Example sentences of "but it [adv] [vb -s] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now there are occasionally criticisms from members that there is too much concentration on the elite end of sport in the Sports Federation in this instance the R Y A but what is important about the is an effort to produce a very high standard as a finished product so to speak to go to the Olympics but it also helps to concentrate minds on the bit that is missing before and help to recycle everybody 's concentration into the training area and Rod has just been talking about the year of youth and of course it follows on very naturally in a post- olympic year to launch that year of youth . |
| 2 | But it also dares to touch and stretch its readers in ways that the curiously deadpan Grand Guignol of Granta never will . |
| 3 | This alternative picture involves denying that there is a coherent materialist alternative to the Cartesian ‘ private theatre ’ view of the mind ; but it also involves placing the attack on the Cartesian picture in a wider context . |
| 4 | Not only does this put the lives of Cubatoa 's 100,000 inhabitants in immediate danger , but it also threatens to wipe out one of Brazil 's main economic centres . |
| 5 | The heartbeat does n't match , but it also keeps changing . |
| 6 | But it also plans to increase its worldwide capital spending in 1993 to £6.6 billion , from £5.2 billion last year . |
| 7 | And maybe it has but it also seems to have raised the stakes unhelpfully , even dangerously high . |
| 8 | The study not only describes changes in central-local relationships but it also attempts to explain them . |
| 9 | But it also appears to depend upon the extent to which employer control over the workplace is enhanced by multi-employer bargaining rather than by independent , single-firm action . |
| 10 | But it also tends to recapitulate mainstream psychological theories of gender , which focus on female subjects , sexual and reproductive difference , and reduce questions about gender , finally , to the need to find out the truth about the biologically sexed subject . |
| 11 | The significance of this is that not merely does sight — particularly the excellent stereoscopic colour vision of the primates — require a developed cerebral cortex , but it also tends to mean progressive emancipation from the basic chemical and pheromonal control of behaviour seen in many mammals in which the sense of smell has retained its pristine importance . |
| 12 | In part this means seeing who teams up with whom in what kind of work situation and why , but it also means looking at the facts in quantitative terms . |
| 13 | The main difficulty is that in order to record capital the organization not only has to know what assets it owns but it also has to put a value on them , even if the ‘ value ’ is their historic cost . |
| 14 | This is partly due to the rapid growth of the financial services industry which has increased the demand for actuaries , but it also has to do with expansion of the skills which actuaries have to offer . |
| 15 | But it also has built in a Help facility , teaching aids , so that if at some point in the middle of developing your program you forget something , you can ask the system erm to tell you for instance how to use one of its facilities , and you can get onto the screen some information about that , and then carry on where you were , and you can switch easily between different modes . |
| 16 | But it also has to provide the means by which a modern society provides houses and gardens — which the British love — where once they huddled in two-up-two-downs and the spec-built terraces which pre-dated the loathed Sixties ‘ slums in the skies ’ . |
| 17 | The politics of the situation probably means that it has to be sensitive to the traditional concerns of the governments themselves but it also has to provide strong arguments for deviations from generally accepted accounting principles for business . |
| 18 | Rationality is part of our greatness , but it also serves to keep us humble because rationality itself must be assumed by faith . |
| 19 | It wants to be less reliant on the depressed shipping industry but it also wants to shake off the tag of being the world 's market of last resort and is determined to win safer contracts . |
| 20 | It wants to be less reliant on the depressed shipping industry but it also wants to shake off the tag of being the world 's market of last resort and is determined to win safer contracts . |
| 21 | But it also wants to build a family of jets with 80–130 seats . |
| 22 | ‘ But it just goes to show , ’ Ruth said , ‘ that they were right when they said emigrants should n't wait to leave until they were too far gone in poverty , but should go while they still have enough to provision themselves . ’ |
| 23 | Now it wo n't be that long in your case , but it just goes to show how lengthy the whole thing can be . |
| 24 | For many people there is an aura of mystery about dealing on the money markets but it just involves picking up a telephone , ringing two or three numbers , asking the price of something ( the interest or discount rate ) , and buying from the cheapest source . |
| 25 | I carried on , then came back to live in the North but it just seems to have been a really cemented bond . ’ |
| 26 | This does not necessarily mean that pupils can not distinguish the 2-D from the 3-D shape — they may be using a more familiar name for dual reference — but it probably does mean that they have not formalized for themselves the relationships among the various features of cubes and pyramids . |
| 27 | But it too manages to find its way down to southern Africa . |
| 28 | Sometimes we know people very well , but it still helps does n't it if somebody else comes in that there 's some sort of system there that somebody else who takes over your section can find out exactly who 's received what . |
| 29 | Mushroom compost is the material from mushroom beds after cropping has finished , by which time the urine content has gone , but it still needs composting if it is to be dug in . |
| 30 | There is no doubt that Marlborough , Massachusetts-based Sequoia Systems Inc has all its marbles in the right place when it comes to designing and building fault-tolerant Unix systems — it would n't be an important partner of Hewlett-Packard Co if that were n't the case , but it still needs to get its act together on the marketing and finance side . |