Example sentences of "[noun sg] but it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yvonne Harper-Wake , who puts scores of women through her Tums & Bums exercise classes , replied : ‘ Most people phoned hoping for a magic remedy but it does n't exist . |
| 2 | Now correlation , in a similar way , measures something similar to association but it gives you a bit more detail . |
| 3 | A poor attendance rate can signal condoned truancy but it needs to be used with other measures of attendance , and on a regular basis , to help schools to improve pupils ' attendance . |
| 4 | That improvement upset the old fifty-yard rhythm but it did n't much matter . |
| 5 | He was deathly pale and obviously still in the first shock of grief but it had taken him differently . |
| 6 | ‘ He played it into the side but it powered off again and he complained that his arms were hurting , so I took the rod back from him and landed the fish , ’ he added . |
| 7 | Paul was saying that I mean , they 're a hundred percent nomination housing the people who need the housing most are are n't the ones who who 'll be able to er , to use the and there 's no housing strategy on on er o o on the equity part , the the there might be , only a tiny bit , on on on the rent side but it does n't homes fo for the people who really need it , even if they 've got a hundred percent nomination flats ! |
| 8 | on that side but it 's got a little bit of black on it , do you reckon that 's anything to do with it ? |
| 9 | The idea that drinking nablabs was a seriously smart thing to do ant that hordes or women would subsequently fall at one 's feet probably looked great on a storyboard but it failed to impress the punters . |
| 10 | This is also due to the action of plaque but it takes longer and is harder to spot . |
| 11 | I destroyed the parasite but it wounded me badly . |
| 12 | One of the King 's companions tried to seize the apparition but it vanished . ’ |
| 13 | It may be that this relexicalized version has not been actually attested and , may never occur in the future but it acquires normality because it is relatively easy to conceive of a context for it . |
| 14 | We could turn up the movie but it does n't help . |
| 15 | It could do good but it does more bad |
| 16 | Shaw said : ‘ It 's difficult to work out his programme but it seems that he analysed his subjects and classified their attributes , their doings , and the major events in their lives by coded numbers . |
| 17 | This would at best have been a major irritant for an embattled leader of the opposition But it became worse than that . |
| 18 | Police said last night : ‘ He called to the driver to stop and stepped in front of the car but it carried straight on and smashed into him . |
| 19 | Jim Pike of the solar flair team says it 's very hot and bumpy in the car but it manages to keep on the road even with the road trains flying past solar cars are simple machines … the cells on top soak up the sun and the energy drives an electric motor … |
| 20 | The heating was on inside the car but it did little to drive out the chill that seemed to have settled in her bones . |
| 21 | Rovers enjoyed a heavy advantage in penalties before half-time but it did not do them a lot of good . |
| 22 | This does not necessarily ensure wide application of the research but it does provide various ‘ models ’ of development in different environments which increase the likelihood that , by identifying with one or another model , other schools adopt and adapt the work to suit their particular needs . |
| 23 | God knows , the threat of a changed will is a hoary old chestnut as a motive for murder but it remains a perfectly good one . |
| 24 | Sorry about stopping the tape but it keeps on cutting out cos your microphone is absolutely shit . |
| 25 | It has been changed by the influence of sociology and anthropology but it has not surrendered its distinctiveness to them . |
| 26 | It has the same written compass as the standard instrument but it sounds a minor third higher . |
| 27 | Dave also played the old fashioned curved soprano sax , which looks almost like a toy instrument but it sounded clear and forceful in his hands . |
| 28 | This unruffled progression fits perfectly the sort of chain of correlations of consequences which we disentangled at the start of this chapter but it does not seem to offer the prospect of the decisive determination of a particular result . |
| 29 | Like the ACAS report , the Scarman report sank without a trace but it had already fulfilled its function that of sapping the strength and momentum of the struggle . |
| 30 | The Pro Q really gives some interesting tonal variations to the sounds generated by the preamp but it does smack of overkill . |