Example sentences of "but it [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't live here , but it seemed the obvious thing to do . ’ |
| 2 | As with most research projects covering unfamiliar ground , it was not clear at the time how this would help the subsequent investigation , but it met the immediate need to record the results in a concise and tidy manner . |
| 3 | This made the task of the prosecutor somewhat easier , but it had the paradoxical effect that a person who distributed such material with a mischievous intention could argue that the recipients of his material were unlikely to be influenced by it , and he was therefore not guilty if his audience were already corrupt , or were members of an anti-racist organisation , or if the publication or spoken words were so contrary to human decency that they would be likely to provoke sympathy for the intended victim rather than hatred of him . |
| 4 | But it had the desired effect of snapping them out of their indecision and galvanising them into action . |
| 5 | He wanted to cheer Constance up but it had the opposite effect . |
| 6 | Derek Cook went close with a looping shot on 70 minutes , then blasted over from eight yards a minute later ; those misses might have demoralised Coleraine but it had the opposite effect . |
| 7 | It was a very sound brick structure and had been built about 1868 but it had the notorious reputation of being called ‘ Lover 's Leap ’ , no doubt due to the fact that several suicide attempts had been made from its high parapet , most of them fatal . |
| 8 | When fasting , for example , was first used by Gandhi as a form of satyāgraha in a dispute between textile mill-owners and labourers in Ahmedabad the intention was to rally the flagging spirit and resolve of the workers , but it had the added effect of forcing the mill owners into negotiation . |
| 9 | It felt like a command , as did so many of Elinor 's remarks — but it had the menacing power of a scientific law . |
| 10 | Not so blatant now , but it meant the same . |
| 11 | That was traumatic enough , but it left the ten-year-old having to get himself up and out to school in the morning . |
| 12 | Another advantage was being near enough to the basecamp to go back for lunch ; not only did it mean we could have a hot drink but it avoided the clammy sensation , which Carole graphically described , of sitting down for lunch when you 're soaked on the outside and soaked on the inside . |
| 13 | It did Thom himself little good but it exacerbated the inarticulate anger of other officers at the pettiness of the regulations in the face of the array of temptations . |
| 14 | It was nothing like the transformation she would undergo in a few years time but it signalled the slow resurrection of her inner spirit . |
| 15 | 1 held the metal box and chopped at him with the side of my hand , but it struck the sharp metal of the gun and I felt the flesh tear as one round fired . |
| 16 | I had often marvelled at it , but it made the present disaster all the more unbearable . |
| 17 | This last provision was included in the enabling legislation to allow for representation of minority religious groups , but it made the triennial elections a running denominational sore and made the Boards particularly sensitive to pressure from minority interests . |
| 18 | But it made the national press because Arthur was up there and there was a bit of shouting and scuffling . |
| 19 | Mind you , the accountant , C.J. Broderick , soon saw what was happening , but it took the best part of a year to re-arrange matters so that the newspaper could save money by hiring me back at $28 per week . |
| 20 | The Shorthorn/Highland first cross has always been popular but it took the concerted efforts of the three Cadzow brothers on an island off the west coast of Scotland to consolidate the virtues of the cross and turn it into a genuine breed , the Luing , named after the island of its origin . |
| 21 | The fragmentation and inequities of prewar arrangements were highlighted in 1937 by an influential report from the Department of Political and Economic Planning but it took the Second World War and the Beveridge Report of 1942 to change perceptions sufficiently to legitimise a greatly enhanced role for the state in the provision of health care . |
| 22 | I had been aware , intellectually , that the background level of irradiation is really quite high ( as I write the clicking of a geiger counter left switched on in an adjacent room reminds me ) but it took the Phywe cloud chamber to make me realise that irradiation is not a separate thing but truly a part of life . |
| 23 | In fact , mahogany had been known in England since Sir Walter Raleigh 's day but it took the French ban for it to become popular . |
| 24 | But it kept the Salvadorean government 's free-market economic model intact . |
| 25 | The White House may have all the computer wizardry in the world , but it lacked the old-fashioned political skills required to get a $16 billion ‘ stimulus ’ package through the Senate . |
| 26 | The Tchaikovsky was decently played but it lacked the passionate intensity that the score asks for , if not demands . |
| 27 | The exercise shaved off $4bn from the 1990 target , but it raised the 1989 deficit by an equal amount . |
| 28 | But it laid the worst crimes at the door of the army , and recommended the dismissal of 40 serving officers . |
| 29 | It might have been a tail light going the other way but it stayed the same size . |
| 30 | Likewise , our earlier analysis of the roots of Whiggery make it possible to appreciate why a Court Whig position developed after the Glorious Revolution ; there always existed such a potential for such a development , but it required the right political circumstances to enable it to come to fruition . |