Example sentences of "but it [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sound quality suffers without a sound card , but it turns up in the unlikeliest places . |
| 2 | This is erm a warm current , small current , but nearby there is a big excursion of warm water wells up , and we 're not very sure why , but it extends out into the Pacific . |
| 3 | Well yeah but it takes longer on the bus , but er |
| 4 | Five years from the original appeal in nineteen eighty eight , those nurses still have n't gone all the way through the regrading process and any union officer will tell you that does n't just occur in City Hospital in this case , but it occurs right across the as well . |
| 5 | But it contrasts strikingly with the pin-stripes he sports for work . |
| 6 | But it fits well with the plodding pointlessness of it all ; ‘ Our Time In Eden ’ is a nice , ordinary , listless album . |
| 7 | Grand Slams are virtually the only tournaments to offer the light-hearted social event , but it fits perfectly into the scheme of things at Beckenham . |
| 8 | ‘ Alright , it was a success , but it went right against the music . |
| 9 | But it came oddly from the throats of people who by 1979 were as involved in government and state as the Magharba . |
| 10 | We expected little advertising support for the first effort in our new format but it came anyway on the strength of our description . |
| 11 | Huntington remained with the Esmondes until 1760 , when it was sold to the Bishop of Limerick ; but it came back into the family when it was bought in 1780 by Alexander Durdin , a Protestant , whose son Richard married Frances Esmonde . |
| 12 | For how many years have we been told it 's tax payers ' money do you remember Maggie and the tax payers ' money , it 's like this animal somewhere called the tax payer but it came out of the wall as if we were n't one of them and that we had to look after the tax payers ' money . |
| 13 | It is uncomfortable for us all , but it happens all over the world , every day of the week . ’ |
| 14 | The Community has rejected the notion of linking ‘ reciprocal access ’ to negotiations on Japanese car imports , but it talks menacingly about the ‘ balance of mutual interests ’ . |
| 15 | If the Bill had stopped there , we would have supported it as an unnecessary but reasonably harmless measure , but it goes far beyond the type of incident about which we are all deeply worried . |
| 16 | But it does best in the dappled shade you get under shrubs or woodland trees . |
| 17 | One might possibly have expected the average age of marriage in our sample to fall a little in wartime , but it does not in the recorded cases . |
| 18 | Tailoring the extent of regulation to the particular circumstances aims to give protection where it is necessary without interfering with the efficient operation of the market where it is not , but it does so at the expense of adding to the complexity of the regulations |
| 19 | Its existence as a commercial centre predated the start of the Edo period , but it grew rapidly from the early years of the seventeenth century and by the 1730s had an estimated population of over 300,000 . |
| 20 | It was bliss to feel some of the tension ease out of her , but it returned abruptly at the sharp sound of a breaking twig . |
| 21 | But it contrasted starkly with the immediate evacuation area around Chernobyl of about nineteen miles , and the eventual relocation of people living much farther away . |
| 22 | Something in his demeanour made a tremulous question form in Katherine 's mind , but it fluttered away at the distinctive sound of Violette 's infectious laugh . |
| 23 | This allows estimation of chronology and the identification of regional types , but it says little about the organisation of manufacture and dispersal . |
| 24 | But it sits uneasily with the often-heard principle that ‘ local services should respond to local needs ’ . |
| 25 | No doubt there is an underlife , but it exists independently of the officially sanctioned ‘ career trajectories ’ . |
| 26 | There may be a freedom to protest — but it exists only to the extent that it is permitted by the police . |
| 27 | The low sun made the street wall cast a long black shadow over half the garden , but it stopped just to the right of her patch . |
| 28 | He came out with a fantastic shot , but it screwed off to the right of the green , and went down oft the mound instead of falling in towards the flag . |
| 29 | But it seems out of the question for everybody to climb up there tonight . |
| 30 | But it pulled out across the path of the Volvo truck , carrying nine tonnes of road stone . |