Example sentences of "but it [vb past] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it emphasised the point that the capacity to signal and the capacity to learn combine to make animal communication increasingly rich and complicated . |
| 2 | It did not have for him the magnetic feel of the two letters which were folded into his pocket , but it represented the tease of curiosity . |
| 3 | The collapse was not directly linked to the motor car side , but it threatened the cars ' future . |
| 4 | But it seemed the educators in question had simply failed to understand the structural rules of nonstandard grammars , and as linguists success-fully argued , their claims were meaningless . |
| 5 | She had expected to return home with full payment for the shoes she 'd made , but it seemed the theatre people were not too quick in settling bills , a practice they shared with the gentry . |
| 6 | Riven received many odd looks , and was the subject of much behind-hand whispering , but it seemed the result of awe more than anything else . |
| 7 | But it seemed the doctor could persuade Sarah to do anything , for it did n't take much argument to convince her that it was wrong to be ungracious . |
| 8 | Some people complained that the realistic sobbing of the Beast , slumped on the ground at the ballet 's opening and again when Beauty hurls the rose back at him , was out of place in a ballet , but it conveyed the point without needing any artificial mime — something he always tried to get away from , wanting anyone to be able to understand his work without needing to learn the conventions first . |
| 9 | The Kingman model of language was greeted with anger by some teachers who looked back nostalgically to the 1960s , but it paved the way for a more judicious approach to the teaching of English . |
| 10 | It was not quite what she envisaged for herself but it had the advantage of being cheap and it went some way towards satisfying Grace , who was convinced that London was a den of iniquity waiting to swallow up her unsuspecting daughter . |
| 11 | Derain 's Baigneuses is in many ways closer in spirit to the Demoiselles , and it was regarded by Vauxcelles at least , as a revolutionary work , but it had the advantage that it could still be fitted into a traditional frame of reference . |
| 12 | He wore a sword , but it had the light , ceremonious quality of a court decoration rather than a weapon for use in earnest . |
| 13 | But it had the presumption to concern myself . |
| 14 | It was couched in the form of a joke , or at least of banter , but it had the directness that he knew many women responded to . |
| 15 | It nearly caused a diplomatic incident but it had the effect of making the magistrate agree that the recording should go to London . |
| 16 | Mr Christopher 's speech had been planned well in advance but it had the effect of underscoring US support for the Russian president as he battled with hardliners in parliament . |
| 17 | Both sides had saved face with this compromise , but it meant the clear-up would not keep pace with dumping and the work was unlikely to ever be completed . |
| 18 | It had a pre-defined space — Waimea Bay — but it left the time open . |
| 19 | When it came closer I jumped out of the way but it cut the bottom of my trousers . |
| 20 | Tokyo rose above 21,000 for the first time since March last year , but it finished the week only 0.1% up . |
| 21 | But it hurt the candidate : whatever they say publicly , Tory officials acknowledge privately that Taylor received ‘ a substantial amount ’ of racist hate mail . |
| 22 | But it suited the generations of North Sea fishermen who had used it — perhaps from the time of their Viking ancestors . |
| 23 | It was a strange misdemeanour but it launched The Doc on a career of unparalleled misbehaviour , which included regular confrontations with the footballing authorities and inevitable conflict with the law . |
| 24 | Officials stressed that this did not signal an abandonment of President François Mitterrand 's 1988 presidential campaign policy of favouring " neither privatization nor nationalization " [ see also pp. 35978-79 ] , but it indicated the difficulties of state companies in raising capital and the pressure on the national budget [ see p. 38113 ] . |
| 25 | But it looked the kind of place that would be silent if diggers full of desperate nomes were n't thundering across it . |
| 26 | At the time , the Board was primarily concerned with accounting standard-setting for business organizations , but it saw the need to involve itself with non-business organizations as well and this research study was its first move in that direction . |
| 27 | Its appeal was , however , beyond this group , but it offered the prioritisation of authority , patriotism and family values . |
| 28 | This dispute was the only major internal wrangle between Law 's election and the war , but it illustrated the fragility of his achievement as a flash of lightning illuminates a landscape . |
| 29 | This seemed like the hovercraft 's end , but it spawned the technology that made the AP1-88 possible . |
| 30 | He stopped speaking for a moment , like a man walking who comes to a brink ; perhaps it was an artful pause , but it made the stars , the night , seem to wait , as if story , narration , history , lay imbricated in the nature of things ; and the cosmos was for the story , not the story for the cosmos . |