Example sentences of "[vb pp] but it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does take time , about two hours for each member of staff when preparation and writing is included but it has been an investment that has repaid the school with great dividends . |
| 2 | It has impressed but it has to have the right tools if it is going to provide the safety that councillor referred to and the saving of life which was referred to by councillor . |
| 3 | The two separate Minutes may not necessarily be related but it does suggest there may be more in the Cup 's name that has hitherto been appreciated . |
| 4 | I do n't need to erm elaborate much more Okay , the give it , give it a mechanical structure , well that does n't necessarily apply to some of the things that we 've done but it does to other parts and if you 're gon na discuss somebody 's model , think about it in the real world . |
| 5 | The civic culture may be weakened but it has not collapsed . |
| 6 | If you 've got an idea or a message to send it has to be encoded in some way then there 's various mediums or media by which it can be transmitted but it 's got to be decoded by the receiver for the idea or message to be understood , and there 's some kind of feedback mechanism potentially from the receiver to the sender . |
| 7 | ‘ Asking the wrong question ’ or ‘ irrelevancy ’ tells one that an error has been made but it does not tell one whether the error is jurisdictional . |
| 8 | Chart 13 shows Mr Moore 's findings : in the successful sample the average ratio of long-term debt to assets was 62.4% after the LBO had been made but it fell to 37.6% by the third year as assets were sold and debt paid off . |
| 9 | Linguistic analysis may distinguish cases where meaning is not effectively conveyed but it remains unconcerned with what is meant by an utterance ; structural linguistics is not an interpretive study . |
| 10 | ‘ Laughing when you should be crying ca n't be helped but it sends other people the wrong signals , so they may be shocked . ’ |
| 11 | It is not quite the setting the founders of the game envisaged but it has something to be said for it . |
| 12 | Only the one chosen background material has been used but it has been presented at various distances and angles . |
| 13 | I think at the moment the it 's the Scottish theory , not proven but it looks promising . |
| 14 | Four weeks later — as a foetus — the child is recognisable as such : it is still very small and is not fully formed but it has a head , mouth , eyes and nose and the limbs have fingers and toes . |
| 15 | After the publication of Gratian 's Decretum and its wide dissemination , which is illustrated by the large number of manuscripts in different medieval libraries and individually owned by various bishops and scholars , not only could more detailed work be undertaken but it initiated a new epoch in interest in the declaration of law by the pope . |
| 16 | More than half thought the school had explained but it seemed to be in the past , a one-off opportunity and not an on-going process . |
| 17 | Again , it is limited but it shows that an audit failure is three times as likely to occur in the first two years after a change in auditor as in subsequent years . |
| 18 | It can be snorted'' or injected but it does not vaporise easily and is not suitable for inhaling or smoking . |
| 19 | It would appear that an obligation of confidence may arise in relation to information which is overheard but it seems that this will only be the case where the recipient has used surreptitious means to put himself in a position to overhear the information . |
| 20 | The Tchaikovsky was decently played but it lacked the passionate intensity that the score asks for , if not demands . |
| 21 | After what seemed like ages we popped out of the cloud and confirmed our dead-reckoned position as overhead the airfield of Vila Real , where we would have landed but it had no avgas . |
| 22 | He said the brakes were worn but it had not contributed to the tragedy . |
| 23 | The pathogenesis of this finding is not known but it appears to be unrelated to any effect of the diabetic state on platelet prostacyclin receptors as prostacyclin binding appears to be normal in diabetic platelets ( Shepherd et al , 1983 ) . |
| 24 | Of his education little is known but it seems likely that his family engaged a private tutor for him — he may have also have been a private fee-paying pupil at the West of England School for the Deaf at Exeter . |
| 25 | The aetiology of these fibrotic conditions is not known but it seems that in overlap conditions immunosuppression is of value in suppressing fibrosis in and around the biliary tree . |
| 26 | we 'll show you now how to put on a pressure bandage for severe bleeding and then we 'll put the film on and you can see the whole lot again , okay , so just be in the room if you just push and push and push on the window and er the hand has gone through the window , right , and there 's no glass imbedded but it 's cut right across the palm and the reason that we show you this one is because the artery that feeds all these fingers comes and the thumb comes up in an arch like that okay , so the artery comes down , up in an arch across the palm of the hand , so the fingers and thumb all get a blood supply , so when you cut the palm of your hand there is a lot of blood pumping out , okay , so what 's the first thing I 'd tell her to do ? |
| 27 | A trade union or union official calling its members out on strike is therefore protected but it has been said to be arguable that an individual striker has no protection against a claim that he uses unlawful means when he withdraws his labour because this situation does not appear to fall within section 13(1) . |
| 28 | Caroline had disappeared but it had been shown that it was nothing to do with him . |
| 29 | The modern town is scarcely worth a detour but the church is distinguished for having a very fine and elaborate Romanesque portal ; it has been heavily restored but it remains worth seeing . |
| 30 | The charge has not even been proved but it left him 12 per cent behind Paul Tsongas in the New Hampshire primary . |