Example sentences of "but it [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | This can reduce weight but it also constitutes drug-taking , for which you may face a lifetime ban . |
2 | The report emphasises that the parish ministry should be at the heart of the Church of Scotland in remote rural areas as elsewhere but it also expresses concern that this is dependent on adequate financial resources . |
3 | This was done most dramatically and ruthlessly in Latin America , e.g. in Mexico under Juarez in the 1860s or in Bolivia under the dictator Melgarejo ( 1866–71 ) , but it also took place on a large scale in Spain after the revolution of 1854 , in Italy after the unification of the country under the liberal institutions of Piedmont , and wherever else economic and legal liberalism triumphed . |
4 | Eating is obviously a basic need , but it also forms part of the physical rehabilitation process . |
5 | Not only does this action involve hand-eye co-ordination but it also involves information received by the other senses . |
6 | The fact that we give each other little clues , invitations and propositions , gives a transparency to our motives , but it also builds excitement and suspense about the actual unveiling of each coming together . |
7 | Blindcraft 's speciality is beds , but it also manufactures bedroom furniture and wire products such as reinforcing panels for underground roadways in coalmines and shelving for fridges and freezers . |
8 | It has come to expect the steady increase in the standard of living that new developments in science and technology have brought to continue , but it also distrusts science because it does n't understand it . |
9 | ‘ As the Sun now recognises , the publication did cause personal offence to the Queen but it also caused offence amongst those who prefer to hear or see Her Majesty 's Christmas Message for the first time on Christmas Day . ’ |
10 | This model enables the computer specialist to design appropriate computer systems for the organisation , but it also provides management with a unique tool for perceiving the business process . |
11 | Its main priority is ‘ to make land available for house building in the private sector , but it also provides land for a wide range of commercial development ’ |
12 | But it also triggered outrage in Europe that there would be no British decision for another year . |
13 | It needs vision to foresee what the finished product will look like , but it also needs skill , to set the process in motion and maintain it with economy of effort . |
14 | But it also strained credulity to believe that any sort of war where any sort of nuclear weapons were available would not eventually lead to full-scale atomic destruction . |
15 | The IFC borrows most of its funds from the World Bank but it also raises money from private capital markets . |
16 | But it also highlighted DSC 's moderate profitability , limited financial flexibility and the presence of significant competition . |
17 | In my paper , it is shown that the electron in lowest energy or ground state of the hydrogen atom indeed does continually radiate its energy away as predicted by classical theory , but it also absorbs energy from the ever-present sea of zero-point energy in which the atom is immersed , and an assumed equilibrium between these two processes leads to the correct values for the parameters known to define the ground-state orbit . |
18 | But it also draws attention to another gap in the history of Keynesianism . |
19 | His reaction puzzles Banquo , but Macbeth explains it to us in an aside : The word ‘ swelling ’ is sometimes glossed by comparison with a stage thronged with people , but it also suggests pregnancy , and we may recall Angelo 's sense of ‘ the strong and swelling evil/Of my conception ’ . |
20 | This confirms Hanson 's reputation for being able to spot cheap assets and sell off unwanted parts profitably , but it also gives rise to the charge that Hanson is involved in asset stripping . |
21 | Home means family … and time to relax with his three and a half month old son Alexander … but it also means time to reflect on the disappointments . |
22 | How far should Nonconformity work to avoid the type of praise given by the Bishop of Ripon in his 1892 article on Spurgeon : ‘ The Puritan type may mean heedlessness of culture and loss of sweetness and light , but it also means seriousness , earnestness and a courageous bearing . ’ |
23 | Nevertheless their rebellion is paradoxical — it may mean a baby and a home and an income , but it also means exile from the culture of their own generation and the political resources available to the employed , respectable working class and its representatives . |
24 | Being vulnerable implies a risk , but it also implies trust . |
25 | Not only is measles a killer , but it also causes blindness , deafness and mental handicap in thousands of children every year . |
26 | But it also has relevance to the pro-active marketing of credit and , to my mind , nicely illustrates the crossroads the industry has reached and the opportunities that lie beyond it . |
27 | On the DEC PDP-10 computer , subroutine call instructions are provided for saving the return address either in the first location of a subroutine or in an accumulator ; but it also has call and return instructions which treat a specified area of store as a return address stack , in a manner similar to that described earlier in this section . |
28 | 3 But it also makes sense to say that the British constitution is what the authorities say it should be because their views on these matters help to police everyday political practice , pulling it into line with the constitutional theory which they themselves advance as the proper way to conduct politics . |
29 | This assures us that the continued supply is of normal quantities required anyway , but it also makes discontinuation of supply a positive harm rather than a refusal to help . |
30 | The truss rod cover I do n't like particularly ; I ca n't say exactly why , but it just looks alien to the rest of the headstock and does n't fit too well on this example , either . |