Example sentences of "[noun sg] but it [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | If there was a swell on the east side where the the grating but there was also a gully landing which you get into the gully but it had to be a very fine day to get into the gully and there was a derrick there er you could a crane there that you could take everything out of the boat but it had to be a very fine day to get into the gully . |
| 3 | The problem is one which can not ultimately be resolved in pedagogy but it needs to be recognized , not in negative terms as a licence either for imposing fixed ideas or for random expediency , but as a positive incentive for continuing enquiry , which will be sensitive to the circumstances of different learning/teaching situations . |
| 4 | I also have an automatic washing machine but it has to be by the sink for the water to be pumped out and it has no wheels . |
| 5 | His wrist still throbbed from his fight with the Big Chicken but it seemed to be the only part of him that still had feeling ; the rest had retired bleeding but numbed into some secret cave of its own . |
| 6 | I keep hammering away at this point but it applies to so many areas and it 's so rarely done . |
| 7 | Now it may well be that the whole balance of things is that we 're generally okay for the moment but it seems to me that as time goes on and there 's a need to review plans and there 's a need to make further provision that it would be very very difficult indeed against a blanket policy as opposed to individual justifications around ind er individual settlements . |
| 8 | No one likes paying tax but it has to be paid . |
| 9 | If there was a swell on the east side where the the grating but there was also a gully landing which you get into the gully but it had to be a very fine day to get into the gully and there was a derrick there er you could a crane there that you could take everything out of the boat but it had to be a very fine day to get into the gully . |
| 10 | Special needs again we 've highlighted , we have put in a token on the er in the primary sector erm it 's a notional amount , clearly we ca n't tell the schools how to spend their money but it seemed to us that the increasing in managerial role of primary deputy heads , they would welcome er a small increase in non con in non contact time . |
| 11 | I mean it 's about sort of you know in it 's about increasing the erm where we are within our own particular sphere and it 's far too much I mean people it 's interesting that I mean for the , it seems to me an and once again correction but it seems to me the last five years the empowerment thing was really strong and now managers are moving away from it and saying it 's jargon as a means of diluting it . |
| 12 | He was saved by the fact that only the wings of the glider struck the cable but it led to more than 250 households having their electricity supplies cut off . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | One such difference is largely a matter of emphasis but it seems to me of significance . |
| 15 | We think of design only as applying to aesthetic matters like furniture or graphic art but it applies to everything . |
| 16 | Their marriages had fallen on stony ground but it seemed to me there was still hope . |
| 17 | Sportsmanship might be an old-fashioned concept to many in the modern game but it has to be protected . |
| 18 | The collective mind in action is clearly an important topic but it seems to be a challenge which psychologists have not yet taken up . |
| 19 | Tallboy himself was not without sympathy for this apocalyptic vision but it occurred to him to wonder who Jefferson thought the forces of justice were . |
| 20 | It was such a major operation but it had to be done although sometimes you think : My God , he 's worse off than before . |
| 21 | L190 has a good start in clean air but it looks to be the unfavoured end of the line . |
| 22 | ‘ I do listen to contemporary music but it tends to be electronic stuff that I ca n't put names to . |
| 23 | Oh , it 's a basic wage but it increased to about two pounds fifty or something , because of the status of the job . |
| 24 | At first I thought it was some ague but it proved to the Sweating Sickness . |
| 25 | Nothing that the head could do would make religion pervade the life of the school but it had to be recognized , he believed , that religion does permeate some people 's whole private lives . |
| 26 | There was nothing else to cause alarm but it seemed to him that every now and then the dark object from which the movement came itself heaved a little , grew larger , and then fell back . |
| 27 | The words " in relation to " referred to in the third limb do not appear in the section but it seems to the author that the reference to " any benefit to him by contract or otherwise " must relate in some way to the gifted property , and a conclusion along those lines seems to have been drawn in some of the old estate duty cases ( see Chick v Commissioners of Stamp Duties [ 1958 ] AC 435 at 447 ) . |
| 28 | It has of course been said that it is possible to practice veterinary medicine and that many doctors do not communicate in any language but it has to be said that there is room for improvement . |
| 29 | It ill becomes a foreigner to look in and pontificate on a short visit but it seemed to me that Australia as a rich country had given them only material goods , which merely sapped their self-sufficiency and their self-respect . |