Example sentences of "but it [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , I would argue , though not all would agree , may tell us something interesting about the way the brain compartmentalizes different aspects of visual processing and it may tell us that subjects are more conservative about admitting to seeing a very degraded image than about trying to move their eyes to it , but it sheds little light on the actual experiences the patients are having when we show them a light . |
| 2 | In many ways the VDU command is similar to a PRINT CHR$ ( num ) command , but it involves less typing and a number of characters may be easily sent . |
| 3 | Granted , Vitor continued to blame her , but it represented some kind of progress . |
| 4 | The bus held about twenty people , but it carried all manner of other things . |
| 5 | But it admits that Adobe technology is often the default standard , and wants to make the technology available within NewsPrint . |
| 6 | This was a return to the test of outrage , with all its faults , but it met little outrage in Standing Committee and fell only because of the dissolution of Parliament for the 1987 General Election . |
| 7 | This might seem onerous but it guarantees that configuration control is maintained and , with some care , should be a very unusual occurrence . |
| 8 | All the leading cars traded places briefly during a flurry of pit-stops but it had little effect on Prost who was able to pull clear and win comfortably . |
| 9 | She screamed , but it had little effect , just added to the confusion that reigned in the room . |
| 10 | All the leading cars traded places briefly during a flurry of pit-stops but it had little effect on Prost who was able to pull clear and win comfortably . |
| 11 | The famous Marx Brothers ' contract scene in A Night at the Opera ( " The party of the first part shall be known in this contract as the party of the first part " ) exaggerated the worst excesses of legal drafting , but it had some basis in fact . |
| 12 | But it had another trick up its sleeves . |
| 13 | We need to understand the position of the Sanhedrin , Jesus is really representing great changes in their tradition great a great revolution really and we know that what he was doing was was sort of getting Christianity to grow out of Judaism , but it meant that Judaism had to move to one side . |
| 14 | down into his arteries and we ca n't get anything down there so they 're blocked , but he said how the hell he survived that op I do n't know he said they could 've done more with his legs but it meant another hour and a quarter minutes in surgery , and he said he 'd had enough we could n't have kept him on the table a minute longer so he said all we can do is wait , so now mum said well he 's alright in intensive care , he 's responding well , getting over the operation well , but what we was worried about was him breathing on his own , had he , had he been you see , anyway he said this on er Thursday |
| 15 | It took her longer than she had thought , but it served another purpose . |
| 16 | Surely a forlorn ambition , but it goes some way to explain , what would otherwise be so difficult to understand , why eminent members of the nascent |
| 17 | It probably means that the average family is a much more relaxed affair than the traditional Scottish household used to be , but it goes some way towards explaining the numbers of children at risk in our society from adults outside the home , as well as from their own undisciplined emotions . |
| 18 | IBM is hoping that the popularity of workflow computing models will drive uptake , but it acknowledges that message queuing is not a new concept ; what is new it says , is the attempt to implement it across multiple manufacturer 's machines . |
| 19 | It could do good but it does more bad |
| 20 | Throughout the first two weeks of the campaign almost twothirds of our panel cited unemployment as the ‘ main issue ’ that should be discussed but it got little coverage on television news . |
| 21 | But it omitted any reference to the dangers of ‘ Leftism ’ , despite the fact that Deng had stressed this , and that it was at the heart of a party politburo statement . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It may have rained for hours , but it made little difference to the River Lambourn . |
| 25 | But it took many years for the ordinary people of the area to benefit from tourism in any worthwhile economic sense . |
| 26 | That 's right , yeah so I eventually managed it , but it took some negotiating . |
| 27 | But it took some while for the tractors to become available in other markets . |
| 28 | And then again I tell you you could use the enema , and that er but er mostly it would you know you would get right again , but it took some doing , not easy . |
| 29 | I knew what I had to do but it took some courage to switch that light on , I can tell you . |
| 30 | It was marvellous that it was all over , but it took some time to sink in , and in any event had no immediate effect on most of us . |