Example sentences of "but it [vb -s] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The service is short of 369 lawyers , but it has received 517 inquiries about its own articled clerk and pupillage scheme launched in May . |
| 2 | The thirty-two-bar form was pervasive between the wars , but it has remained important since — even in rock . |
| 3 | Railway travel develops many interesting situations ; but it has created few more bewildering than those occasionally to be seen during the Russian famine , when a number of peasantry , weary of the Czar 's despotic rule and black bread , or no bread at all , came through England on their way to America , and clustered , apparently hopeless , on the platform at the Central Station . |
| 4 | It is a simple point , but it has caused certain distress . |
| 5 | Frank Smith 's ( 1971 ) seminal work , Understanding Reading , has been glorified and vilified perhaps more than any other book about reading , but it has spawned real excitement and self-questioning in teachers . |
| 6 | But it has made emotional and social demands upon family life which parents and children are all-too-often ill-equipped to bear . |
| 7 | Precise details of what has been achieved by the liaison remain a closely guarded secret but it has involved developing new methods of using medicinal drugs in the body and has already led to a contract with a major pharmaceutical company . |
| 8 | But it has become one of the big post-war economic success stories , with one of the world 's most open trading systems and a business environment not far behind Switzerland , Japan and west Germany . |
| 9 | But it has become difficult to convince those hypochondriacs who also happen to be cat owners that there is no danger . |
| 10 | We have already seen this statement in St John Ackers ' postscript to the 1890 Education Act , but it has become popular again ( Van Uden , 1981 ) . |
| 11 | He has resisted attempts to remove him from the Maine Road board in the past , but it has become clear that Lee 's intervention provided much greater pressure on him to step aside . |
| 12 | It might have moderated things at the margins , but it has done little to address or solve issues of economic decline , deprivation or inadequate housing in the cities . |
| 13 | But it has supplied this help without objection from Arab governments which , though alarmed at the prospect of Shia ascendancy in Iraq , want most of all to see Mr Hussein out . |
| 14 | But it has taken many years for such discoveries to be accepted and acted upon , especially when they conflict with public convenience and related commercial interests , as the sad story of tobacco promotion and consumption shows . |
| 15 | It was only 10 years ago that the prize-money was less than £80,000 , but it has taken giant strides forward and the future looks even brighter . |
| 16 | London has come to be my second home , but it has taken some time to get used to it . |
| 17 | But it has had limited success . |
| 18 | But it has upset some shopkeepers whose deliveries have been disrupted , and disabled drivers who say they ca n't get into town . |
| 19 | But it has proved costly and difficult to isolate receptors . |
| 20 | I do n't think we actually used any of them in the end but it has got that cinematic imagery to it . ’ |
| 21 | I was going to write to Long Tall Sally ca n't make up my mind if I should or I should n't but it has got those little |
| 22 | The council is the plaintiff , but it has brought this action to protect the interests of the residents . |
| 23 | To the second , yes , but it 's gone mouldy . ’ |
| 24 | I said all along , once you 've got a staff of twenty odd , we 've had a lot of injuries which we have n't carped on too much , but senior players have been out with injury but it 's given young players an opportunity . |
| 25 | An exact replica of one of them is being shipped to Armenia , right down to blackboards and chalk , but it 's taken top level agreement between Mr Gorbachev and Mrs Thatcher to make it happen . |
| 26 | use that but it 's got dirty now . |
| 27 | How I quite enjoyed it but it 's got deep bunkers . |
| 28 | It 's been like this over a number of issues ever since the children were small , but it 's got worse since they 've been teenagers . |
| 29 | He 's … he 's so possessive of her , always has been , but it 's got worse of late , and … and of course it 's getting on her nerves . ’ |
| 30 | Yeah , but it 's got worse and worse |