Example sentences of "but it [vb -s] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a fast and relatively cheap working method but it turns this into a real Spaghetti Opera , where the soundtrack never quite gels with the visuals . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This ‘ technology transfer ’ is a process of innovation , but it involves spreading existing technology from sectors where it is conventionally used throughout industry so as to provide added value and competitive advantage . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I received a stupid Certificate in Fine Art , which means nothing to me , but it pleases some . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But it takes great courage for a politician to try and persuade voters of that fact . |
| 10 | But it takes two to get pregnant , and it is just as important to educate boys about contraception . |
| 11 | Bitez offers exciting day cruising , but it takes two weeks to acclimatise most people to the strong winds ! |
| 12 | It 's difficult to tell which wines will win , and easy to say when wine is good , but it takes that little bit extra to make it a winner . |
| 13 | But it takes little to say , and doubtless contributes to the ‘ feel-good ’ factor all round . |
| 14 | But it takes resolute , technologically aware safety management and regulation to maintain them . |
| 15 | But it takes hundreds of thousands of years for these processes to turn the sediments into carbonate rock , and meanwhile biological changes , it now seems , play a key role in deterring the fluctuating carbon dioxide balance . |
| 16 | Roses are naturally at their most beautiful in summer , but it takes year-long care to ensure they maintain their glory . |
| 17 | in Southampton and he said we can give you next day this , they wo n't , they wo n't enter into it , we can give you next day delivery but it takes ten or twenty days . |
| 18 | There were 2 attacks early on , but it takes stronger stuff than this to beat Grimsby . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Any man can be unfaithful , but it takes special circumstances to write a letter like that . ’ |
| 21 | It gained terrific publicity , but it takes more than column inches to sell records , and I am sure that Elvis 's continuing success has more to do with talent . |
| 22 | ‘ Coppers , aye , but it takes more than coppers to cart them there ; they wo n't come and pick 'em up . ’ |
| 23 | well ha you , what you have is you have erm the ship , first of all you have the ship , it 's a plain ship on a white background , then you have the lights on a black background and then you have that blue bit in the middle but it takes three shots |
| 24 | I can still hear stuff , but it sounds swishy like when you listen to one of them curly sea shells . |
| 25 | No , but it sounds ancient . |
| 26 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 27 | But it sounds doubtful to me . |
| 28 | You speak my language but it sounds different . |
| 29 | The interior of the church suffered from the dead hand of the restorer between 1897 and 1907 , but it represents one of the most monumental examples of the Romanesque in Bohemia . |
| 30 | 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 . |