Example sentences of "but [conj] it [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , I would argue that not only does it do this , but that it goes much further , indicting all men in complicity for rape and insisting that they share the guilt . |
| 2 | Mark Whiteside ( 18 ) , said he had only recently started modelling but that it had all been good fun . |
| 3 | The problem is not just that buckminsterfullerene forms , but that it does so with such efficiency . |
| 4 | Most students of the phenomenon however , are convinced that it is ‘ real ’ but that it depends exquisitely on the context . |
| 5 | It does n't follow that the cap/name link disappears but that it becomes so to say transpersonalized . |
| 6 | Many believe that Mr Kinnock 's heart may have been cut out and stamped on but that it beats anew in Mr Brown , and for this reason alone the party leader is credited with wanting the 41-year old Scot to succeed him in the event of disaster . |
| 7 | The two cases also show that change is a possibility , but that it has mainly been in the past through change in the hierarchy 's and clergy 's attitudes as well . |
| 8 | But although it had now been raining for several hours , there was not the least damp or cold either in the deep runs or in the many burrows that they passed . |
| 9 | But although it staggered once more , it still did n't drop . |
| 10 | This , Mwangaza ( ‘ Light ’ ) , was later to become the first Swahili daily , but although it cost only three cents it never achieved sales higher than about 1,400 . |
| 11 | ‘ But if it takes that long to sort things out I 'd like to be playing for Sunderland . |
| 12 | But if it becomes too long there is a danger that the listener will forget the original theme , concentrating on the third sentence because it assumes too much importance . |
| 13 | I do not know if elegans shares the interesting ‘ primitive ’ features of livingstonii — it is certainly quite similar in appearance — but if it does then perhaps we have here a group of fish descended from ancestors which stopped off on the way to the rocks , and which did not need to evolve the specialisations needed in the more-densely populated and competitive atmosphere of the rocky zones . |
| 14 | Thirdly , the Act clearly adopts as the test of danger either ‘ the greater risk of harm ’ or ‘ the risk of greater harm ’ : an elephant may not in fact be very likely to get out of control and do damage , but if it does so , its bulk gives it a great capacity for harm . |
| 15 | We do not know the immediate solution but if it continues then Malone must go and we think that we could have an excellent player-manager in big Davy Jeffrey . |
| 16 | But if it happens again , please know that you can call someone — that 's what we 're here for . |
| 17 | She said : ‘ I 'm disappointed I did n't catch them but if it happens again I 'll get ‘ em . ’ |
| 18 | This should cause the chain to tighten and slacken in turn , but if it remains tight , clearly it is the wrong way round . |
| 19 | If the predator takes a wrong direction they remain in hiding until the danger is passed , but if it comes close again they wait until the last moment and then repeat the dash-and-hide movement . |
| 20 | Tony does n't expect his navvy to turn many heads , but if it makes just one or two commuters appreciate the courage and dedication of the men who made the Chiltern Line , the effort was worth it . |
| 21 | But if it 's just been brought out of the calf pens , fresh muck when it 's been spreaded in , and you know that tummy muscles , along mucking out the calf pens , they 'd been all the winter on this , getting tighter and harder , all through the winter . |
| 22 | But if it rises suddenly or to a high level , he will need to consider whether you are developing high blood pressure problems or pre-eclampsia . |
| 23 | The components of a chemical compound can be identified and their concentrations measured , but unless it has already been proved that the particular component identified is odorous at the concentration encountered , such measurements will have little evidential value in proving the odour complained of either does or does not amount to a nuisance at law . |
| 24 | Others said Hong Kong should be optimistic , not because 1997 meant so much , but because it meant so little . |
| 25 | This " self-determination " speech , as it became known , was probably the most important that he delivered during the Algerian conflict — not because it expressed radically new ideas , but because it expressed openly and in concrete terms what had hitherto been implicit . |
| 26 | But because it operates only at the level of ideas , without any attempt to specify why particular ideas are held in particular societies at particular times , other than by reference to other ideas , interactionist social psychology can only describe peoples ' beliefs , not explain them . |
| 27 | In time a limit may be reached , not because of the depth of the pit but because it becomes too wide and approaches land that must not be disturbed . |
| 28 | This point is made not in the interests of pedantry , but because it bears directly on the criticisms of current approaches to the global system that lie at the heart of this book . |
| 29 | Tax and bill collectors faced more practical confusion , not only with a ‘ re-timed ’ calendar but because it had also been decided to start the legal year on January 1 instead of March 25 , which had been New Year 's Day since the twelfth century . |
| 30 | Spenser 's A View of the Present State of Ireland was written during 1596 but because it advocated far more severe measures than Elizabeth 's government would tolerate it was not allowed to be published until 1633 when it appeared in a somewhat watered down version edited by Sir James Ware . |