Example sentences of "[verb] but [adv] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ceiling reminded him about the church , the roof had been mended but really it was little more than a pig sty . |
| 2 | ‘ This exercise has allowed the bona fide cocklers to work but hopefully it has curbed those less caring about the estuary . |
| 3 | About one third of the island was devastated but fortunately it was thinly populated , and casualties were relatively few : only 1,350 people were killed . |
| 4 | Sometimes this is no more than a description of what has to be done but sometimes it incorporates how the operator does it or should do it . |
| 5 | The emphasis will be on putting everything into context , not only what a particular package achieves but how it does it , how it relates to the other packages in the same area and how it might be extended . |
| 6 | There are honest discounts to be had but often it 's just hype , designed to create sales euphoria . ’ |
| 7 | I think erm sexuality begins with sensuality and therefore it should begin in the home , and it should be exaggerated at school , I mean , it should helped but fundamentally it 's with your parents or guardians whoever , who should begin it . |
| 8 | There , that manoeuvre is known as gybing but really it 's as simple as that , sailing downwind you do n't have to change course very often , unlike when we 're sailing upwind with tacking but we need to show you a few more demonstrations about it in quick succession . |
| 9 | Erm that 's putting it bluntly because erm obviously being a volunteer is a sort of two way thing , we could n't run without volunteers , we 're very grateful for the ones we 've got but So it 's clearly a matter of whether you decide and whether you like the way we like to run things or or not . |
| 10 | Like the foreign exchange market , no physical euro-currency market exists but instead it consists of telecommunications between banks . |
| 11 | At the moment it is closed but normally it displays a rich collection of textiles . |
| 12 | But each week consists of 168 hours ; you have to work , sleep , and eat but surely it must be possible to find one or two hours somewhere in there just for you . |
| 13 | — it gives out with some mess that I might normally eat but now it sort of blows away and there 's a whole muddle of emotion in my … |
| 14 | The full extent of the work carried out is not known , but it is thought that at least the outboard wing panels were replaced but certainly it was given four new Merlin 22 engines , H2S and the navigation aid Rebecca , as well as a brand new paint scheme . |
| 15 | I know but then it 's the money is n't it ? |
| 16 | I know but then it |
| 17 | ‘ The mind will continue to develop but nevertheless it will have those savage fears of a hurt child . |
| 18 | Beforehand our system is not in general in an eigenstate of the observable we are intending to measure but rather it is a superposition of such states . |
| 19 | If I say to you behaviourism is about di dum di dum and I did but obviously it did n't sink in at the time . |
| 20 | I suppose looking back on what I said at the time it was true and I did really love you and I still do but now it 's not sexual or romantic , it was n't sexual then because my mind was too pure and partly because you were such a huge chunk of my life , one seventh , and I think I always will do n't know what that 's su oh it 's love you I suppose for you it must have been such a small thing and at fifteen stroke sixteen you can probably only just remember me I was fourteen actually I was the middle son who was n't properly blond unlike the brothers and hung around near you far too much . |
| 21 | Such brief ‘ thumb-nail ’ sketches do give some indication of the essence of sociology , but ultimately it is both necessary and perhaps more fruitful to emphasise that the most important and distinctive feature of sociology is not so much what is studied but how it is studied , i.e. it is important to indicate what is the particular perspective of sociology , its distinct way of looking at the individual and society . |
| 22 | What matters is not just what Parliament decides but how it decides . |
| 23 | In order to draft effectively , and to make intelligent use of precedents , the drafter must not only know what to say but why it is necessary to say it , how to say it , and what will be the result of saying it differently . |
| 24 | I did not mean to say but perhaps it is better I should , therefore only remark that I will speak on the subject in my next , but do not suffer alarms on my account — I am in better health than I have been for years and I hope to get to Sydney and get comfortably settled in good time … ’ |
| 25 | Numerous definitions of ROCE can be devised but essentially it can be defined as : The numerator in this calculation is taken from an organization 's profit and loss account or income and expenditure account while the denominator is taken from the organization 's balance sheet . |
| 26 | Sometimes the purpose will be described but often it wo n't , since you may try to anticipate the result . |