Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun sg] but it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone considering buying a house should seek professional advice but it is easy to get lost in the jargon . |
| 2 | Placing an advertisement for someone kind and responsible to help may sound an unlikely way to find reliable help but it can have very satisfying results . |
| 3 | A poor attendance rate can signal condoned truancy but it needs to be used with other measures of attendance , and on a regular basis , to help schools to improve pupils ' attendance . |
| 4 | Where there is a non-pecuniary interest it is not necessary to establish actual bias but it is necessary to show that the decision has given the appearance of bias . |
| 5 | Similarly , becoming a hermit and avoiding contact with other people would be considered deviant behaviour but it is not criminal . |
| 6 | This critique has wide applicability but it is convenient to discuss it here . |
| 7 | For the ocean may provide dramatic scenery but it does not , in itself , belong centre-stage . |
| 8 | A smack may suppress unwanted behaviour but it wo n't indicate alternative actions to children — the things they should do . |
| 9 | The PSD 's post-1987 free market policies encouraged private-sector growth but it was only after the 1989 constitutional changes [ see p. 36857 ] that a more radical privatization programme designed to break up public monopolies could go ahead . |
| 10 | All had now to be arranged long distance but it seemed to work remarkably well . |
| 11 | ‘ I got good contact but it was straight at Chris , ’ recalled Linighan . |
| 12 | The theory is primarily inductive in nature and so lacks explanatory value but it may have helped to counter the trend towards specialization in science . |
| 13 | Sigsworth was given a drug which would normally induce prolonged unconsciousness but it had no effect on him . |
| 14 | Culture , because it provides a set of meanings , can restrain social behaviour but it also refers to ‘ the domain of social experience in which people work out their understanding of the world ’ ( Hales , 1974 ) . |
| 15 | Saturday night ; the pubs in the street would be doing good business but it was very quiet , only a faint hiss of escaping steam coming from the docks . |
| 16 | The Tate is primarily concerned with collecting contemporary art but it is never able to show more than from 23 to 25 per cent . |
| 17 | I spent about seven weeks there and I felt great inside but it was like I was wearing the wrong slip cover . |
| 18 | Time out is a very effective way of controlling aggressive behaviour but it needs to be applied at the time of the problem and the parents must remain calm and firm . |
| 19 | I would really love to have long hair but it never seems to grow at the back , only at the fringe ! |
| 20 | Not only does this action involve hand-eye co-ordination but it also involves information received by the other senses . |
| 21 | Unemployment and the poverty it brings can never justify criminal behaviour but it does , very often , explain it and the Conservatives ' refusal to accept the fact undermines their entire approach to law and order . |
| 22 | Henry remained overall policy-maker but it looks as though Eleanor had been left to supervise the day-to-day running of her duchy and effectively in sole charge of her second son . |
| 23 | Therefore , in history it is not nature and technology which makes human society but it is man himself , who in terms of his already existing ideas and values , makes his own history , as he encounters nature and the problems it poses . |