Example sentences of "but it [vb past] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This addition to the maps made them more useful , especially for agricultural purposes , but it entailed resurveying ground already covered and slowed the progress of subsequent work . |
| 2 | Labour protest in the cities might pose no immediate security risk but it had gathered pace ominously throughout the 1870s . |
| 3 | The aim of the programme had been to divide the big farms into smaller plots and to redistribute the land to the workers , but it had bred uncertainty among landowners and entrepreneurs many of whom , unwilling to part with their property , had delayed investment . |
| 4 | The first glass works in south Yorkshire had been erected in 1632 at Glasshouse Green , Wentworth , on the estate of Sir Thomas Wentworth , the great Earl of Strafford , but it had ceased production before the Civil War . |
| 5 | Our report on this matter was sent to the presbyteries under the act , but it failed to win acceptance . |
| 6 | MY HUSBAND bought me a watch as a birthday present , but it kept losing time and I returned it after the holidays . |
| 7 | This agreement offered management some discretion in relating wages to individual ability but it aimed to guarantee labour a basic income that would rise with age and family subsistence needs . |
| 8 | Which you might have already had actually , but it did say insert three . |
| 9 | One did not use the word cocky of such as Paul Lane , but it did cross Coffin 's mind , if in no unfriendly spirit . |
| 10 | Dei Verbum 12 may seem very elementary today , but it gave needed encouragement to long-suffering Catholic exegetes . |