Example sentences of "but it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Doing discourse analysis ’ certainly involves ‘ doing syntax and semantics ’ , but it primarily consists of ‘ doing pragmatics ’ . |
| 2 | No-one really knows how it began , but it nearly died in the 1940's . |
| 3 | But it nearly was not the perfect end for Mansell in Budapest . |
| 4 | tried sets of five but it nearly but you two two left over so that 's no good |
| 5 | and about fifteen of the erm eight , eight , five troop chasing after me , it was like our sister troop yeah , we were , there was three troops in our squadron , eight , eight , five , eight , eight , six and eighty , eighty , seven and then there was three squadrons and a regiments , there was nine troops there , so like , if it , basically it was your troop and nobody else , but then it was your squadron and , and anybody else and then the few times that I , on regiment it was your regiment and nobody else , like , we could touch you cos your our regiment but if you try and touch us , you can get fucking hell , but it nearly always come down to the troops , and the thing is eight , eight , six , only had , the first year that I was there we 'd only had about thirty people , fourth year there had I opposed like fifty , sixty and seventy , second year we were there we had about forty- five opposed to like sixty , seventy , eighty , and the third year there we had about fifty opposed like fucking seventy , eighty and ninety in a , in a troop , so we were always well out numbered and we were by far the most outrageous |
| 6 | Boston did not ignite the recombinant-DNA controversy but it vigorously seized the torch and raised it to national and worldwide visibility . |
| 7 | He also throws away too many key phrases : ‘ This Triton of the minnows ’ is a magnificent epithet for Sicinius but it here gets lost and although in the great banishment-speech Mr Dance 's body-language is good ( as he hurls his coat to the ground in fine disdain ) it is significant that the directors resort to an echo-chamber effect on ‘ There is a world elsewhere . ’ |
| 8 | We both suspected that it could not last , but it even survived the Big Bang when the leisurely practices of the City — short days , long lunches , and three-day weekends — supposedly ended . |
| 9 | Mm no but it even for a |
| 10 | I know but it even when it 's not foggy here it 's foggy at East Leek . |
| 11 | To have committed the heresy of being uncommitted to the right political dogma — or worse still being a political atheist may not mean the death penalty , but it sure is a heinous crime in the times we live in . |
| 12 | But it sure was a great place to grow up — you heard all kinds of stuff on the radio … ’ |
| 13 | Not classic Stones , but it sure beats the recent Pavarotti bash . |
| 14 | But it utterly prevented permanent victory . |
| 15 | A local candidate at variance with the national campaign may please the press but it rarely wins the people . |
| 16 | But it rarely happens that way . |
| 17 | Here and there a regular path of some animal helped them but it rarely ran in one direction for long and they were unwilling to lose contact with the water which they would eventually have to cross . |
| 18 | At times Levitation attempt to musically shock but it rarely works , ‘ Squirrel ’ has a weird keyboard break which fits in as much as George Bush would at a peace benefit punk gig , but at least they try to bemuse . |
| 19 | This species grows quite large in the wild at up to 20cm , but it rarely achieves such proportions in the aquarium . |
| 20 | I suppose the general aim is to get a huge Hollywood star , a singer , and perhaps a home-grown character , but it rarely works out like that and sometimes the most unlikely combination can really work . |
| 21 | The emphasis of woman-centred methods on particular ways of articulating personal experience also makes it highly socially specific , but it rarely recognizes this . |
| 22 | The telson is present in the embryos of certain insects ( Fig. 41 ) , but it rarely persists as a discrete region ; it is evident , however , in the Protura , while traces are found in other insects . |
| 23 | The Black Death began the long process of decline for many , but it rarely wiped out an entire village at a single blow . |
| 24 | Slovenia announced on June 17 that if the customs war intensified it would employ its own customs officials , but it reportedly backed down after a threat of direct action by the FEC . |
| 25 | This can reduce weight but it also constitutes drug-taking , for which you may face a lifetime ban . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 ’ . |
| 28 | Something vulnerable in her manner brings out an element of sadism in the way the long final act teases her endurance ; but it also makes the denouement extremely touching , and the part lies well for a voice that has managed Janacek 's Capture as well as Verdi 's Violetta . |
| 29 | Compared to the influence of personal partisan prejudice the influence of the media on economic perceptions was small but it also increased towards the end of the campaign , especially amongst Labour readers of right-wing papers . |
| 30 | No doubt both tendencies arose in part because the voters themselves became more strongly partisan at that time ; but it also seems likely that television became more strictly impartial ( thereby offending both Labour and Conservative partisans more ) while the press became more stridently partisan ( Chapter 6 ) . |