Example sentences of "but [subord] it [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is most unlikely for an odour per se to cause actual physical damage , but where it causes a diminution in the selling value of the property or injures the plaintiff 's business by , for example , causing potential customers to be lost , this may be regarded as sufficient invasion of the plaintiff 's interest to be tortious . |
| 2 | A working party chaired by Lady Vaizey was set up in 1977 to look into the question of making such payments , but although it produced a paper on the subject , no further action was taken . |
| 3 | But if it decides a question remitted to it for decision without committing any of these errors it is as much entitled to decide that question wrongly as it is to decide it rightly . |
| 4 | I certainly do n't want to have to do that , but if it becomes a problem I will : I 'm not going to put to the continuation of the list here in jeopardy ( or for that matter my good name , such as it is ! ) |
| 5 | It 's ready to put a match into but if it gets a bit colder now today night I 'll put a match in there see . |
| 6 | But if it means a return to the importance of family life in people 's reckoning , a respect for authority , and an appreciation of what is beautiful and god , surely we would all welcome a return to the old values . |
| 7 | The foetus may become handicapped not because it is genetically abnormal or have a metabolic defect , but because it contracts a disease or infection while in the womb . |
| 8 | It is indeed historic , not because reforms of local government have not taken place before — they have done so often — but because it offers a reform of the structure of local government . |
| 9 | In this context , Bryan Gould 's decision to challenge John Smith for the Labour leadership , as our political correspondent wrote last week , is welcome — not because he will win , but because it forces a debate to take place . |
| 10 | Thus the religion is adhered to , not because it fully meets a need , and can provide a source of actual enjoyment in worship and other activities , but because it provides a lifeline to be used in emergencies , when all other hopes of help have failed . |
| 11 | Eventually an old gentleman who had been listening with much amusement to their discussion said that what mattered was not whether the earthworm has an immortal soul but whether it has a purpose . |
| 12 | Equally , however , Sturge found the Civilization Society 's policy ‘ inadequate to meet the case but as it involves a violation of my peace principles I can take no part in it ’ . |
| 13 | He could not recall agreeing to this at all , but as it offered a chance of avoiding his own intervention , he nodded fervently , and took some more almond soup . |
| 14 | But as It celebrated a year of publication it had grown from twelve to twenty pages , with the ‘ What 's Happening ’ section now , significantly , filling two tightly set pages at the back , and the Arts Lab offering a ‘ Black Power Week ’ complete with Stokeley Carmichael — bundled out of the country post Dialectics of Liberation — on film , and ‘ Michael Abdul Malik and guests ’ . |
| 15 | But as it includes a crimper , a straightener and a triangular wand for angular curls , it 's good value . ’ |