Example sentences of "but it [vb -s] [adj] " 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 ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But it takes great courage for a politician to try and persuade voters of that fact . |
| 6 | But it takes resolute , technologically aware safety management and regulation to maintain them . |
| 7 | Roses are naturally at their most beautiful in summer , but it takes year-long care to ensure they maintain their glory . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Any man can be unfaithful , but it takes special circumstances to write a letter like that . ’ |
| 10 | I can still hear stuff , but it sounds swishy like when you listen to one of them curly sea shells . |
| 11 | No , but it sounds ancient . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But it sounds doubtful to me . |
| 14 | You speak my language but it sounds different . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | His vigorous and provocative Unionist polemic against the importance of ‘ the constitutional question ’ is bracing , but it renders comical his charge that the SNP ‘ is a party of no compromise ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The substitution is thus not only inherently costly , but it evokes increased demand or , if you like , creates increased need . |
| 20 | You keep expecting the spell to be shattered , especially as Michael Kitchen is around looking much like the villains he has played lately , but it remains intact . |
| 21 | But it remains essential that I know their candidates ' attitudes before deciding . |
| 22 | But it remains essential to a stable cash flow . |
| 23 | The bank has dropped its usual review of the prospects for the real economy from the latest quarterly bulletin , but it remains convinced that real economic growth will come when exports start rising and the country 's creditors decide that assets are cheap and start spending . |
| 24 | Linguistic analysis may distinguish cases where meaning is not effectively conveyed but it remains unconcerned with what is meant by an utterance ; structural linguistics is not an interpretive study . |
| 25 | Teenage pregnancy is not a new phenomenon but it remains controversial and attracts disproportionate and misleading media attention . |
| 26 | But it remains unclear what the next step could be . |
| 27 | Althusser asserts that all ideology is ‘ centred ’ while science is ‘ decentred ’ and his no subjects and no Subject but it remains unclear how science might escape from ideology . |
| 28 | Lapse Theory can be invoked to explain all the results described above , but it remains unclear whether the lapses in attention induced by lowered arousal are the only important symptoms of sleep loss . |
| 29 | But it remains unclear what type of rifle was used in the two most recent murders in Forkhill and Crossmaglen . |
| 30 | Furthermore , it has long been suggested that there is an inhibitory effect on hepatitis B virus replication by hepatitis delta virus in chronic hepatitis B virus infection , but it remains unclear whether hepatitis delta virus might interfere with the expression of hepatitis B virus envelope antigens in the liver or not . |