Example sentences of "but it [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jane kept talking to him , but it sounded remarkably like David |
| 2 | But it sounded more like Hilda alone — it was just the sort of thing to appeal to Hilda 's sense of humour . |
| 3 | Behind him Hrun screamed , but it sounded more like a bellow of rage than a cry of pain . |
| 4 | That was entirely true , but it sounded very limp as I said it and my voice just tailed away . |
| 5 | But it sounded very |
| 6 | But it sounded too much like preaching , so he kept his mouth shut . |
| 7 | But he mounted the steps anyway , and knocked on the door to make certain : the sound was sudden and startling , but it died away quickly , with no response from within the building . |
| 8 | It shares with the Justice Model a retributivist approach and a preference for proportionate , ‘ just deserts ’ punishments , but it advocates more severe fixed-term sentences . |
| 9 | Lloyds runs a similar scheme but it involves just one institution . |
| 10 | In spite of this lack of actual power , their influence can be significant but it varies greatly both between authorities and with the type of development concerned . |
| 11 | The title is indicative of a movement generally in Canada away from the ‘ social environment towards the more permanent world of archetypal forms and myths , ’ ( as Desmond Pacey reviewed it ) ; but it represented much more the interests uppermost in Leonard 's own mind : the juxtaposing and conflicting ‘ mythologies ’ of his youth in cosmopolitan Montreal . |
| 12 | This is also due to the action of plaque but it takes longer and is harder to spot . |
| 13 | Well yeah but it takes longer on the bus , but er |
| 14 | Morse shook his head : ‘ It provokes the desire , but it takes away the performance . ’ ’ |
| 15 | I 'm quite sure that the way forward for teachers and parents is within some kind of co-operative framework , and the only way that can work effectively is for each to be aware of other 's needs and difficulties , and the kind of barriers that have existed in the past for parents to get into schools I think are being lowered by the schools , but it takes almost a generation , I think , for parents to stop being frightened about what school is doing and the kind of parents who 've had bad experiences themselves in schools , I think , have enormous difficulties in approaching teachers and I 'm sure the answer is in terms of co-operative activity — children and schools , schools and parents , and all of them together with myriad of outside agencies that are available for children with severe problems . |
| 16 | But it takes quite a time for the liquid to solidify and the glass to splinter and fragment . |
| 17 | But it takes so much time and you 're leaving tomorrow . |
| 18 | Weaving does take longer than knitting a piece of the same size , but it takes very little longer to weave a long row than a short one , so this can save a considerable amount of time . |
| 19 | This calculation may look cumbersome , but it takes very little time and provides record storage positions very effectively . |
| 20 | Koestler and Orwell met and became friends during the war , but it takes more than two to make a coterie , and in conversation Koestler denied having taught Orwell anything important about communism : it was a meeting , not always entirely harmonious , of like minds . |
| 21 | This is helpful in pointing to long-term shifts in sexual norms in the last century ( though its dating is misleading ) , but it combines both an evolutionist teleology ( with the present appearing as little more than a culmination of ineluctable historical trends ) and a use of the metaphor of repression which in the end is emotive rather than analytical and obscures more than it reveals . |
| 22 | Five years from the original appeal in nineteen eighty eight , those nurses still have n't gone all the way through the regrading process and any union officer will tell you that does n't just occur in City Hospital in this case , but it occurs right across the as well . |
| 23 | Alas , there is no way this can be overcome but it occurs so rarely that it is not in itself an outstanding problem . |
| 24 | ‘ I hope you do n't mind my saying so , but it sounds pretty boring to me . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ But it sounds so cruel — and dangerous ! ’ |
| 26 | But it sounds absolutely beautiful so we 're gon na have to go and visit . |
| 27 | On the contrary , it may not last but it represents perhaps one way to move away from traditional easel painting , for example . |
| 28 | But it contrasts strikingly with the pin-stripes he sports for work . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , it was a poor time , but it improved rapidly . ’ |
| 30 | A herd of cattle may seem an odd place to look for the meaning of life but it fits neatly with current American pop- psychology : no doubt these urban liberals have packed copies of Robert Bly 's ‘ Iron Jack ’ in their saddlebags . |