Example sentences of "it but [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He eventually got the hang of it but to this day , keeps well clear of water . |
| 2 | THE SEABOARD IS a little less Eastern than you might have remembered it but to the enterprising Americans this is not a problem . |
| 3 | Following the Oxford Dictionary , which is here a more lucid guide than my more abstruse colleagues , we can say that a symbol signifies something other than or complementary to itself ; it can therefore be used to represent , express , or image things which are external to it but to which it is linked in an appropriate fashion . |
| 4 | He had not deliberately marked it but to his eyes the pattern of tiny scratches on the handle was as good as a signature . |
| 5 | It 's a minefield ; certainly Government agencies feel very uncomfortable about it but to us it 's clear that TUPE will apply . |
| 6 | erm sometimes that 's , that 's about it but to be honest |
| 7 | There was nothing for it but for me to drive the ten miles there and back and pick it up , because the doctors would need to examine him and sign the certificate at 6.30 . |
| 8 | There was nothing for it but for the two young men themselves to go to Lucy 's aid so , clearing their minds of any impure notions , they darted forward and seized her humming body , one by the shoulders , the other by the knees . |
| 9 | Disraeli comments favourably on an exception to this rule at Beaumanoir : ‘ How delightful was the morning room … from which gentlemen were not excluded with that assumed suspicion that they can never enter it but for felonious purposes . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ And if we 're to outwit these giants , there 's nothing for it but for me to call up the Draoicht Suan . |
| 11 | I do not mean it in any ideological sense or historical sense or to be provocative but it 's very , it 's with very deep feelings that I speak to you today because you may not understand it but for me , after thirty three years in exile I was able to return to South Africa in nineteen ninety one and one of the first activities to which I was invited was the annual meeting of Cosatu And so when we say comrades in that sense , and thank you as comrades we mean it as comrades in arms . |
| 12 | There was nothing for it but for her to go in . |
| 13 | It 's a pleasure for any other to see her child being able to do it but of course it 's hard work . |
| 14 | Which I really I went to Amos and I did n't like it but of course I had to stick it . |
| 15 | We had every other Sunday off , you see , but otherwise we worked and did n't get any extra for it but of course the girls like myself well erm we could n't lift these huge urns of tea so they had two men keep them on , you see , and er , and we were er perhaps I know one day we did n't finish until five o'clock in the morning |
| 16 | and that 's the way its it left we left it but of course as I mentioned to him we 'd completely omitted Tats which of course we we we had n't done Tats at all . |
| 17 | No you know it 's just to have a point if anyone had thought anything about it but of course |
| 18 | Do n't force it but with repetition it will get easier . |
| 19 | I 'm sure he 'd enjoy it but with us all upstairs he 'd have to go downstairs on his own , and he 's not pushy like our Terry and Stephen . ’ |
| 20 | Apparently he did use it but with a different he did n't put nutrients in it did he . |
| 21 | Other examples in the Renaissance include the malcontent who haunts the very power structure which has alienated him , seeking reinscription within it but at the same time demystifying it , operating within and subverting it at the same time ; the revengers whose actions constitute an even more violent bid for reinscription within the very society which has alienated and dispossessed them ; the assertive women , the ‘ women on top ’ described by Natalie Zemon Davis who simultaneously appropriate , exploit , and undermine masculine discourse . |
| 22 | Once he has found a group , the male stays with it but at a reasonable distance of perhaps 30 or 40 m ( 100–130 ft ) . |
| 23 | But I mean , er you can see the , you can see the point of that and and presumably , yes , there must be lots of very wealthy people who who er , just get the child benefit and hardly notice it but at the same time , could n't we means test the old age pension ? |
| 24 | You can spend quite a lot of time subsequently getting the machine configured just as you want it but at least you can relax in the knowledge that it all works and the difficult part of the upgrade is well and truly over . |
| 25 | He sees the burgeoning Green awareness as a step towards it but at the moment it could be a step towards almost anything . |
| 26 | It was struck not at the weak man who suffered it but at the strong God who was the man 's master . |
| 27 | As for his personal problems during the seventies — well i guess we can have some fun about it but at least he got to meet ( well not just meet … ) two or three miss world's. |
| 28 | if it starts getting milky then I change it but at the moment there 's only one little fish see ? |
| 29 | Does not this necessitate a definition which is based on neither lawyers ' rhetoric nor a reaction to it but on what they actually do ? |
| 30 | For front projection , the projector is still threaded up reversing left and right , as in rear projection ( it is put in the ‘ wrong ’ way round in order to come out correct in the final composite ) ; but instead of being behind a translucent screen it s in front of , and to one side of , a glass beaded screen which reflects nearly 100 per cent of the light falling on it but on y in the direction from which it came Though the projector is at 90° to the camera-screen axis and its beam is therefore initially parallel to the plane of the screen , passing in front of the actors in the foreground this beam is deflected by a half-silvered mirror at an angle of 45° to the beam This semi-transparent mirror is coated at the front ( unlike normal mirrors , coated behind the glass ) with a very thin layer of aluminium — silver tarnishes too easily Alternatively , the layer of aluminium may be spattered on , so that tiny reflective spots of metal are interspersed with tiny transparent gaps So , although it reflects the beam , the camera can photograph both the action and the reflection from the screen through the mirror Though the mirror reflects the still or moving image from the projector on to the actors and any foreground props or sets as well as on to the screen , the level of illumination of the image is much less than that on the actors , so the camera records only that part of the image reflected from the screen . |