Example sentences of "but it [vb -s] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , I would argue , though not all would agree , may tell us something interesting about the way the brain compartmentalizes different aspects of visual processing and it may tell us that subjects are more conservative about admitting to seeing a very degraded image than about trying to move their eyes to it , but it sheds little light on the actual experiences the patients are having when we show them a light . |
| 2 | Carrying a tent where mountain huts are prolific may seem an unnecessary burden , but it allows total flexibility and we soon discovered the benefits of camping where we chose . |
| 3 | In many ways the VDU command is similar to a PRINT CHR$ ( num ) command , but it involves less typing and a number of characters may be easily sent . |
| 4 | This is spoken in the north and also understood in the eastern and western states ; but it receives short shrift once it ventures to enter the south . |
| 5 | But it takes great courage for a politician to try and persuade voters of that fact . |
| 6 | Roses are naturally at their most beautiful in summer , but it takes year-long care to ensure they maintain their glory . |
| 7 | There were 2 attacks early on , but it takes stronger stuff than this to beat Grimsby . |
| 8 | But it admits that Adobe technology is often the default standard , and wants to make the technology available within NewsPrint . |
| 9 | This might seem onerous but it guarantees that configuration control is maintained and , with some care , should be a very unusual occurrence . |
| 10 | Molton Brown , the British company based in London , may not have the quantity ( 48 eyeshadows and lipsticks , a dozen foundations , plus blushers and powders ) but it offers outstanding quality . |
| 11 | The substitution is thus not only inherently costly , but it evokes increased demand or , if you like , creates increased need . |
| 12 | Surely a forlorn ambition , but it goes some way to explain , what would otherwise be so difficult to understand , why eminent members of the nascent |
| 13 | It probably means that the average family is a much more relaxed affair than the traditional Scottish household used to be , but it goes some way towards explaining the numbers of children at risk in our society from adults outside the home , as well as from their own undisciplined emotions . |
| 14 | Chomper — Looks like a normal block , but it eats poor ol' Rufus alive ! |
| 15 | IBM is hoping that the popularity of workflow computing models will drive uptake , but it acknowledges that message queuing is not a new concept ; what is new it says , is the attempt to implement it across multiple manufacturer 's machines . |
| 16 | It could do good but it does more bad |
| 17 | I wo n't , I ca n't understand what it is , but it says general knowledge . |
| 18 | Brittle Power may be written for American readers ; but it deserves careful perusal everywhere . |
| 19 | It shows us the power of cumulative selection to generate an almost endless variety of quasi-biological form , but it uses artificial selection , not natural selection . |
| 20 | Not only does it close four more pits but it threatens five power stations in the area . |
| 21 | But it requires alkaline water and propagates freely from stem-cuttings . |
| 22 | THERE is another festival of sport this Sunday but it requires some channel switching . |
| 23 | This approach to viscoelastic theory is reasonably successful in the low modulus regions but it requires considerable modification if the high modulus and rubbery plateau regions are to be described . |
| 24 | The book is an imaginative outgrowth of practical criticism , but it breaks new ground in its choice of late Augustan poets — Charles Wesley and Samuel Johnson — and ( by a bold leap of association ) Wordsworth , Coleridge and the later Romantics : its chapter on ‘ Shelley 's urbanity ’ , paradoxical in its very title , showing the entry of a commanding new critical voice . |
| 25 | Because the sandwich is only a few angstroms thick it transmits visible light — but it reflects longer wavelength heat radiation . |
| 26 | That prospect may be less depressing than a future dominated by the BJP , but it leaves little room for optimism . |
| 27 | Innocence may be the first casualty of war , as the posters for the film boldly quoted , but it seems good taste is the first casualty in computer-game marketing . |
| 28 | Inevitably , the lost that set the buyers alight were the North American and European imports , but it seems mere novelty value can no longer secure the top prices . |
| 29 | Of course often they also fall into the first two categories mentioned , but it seems that household membership operates separately in relation to giving assistance , so that a particular child who shares a home with their parent is much more likely to be giving personal care than their siblings . |
| 30 | Tangible links are where SBUs have buyers , distribution channels , technology or competitors in common ( Porter has three categories , but it seems that competitor interrelationships are just as much a tangible link as those he specifies under that heading ) . |