Example sentences of "but it [verb] [det] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it takes little to say , and doubtless contributes to the ‘ feel-good ’ factor all round . |
| 2 | But it does much to dispel the prevailing confusion and , in our opinion , constitutes one of the most important treatments of the subject to date . |
| 3 | Of course , understanding the need for the cuts is one thing , but it does little to mitigate the pain felt by those affected . |
| 4 | Orton 's camp is indeed constituted by playfulness and it acts as a solvent of morality — but it does this to provoke rather than disarm moral indignation . |
| 5 | It was too heavy to turn in the wind , but it mattered little to know which way the wind was blowing : wherever it blew it blew word of the miraculous pageant and the Angel Gabriel . |
| 6 | The heating was on inside the car but it did little to drive out the chill that seemed to have settled in her bones . |
| 7 | Fran jerked her arm away but it did little to loosen the crushing grip of his powerful fingers . |
| 8 | He had been carrying his umbrella but it did little to protect him . |
| 9 | Perhaps it was in deference to her sensibilities that he had slipped on a robe , but it did less to conceal the perfection of his body than to hint tantalisingly at it . |
| 10 | This sliding-scale approach might still have relevance to the Post Office Act , on which that case turned , but it has little to do with obscenity as defined in the 1959 Act . |