Example sentences of "but it [verb] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were 2 attacks early on , but it takes stronger stuff than this to beat Grimsby . |
| 2 | He did n't even know she was there , but it seemed wiser to hide . |
| 3 | ‘ I never finished it , but it seemed better just as an idea to sum up the album . |
| 4 | I mean I actually voted for this contract , erm , rather reluctantly , but it seemed better than not , doing so at the time , but we were given assurances , and it was very well understood by absolutely everybody , that vigorous management would be needed in order to achieve the targetising and that was the only way that the savings were going to be made , and it does seem that , that , erm that has not been going on . |
| 5 | Less than a few seconds , but it seemed longer than time . |
| 6 | The view that the East Ropery Banks site might be considered for ‘ high value ’ housing in order to provide potential consumers for the shopping centre had first been expressed in the Poulson Report of 1965 , but it had greater saliency by 1971 because the authority was already dealing with its second property company ( Town and City ) and it was clear that market conditions made the redevelopment of North Shields centre a highly marginal project . |
| 7 | But it remains greater in every region compared with a year ago . |
| 8 | But it goes deeper than that . |
| 9 | What he has to come out with is not initially clear , but it becomes clearer when a taste of gay night-life turns him off , and he trails back to his dull wife . |
| 10 | ‘ But it got louder and louder until I recognised it as Benny Hill 's voice . |
| 11 | ‘ She did , but it got worse for her . |
| 12 | It started off badly — in April 1940 Norman Birkett spoke of ‘ gross mistakes and pathological stupidities in connexion with its internment policy ( p. 39 ) — but it got better . |
| 13 | Towards the end it got better and they worked , it was a bad start , but it got better towards the end . |
| 14 | This would at best have been a major irritant for an embattled leader of the opposition But it became worse than that . |
| 15 | Political anti-semitism attracted mass support for the BUF in a limited geographical area , but it engendered greater hostility within those same localities and had appalling consequences elsewhere . |
| 16 | It looks alright , but it looked better when it was long . |
| 17 | It did n't hurt , honestly , but it looked worse than it was and Lisabeth sort of saw red . ’ |
| 18 | I did n't like it much either , but it gets better . |
| 19 | But it gets worse : the Home Office has now decided that those Departments must find the money to build the places but that local authorities must find the running costs . |
| 20 | The issue is a big one , but it gets bigger when we consider the ‘ life and death ’ issues affecting the newly born handicapped child : |
| 21 | But it gets easier , and if we do n't begin and step out in faith then our gift will never mature . |
| 22 | want to marry her , but it gets funnier and funnier . |
| 23 | The restaging generally has less bite and less fluency than Hall 's original — Susanna 's humour is more truly peasant-like — but it feels warmer and more sympathetic . |
| 24 | Because the sandwich is only a few angstroms thick it transmits visible light — but it reflects longer wavelength heat radiation . |
| 25 | The change in v 1 was , on average , relatively greater than the change in P immediately after the tetanus , but it showed greater decrement over time . |
| 26 | Erm actually it 's about the same , but it looks better in my accounts . |
| 27 | It was not the complete answer to the problem , and I doubt if anyone will find it , but it works better than anything else I know . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's illogical , but it works better than if you had an elected house . ’ |
| 29 | A tan acquired slowly not only looks nicer and more natural , but it lasts longer and rarely peels . |