Example sentences of "but it [adv] [verb] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | It is clear that the role need not always be undertaken by a social worker , but it also seems clear that in situations of family complexity , or personal loss of morale , social workers have particular skills to offer . |
| 4 | Predictably , he tapped his nose again , but it immediately became plain that she had underestimated the man . |
| 5 | A mechanical bush-clearing company was called in , but it soon became apparent that machines could not accomplish all that was required , and labourers from other tribes were set to work . |
| 6 | But it soon became apparent that other people were also affected including injecting drug users , people with haemophilia , people who had received blood transfusions as well as heterosexuals who came into none of these categories . |
| 7 | But it soon became apparent that Britain still preferred little more than an effective interlocking system of treaties along the lines of the Treaty of Dunkirk : increasingly , if these were initiated , they would be little more than holding operations until the United States shared in the defence of Western Europe . |
| 8 | But it soon became apparent that the divisions between the French and English ran very deep . |
| 9 | The full extent of the tragedy was impossible to asses at first , but it soon became apparent that the number who were killed instantly was in excess of 70 . |
| 10 | This may have held great promise in its early years but it soon became divided and then fragmented , due largely , if not wholly to the same age-old misconception whereby the basis of the religion is the assumption of the existence of a completely undefined ‘ god ’ , in this case the ancient ‘ god ’ of the Jews . |
| 11 | But it soon became obvious that the proteins of the nutrient contained the correct chemical groups , and that the food molecules themselves were polymerizing and creating the capsule membrane . |
| 12 | Allan Lamb took over the captaincy and did his best , but it soon became clear that without Gooch they were nothing like the same team . |
| 13 | The main item on the agenda was future policy in Ulster but it soon became clear that another issue had become dominant . |
| 14 | In one demonstration my car was stopped at a hospital entrance but it soon became clear that much of the resentment was directed at what were seen as remote hospital authorities ‘ up there , . |
| 15 | Gradually she got used to thinking of Angel as Corrie , but it soon became clear that she would never be able to claim her as her own . |
| 16 | On my return to Burma in November 1945 I was Archdeacon of Rangoon , but it soon became clear that my main attention would have to be devoted to working for understanding and peace . |
| 17 | Fergie says : ‘ Finally something did happen , but it soon became clear that the Queen was just not capable of getting involved in emotional , personal problems — even though it involved her own flesh and blood . ’ |
| 18 | One publisher was interested initially , but it soon became clear that the book Denyer was proposing was n't one they wanted to market without the pulling power of a big name . |
| 19 | Slowing down , she listened in case they were in the middle of a talk too personal to be interrupted ; but it soon became clear that they were discussing the house and the various improvements that might be made once Europe had reached some kind of normality again . |
| 20 | Other speakers followed , but it soon became clear that she had spoken for ail present . |
| 21 | He remained with Champneys until 1880 , but it soon became clear that architecture would never be his chief preoccupation . |
| 22 | The HWIM system experimented briefly with this method ( Woods et al 1976 ) , but it soon became clear that such an approach was unrealistic . |
| 23 | They were not supposed to play a part in managing them , but it soon became clear that they would do so . |
| 24 | But it soon became clear that Washington was prepared to promise no more than a continuing exchange of views " to bring our respective viewpoints as close as possible " . |
| 25 | We published a lightning report , Save the Woburn Canova , quoting golden opinions of the statue from leading luminaries of the arts ; but it soon became evident that the chances of raising the necessary funds were very slim . |
| 26 | But it soon became evident that there were many kinds of interferon , all produced when cells were exposed to particular viruses but varying in their exact nature according to the cells which produced them and the species of animal from which the cells originated . |
| 27 | I was desperately seeking some sort of reassurance , some sort of comeback from someone , but it soon became plain that I was not going to get it from her . |
| 28 | The truth is flexible , white hot , but it soon becomes brittle if tempered with cold bullshit . |
| 29 | Comfort can be taken from hoping that her daughter will grow up into ‘ a brilliant and glorious human being ’ , but it soon becomes clear that , beneath her cool , confident exterior , Camille too is damaged and vulnerable . |
| 30 | But it soon becomes clear that rhino is keen on other things . |