Example sentences of "but it [vb -s] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An extra 10 hp a side may not be a mind-blowing power increase but it does represent 330,000 foot lbs per minute and , at its increased maximum weight of 3800 lbs , the new model would , with one engine out , climb at 180 ft/min , or almost 300 ft/min at lighter weights . |
| 2 | It has the characteristic of extremely high strength for its weight , considerably higher than aluminium , but it does create special requirements in the building phase . |
| 3 | It would be foolish to make a strong claim about the salience of the JC STRUT vowel for LE speakers on the strength of limited data like this , but it does appear that for some speakers , this point of difference between LE and JC falls below a " salience threshold " which leads it to be ignored for adaptation purposes , while for other speakers it is salient enough to be adapted , but not consistently . |
| 4 | But it does make perfect sense in context . |
| 5 | But it does make clear a belief that the divine being reveals or manifests its nature in the world . |
| 6 | But it does shift some people 's choices quite sharply in the direction of lower total cost or lower APR . |
| 7 | This is not , of course , a route of any substantial technical difficulty , but it does present many would-be suitors with severe altitude problems , ranging from headaches to full-scale nausea , and some people thought the idea of taking the girl to altitude was an unjustifiable kind of medical experiment . |
| 8 | But it does urge all who are responsible for ordering the worship of parish churches to be sensitive to the variety of people who constitute our congregations . |
| 9 | But it does suggest one reform which , if it went through , would deal with many such doubts . |
| 10 | ‘ But it does speak fluent French and has O-level Maths . |
| 11 | But it does mean that , faced with options ranging from what is merely arguably right to what the auditors believe to be best , their critics are convinced that auditors will in practice settle for the arguably right if that is what the directors prefer . |
| 12 | But it does mean some real self-criticism . |
| 13 | Inevitably a brief account can not do justice to individual writers and exaggerates the extent of agreement within each broad perspective , but it does emphasise central points of similarity and difference . |
| 14 | Montrose House would of course not be the only cost-effective alternative but it does give some idea of the scandalous waste of resources which is still going on in the semi-State sector . |
| 15 | When people think that life will never be the same again , it is a comfort to realise that it may be different , but it does get better . |
| 16 | Even if those figures are reduced by the two million each year that leaves a very large financial mountain to climb in the years ahead and I apologise for beginning with that gloomy prognosis but it does get better , thanks to our proposals . |
| 17 | It is n't easy to be assertive in sexual relationships but it does get easier as you practise . |
| 18 | But it does reveal one minor flaw in the RAF selection process when it comes to reading the character of recruits . |
| 19 | Okay it 's only a small pipe , it 's got a high resistance , it does n't let much through , but it does let some more through . |
| 20 | But it does provoke rebellious , aggressive behaviour in a minority of children , particularly if they have to be taken by force to a quiet room , or the door has to be held to keep them there . |
| 21 | But it does add some reliability to them . |
| 22 | It makes a beautiful 6ft ( T.8m ) shrub , but it does need dry sunny weather to get the blooms to open . |
| 23 | The final option , fitting your own hard disk , is definitely the cheapest but it does need some skill with a screw driver . |
| 24 | The theory of the traumatic beginnings of human culture which I have just summarized seems to explain much about both the ego and society , but it does have one very obvious weakness . |
| 25 | But it does have one big thing going for it . |
| 26 | But it does have seven times the number of homicides . |
| 27 | Giving up is not usually the American way , but it does have some attractions . |
| 28 | It is very good for creativity but it does have some other problems . |
| 29 | It is not a particularly good book and Niki despises it , but it does have some home truths in it . |
| 30 | Academically , this test is not very accurate but it does have some value as a rough comparative test between different materials . |