne put up any resistance . ’ |