Example sentences of "but it [adv] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Salvation Army missionary history included illness and tragedy , but it also had its success stories like Howard Institute where Eva was heading . |
| 2 | The study of technology is important in its own right , but it also deepens our understanding of a society as a whole because it is intimately connected with the way in which people are organised and the structure of their economy . |
| 3 | This distinction between cognitions ( the informational building blocks , the stored bits of information ) and specific attitudes or opinions is critical , for it not only emphasizes the public 's growing dependence on the mass media for information but it also draws our attention to the consequences of such a dependence . |
| 4 | Blackfriars , as we still call it , may be a monument to Edward 's friendship with the Dominicans ; but it also marks his determination to avoid the fate of his grandfather , King John , who had been finally driven to agree to the Magna Carta by finding the gates of the City shut against him . |
| 5 | Avoid being involved in a protest at all costs since , not only does it risk a disqualification , but it also ruins your concentration as you ponder over the incident . |
| 6 | The market system holds out opportunities for the peasant , but it also makes his situation more precarious . |
| 7 | I do n't want to start any scare stories , but it just illustrates our ignorance . |
| 8 | But it probably helped our friendship , because we 've been through a lot since then . |
| 9 | In fig. 123 the violent diagonal of the hero 's body , twisting back as he throws himself across , lies over the counter-diagonal of the bull , carved in low relief on the background but it too turning its head out and back . |
| 10 | Between the feet are the remains of a green parrot — whether immolated or not at the death of his mistress is uncertain — but it still retains its plumage ; it is a far less repulsive-looking object than the larger bi-ped . |
| 11 | It no longer needed the wealthy connoisseur for his erudition , it had acquired the relevant expertise into its own hands , but it still needed his recognition to be acceptable to society . |
| 12 | The recordings , made in Montreal church , initially strike the ear as a little distant , but it quickly adapts its focus ; the piano tone is clear and uncluttered . |
| 13 | Later reports from the IBM Corp annual meeting in Tampa , Florida on Monday stress the anger of shareholders that we forecast when we mentioned that the meeting was to be held in America 's retirement capital : ‘ IBM stock no longer provides for your old age , but it certainly hastens its arrival , ’ one irate shareholder told Louis Gerstner during the annual meeting ; some 2,300 shareholders , mostly elderly investors and current or former IBM employees , crowded into the Tampa Convention Center for the meeting . |
| 14 | I do n't know why or how it worked but it certainly took my mind off my voice . |
| 15 | I know it was n't very witty but it certainly galvanised my Dad . |
| 16 | Helen Crane , an ex-secretary , valued her job because it not only gave her the experience of autonomy , but it publicly valued her exercise of this responsibility : |
| 17 | It is unlikely that any report in the UK would be so brutally honest , but it accurately describes our situation , except that the inadequate nature of our provision for many students has long been recognised by many educators , and only becomes important to others through economic necessity . |