Example sentences of "but it [vb -s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This has the advantage of relating expenditure to sales , but it discourages innovative approaches to advertising expenditure and does not allow for distinctions to be made between products or sales territories . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But it takes great courage for a politician to try and persuade voters of that fact . |
| 5 | Roses are naturally at their most beautiful in summer , but it takes year-long care to ensure they maintain their glory . |
| 6 | Any man can be unfaithful , but it takes special circumstances to write a letter like that . ’ |
| 7 | Probably most such birds possess more powerful navigational skills , such as those we shall discuss shortly for pigeons , but it takes special experiments to demonstrate the fact . |
| 8 | Linguistic posturing of this sort is the extreme reaction of a character in an extreme situation , but it dramatizes rhetorical manoeuvres available to both men and women who are forced into a position of discursive subservience . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | As a course this demands a very full timetable , but it offers strongly-motivated students an opportunity to develop in parallel the intellectual and practical sides of their study of art . |
| 11 | The substitution is thus not only inherently costly , but it evokes increased demand or , if you like , creates increased need . |
| 12 | Indeed , the Consumers ' Association have a publication entitled Taking your own case to court or tribunal designed to assist the layman wishing to take his own case rather than instruct solicitors ; but it warns potential litigants that to take on a particularly complicated legal action without legal help would be madness . |
| 13 | Chomper — Looks like a normal block , but it eats poor ol' Rufus alive ! |
| 14 | There is no claim that this resolves the differences , but it helps top managers understand where they might focus their efforts in order to improve effectiveness — i.e. it identifies inconsistent schemas . |
| 15 | I wo n't , I ca n't understand what it is , but it says general knowledge . |
| 16 | But it ignores social changes like the increase in the numbers of educated women , the decline in domestic help and the development of job and life expectations . |
| 17 | But it creates certain incongruities in his character . ’ |
| 18 | Size provides a cushion to the vicissitudes of markets but it creates other problems . |
| 19 | Brittle Power may be written for American readers ; but it deserves careful perusal everywhere . |
| 20 | ‘ Laughing when you should be crying ca n't be helped but it sends other people the wrong signals , so they may be shocked . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But it requires alkaline water and propagates freely from stem-cuttings . |
| 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 | It is a much needed long-term approach to widening life chances for people who can all too easily be consigned to standardized services and to cramped , narrow , and stultifying lives — but it requires significant resources . |
| 25 | Banc One sets basic yet strict financial targets for the banks it takes over , but it lets local managers decide how to meet them . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 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 | So we , the answer is we do n't really know but it seems common sense to apply barrier precautions and to do everything you can to modify the type of surgery so that the chances of having an injury with a sharp instrument are reduced , and people have made some constructive proposals along these lines . |
| 30 | There are final decisions still to be taken over the introduction of the speed controls but it seems likely humps would be in place by September this year . |