Example sentences of "but it [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It 's a tremendous responsibility , and challenges all your skills and training , but it also depends a lot on gut instinct .
2 But it also offers a clue as to their ultimate demise .
3 But it also brought a smile to manager Brian Horton , and I was thrilled to bits for him because he 's taken a lot of stick over recent results .
4 ‘ The customer had a requirement for a stock of components but it also had a lot of outdated engines . ’
5 In part this was simply no longer necessary , but it also represents a shift of royal policy , and members of the family without an adequate endowment did not have the deficiency made good .
6 In part this was simply no longer necessary , but it also represents a shift of royal policy , and members of the family without an adequate endowment did not have the deficiency made good .
7 We can regard ( Ε ) as representative in two ways : it is representative of our method of analysis , but it also represents a pattern of linguistic change that is valid for all the mid and low vowels : /a/ , /Ε/,; and /α/.; ic
8 Not only does Orlando explore gender issues and sexual politics , in which Swinton is interested , but it also presents a sweep of family history , with which she can identify ; the family line stretching back through time , the ancient portraits in which one can see one 's own features .
9 This result encourages the conclusion that appropriate contextual cues must be present for satisfactory retrieval of the effects of the effects of initial conditioning ; but it also poses a number of further questions .
10 But it also raised a number of important questions , which are now addressed :
11 But it also meant a lot of brances had been washed down and the river has a lot of snags anyway .
12 But it also requires a distribution of the resources for propaganda and persuasion which ensures that the power to influence our minds is distributed roughly in accord with the degree of diversity of opinion within society .
13 But it also reflects a tension within post-Thatcherite ideology between conservatism and neo-liberalism .
14 The club was to nearly kill the magazine as its losses accumulated , but it also provided a link with the United States which was to snap as the magazine moved towards Little Englandism , or Little Londonism .
15 As with de Santillana 's innovatory essay Kemp 's book not only offers new ways of understanding the history of science and the history of art but it also raises a host of historical and historiographical questions .
16 Brough in the East Riding of Yorkshire not only won several first prizes in the North-Eastern Railway 's own competition , but it also won a prize of £10 offered by a London weekly paper for the prettiest station in Britain .
17 But it also has a duty to contribute towards shaping a struggling new South Africa .
18 To adopt the Copernican system entailed a rethinking on matters of biblical interpretation , but it also involved a reconsideration of what was meant by terms like corruptibility .
19 But it also prompted a doubt .
20 This is more important with softer cutting like geraniums and fuchsias , but it also makes a lot of difference with roses .
21 I like the subject , and I like the composition and so on , but it just loses a bit because of the lack of sharpness so a five for that .
22 Walpole got full environmental approval , but it already has a state prison , and local residents were successful twice last year in lobbying the legislature to reject bills that would have made the land available for the harbour clean-up .
23 I started on the full golf tour , but it soon became a choice of golf or my family .
24 At first he may look funny chatting away silently but it soon becomes a bore .
25 It can not be compared with the ‘ big six ’ national brewers ( Allied , Bass , Courage , Watneys , Whitbread , and Scottish and Newcastle ) , and it is significantly smaller than the main ‘ regional ’ brewers ( i.e. Greenall Whitley and Boddingtons ) , but it nevertheless retains a market niche as a regional brewery specializing in distinctive , good quality beers .
26 Salgado 's photo-essay opens a window onto a world that seems authentically antique — as far off as when the Pyramids were being built — but it presumably touched a nerve with editors because it is also a parable of greed with global relevance .
27 As Lindblom has pointed out , however , it is by no means wholly destroyed , since ‘ [ m ] onopoly weakens responses to popular control , but it neither eliminates a response or leads to a perverse one …
28 But it suddenly took a flier and I knew I was in trouble .
29 This is a great advance over the rate achieved by earlier machines , but it still allows a routine lookahead of only four moves .
30 All right , Clare never admitted it and I ca n't prove it , but it still seems a betting certainty . ’
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