Example sentences of "but it [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it does vary from year to year . |
| 2 | This is not an unduly difficult task but it does demand a little effort . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Scientific knowledge is not proven knowledge , but it does represent knowledge that is probably true . |
| 5 | But it does recognize the need for the educators to find ways of helping them cope . |
| 6 | But it does offer security and freedom from disturbance . |
| 7 | As yet this technique has limited spatial and temporal resolution but it does offer a means of looking at human brain activity in a fairly safe way . |
| 8 | Often , invoice discounting is more attractive to the larger companies that can manage their own sales ledgers , but it does expose the factor/invoice discounter to greater risks because it is not so closely involved in the client 's affairs . |
| 9 | History provides us with no guide as to how all this will work out , but it does remind us of the need for sensitivity when dealing with powerful social forces . |
| 10 | It does n't actually have to tell me that I am ‘ earthed ’ but it does remind me that I am . |
| 11 | But it does lead inevitably to ignorance , for you can not understand what you deliberately chose to have no truck with . |
| 12 | This is an over-simple account , but it does bring out the essential point that , at some stage , substances have to be transported across a membrane against a concentration gradient . |
| 13 | Now merely saying that is not evidence of any kind ( and may merely annoy those AI workers who program in languages other than LISP and do use flow-charts ) , but it does bring out something of the opposition between modules and levels that is the heart of the last part of this paper : flow-chart boxes are essentially separated from each other in ways like those that separate the modules of programs ; but program levels are not like that . |
| 14 | Erm but it does bring you back with things . |
| 15 | Well for a start it 's not a joke , but it does bring a wry smile in the aftermath of Ireland 's crunching victory over England last week . |
| 16 | Well , a magnum sounds splendidly sophisticated , but it does hold as much as two ordinary bottles . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This does not disqualify the character from honourable knightly status — think of Tristram and Yseult , or Lancelot and Guinevere — but it does create a degree of tension : the service of a knight to another man 's lady wife is , as the Lancelot–Guinevere tale shows , the classically subversive element within the knightly ethos . |
| 19 | But it does secure what is surely the central and most important point , by removing the possibility of unintended consequences for the libraries . |
| 20 | Unemployment has fallen in the county , although not as fast as in other parts of the region , but it does appear that some 800 previously unemployed Kent people have gained work as a direct result of the Tunnel . |
| 21 | But it does appear that asking people what things mean is not necessarily the best way of tapping their semantic knowledge . |
| 22 | Nothing is known as to what has happened in Switzerland , but it does appear that in the United States , after a long course of litigation , the attempts have failed . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It is always dangerous to draw individual implications from social and psychological survey-work such as this , but it does fit : Leonard 's admission of insomnia , of disturbing dreams and nightmares , his high sensitivity , his creative abilities ; not least his father 's demise and his mother 's need to attend to him during his frequent bouts of sickness before it . |
| 25 | IBM Japan Ltd is not risking the opprobrium that fell on Eastman Kodak Co when it fired two thirds of its Japanese researchers and withdrew offers of employment it had made to graduates , but it does want to get its 25,000-strong workforce down by 1,200 . |
| 26 | This does not mean that there are no generalizations that can be made about evolution , but it does make biology a different kind of science from physics . |
| 27 | But it does make clear a belief that the divine being reveals or manifests its nature in the world . |
| 28 | It 's easy to be deceived into thinking none of it makes any sense but it does make sense : a strange , twisted , whimsical , surreal kind of sense . |
| 29 | But it does make sense to paint floors last thing at night , giving the paint a chance to dry overnight . |
| 30 | But it does make him an easy target . |