Example sentences of "but it [vb -s] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The manual working class may not be divided by social origin , but it remains divided by industry , region , housing tenure and other factors , which are not politically irrelevant . |
| 2 | They 've tried to put a plaque there but it gets stolen . |
| 3 | But it has dragged its heels on implementing a training scheme . |
| 4 | The service is short of 369 lawyers , but it has received 517 inquiries about its own articled clerk and pupillage scheme launched in May . |
| 5 | Unemployment may well have fallen since 1987 , but it has increased a great deal in the past year . |
| 6 | But it has distinguished alumni : Billy Crystal , who talked between the Oscars , and Oscar contenders Bette Midler and Nick Nolte among them . |
| 7 | But it has remained at levels comparable to those of the 1960s . |
| 8 | If it has loving owners who can afford central heating , this breed presents no problems , but it has remained largely outlawed by the various cat societies . |
| 9 | The whole controversy was surely settled by Coleridge in Biographia Literaria ( 1817 ) , but it has remained a hardy perennial in critical studies of Wordsworth . |
| 10 | But it has remained as puzzling to modern historians as it was shocking to contemporaries . |
| 11 | The thirty-two-bar form was pervasive between the wars , but it has remained important since — even in rock . |
| 12 | In Scotland , concern has been expressed over the implications of studio closures and job losses , but it has met with soothing words from the BBC 's executives and from its political masters in government . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But it has kept its head down in recent years because of a huge $4 billion corporate debt and a slide in sales . |
| 15 | The danger has been a real one , but it has flowed entirely from distorted views about what the differences are , not from acceptance of difference as such . |
| 16 | But it has expressed its concern over proposals in the Treasury 's consultative document which seek to impose similar formal and detailed requirements for control and communication on professionals , such as lawyers and accountants , as well as on banks and building societies . |
| 17 | Lyppard Grange is a listed building so the City Council ca n't have it knocked down but it has applied for a compulsory purchase order . |
| 18 | The role of the Pope is not discussed by Freud , but it has played a key role in the Roman Catholic and Protestant hostilities . |
| 19 | - British Rail issue a new timetable and you have a nasty suspicion that they have juggled it around so that they have deleted a few trains and cut out that convenient late night one , and you look for your old timetable to check but it has gone with the wind . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's still in the blueprint stage , but it has gone further than just being a twinkle in the eye , ’ said finance man Duncan Whyte . |
| 21 | And we do provide you with sales literature to say well actually strange to say but it has gone up recently it is only fifty eight pounds a week . |
| 22 | ‘ We tried to save money by building economically , but it has cost us more in the long run . |
| 23 | THE deregulation of television in Italy has brought viewers more sport , more often than perhaps in any other European country but it has caused a tremendous row among the broadcasters and the political power groups who back their various causes . |
| 24 | It is a simple point , but it has caused certain distress . |
| 25 | And er fertilizers we s tell lo still sell loose and packet them ourselves but it has altered . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | His discipline , his dedication , and his pursuit of excellence may not have made him the most charismatic of world class players , but it has made him one of the most respected . |
| 28 | I have nothing but admiration for those hardy woodturners who have put the clock back a few hundred years and are making furniture with their pole lathes , but it has made me more than ever aware that the wood lathe has changed very little over the years . |
| 29 | The Black Country Development Corporation has begun proceedings to buy the pub but it has made no public statement giving its reasons . |
| 30 | But it has made us aware of the crusted , jewel-bright variety of Latin America behind things that more often lump its nations together . |