Example sentences of "but [conj] it do [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A further situation might arise , however , in which the defendant alleges belief in consent on the basis of the victim 's consent to penetration but where it did not occur to him that she might not understand the nature of the act , although the risk of this was quite obvious . |
| 2 | When nuns make vows of celibacy they are saying that something is true for them in particular but that it does not belong to them . |
| 3 | It is recommended that the British government uses Article 20 to rehabilitate on-farm broadleaved woods in the LFA in conjunction with advice from the conservation authorities , but that it does not implement any provisions for afforestation because of the role of the Forestry Commission and private forestry companies in the UK . |
| 4 | I mentioned earlier that a particular meaning might be made accessible but that it does not necessarily follow that it will be acceptable . |
| 5 | As Wildavsky ( 1975 , p. 42 ) states : ‘ It is not so much that traditional budgeting succeeds brilliantly on every criterion but that it does not entirely fail on any one that is responsible for its longevity . ’ |
| 6 | His view of this " delirious " material ( note the etymology of délire ) is that it breaks the rules of language ( grammar , syntax , semantic cohesion ) but that it does not mean nothing . |
| 7 | The problem is not just that buckminsterfullerene forms , but that it does so with such efficiency . |
| 8 | Israel 's great sin was n't that it did not do good things — but that it did not obey the Law , the Torah . |
| 9 | Preliminary observational studies of the self-instructional material provided for library orientation showed that the material provided was of help to new users , but that it did not , alone , supply adequate orientation information . |
| 10 | On the more difficult topic of the Pauline corpus I concluded that the evidence was equally compatible with a widely differing set of authors or a single unusually versatile author , but that it did not support the view that four epistles stood out as uniform by comparison with all others . |
| 11 | In the first phase he confirmed that when meat powder ( an unconditioned stimulus ) was placed on the dog 's tongue a natural reflex occurred and the dog salivated ( an unconditioned response ) , but that it did not salivate solely in response to a buzzer sounded for 30 seconds , a neutral stimulus . |
| 12 | Suppose , however , that God decided that the universe should finish up in a state of high order but that it did n't matter what state it started in . |
| 13 | Erm er I was concerned when my Noble Friend said that he 'd looked up Hallsbury but that it did n't contain the right words , er er I rather wonder whether he looked up so to speak the right version or the last version . |
| 14 | A song may be at number one , but if it does n't ‘ feel ’ right for Radio 1 , it wo n't be playlisted . |
| 15 | But if it does n't happen there is no way Lewis will be deflated . |
| 16 | ‘ But if it does n't happen there is no way Lewis will be deflated . |
| 17 | But if it does n't ease off , or if it gets worse , you must see your doctor . |
| 18 | ‘ But if it does n't ? ’ asked Charlotte in a flat and weary tone . |
| 19 | I 'm in America with someone that I like , you know , sort of , but if it does n't work out , that 's too bad . |
| 20 | But if it does n't kill lots of people , we do n't consider it a disaster , or if you , the media , decide not to report it , it is n't a disaster . |
| 21 | But if it does n't hold , at the very end what they 'll do is break in on it ‘ and now the special report from Dan Rather in Baghdad , and then you see Dan Rather and when he 's done there 's a commercial and then it goes back to whatever they were doing on tape . |
| 22 | But if it does not exist , it does not exist ; it does not have the property " of non-existence . |
| 23 | I do not know if elegans shares the interesting ‘ primitive ’ features of livingstonii — it is certainly quite similar in appearance — but if it does then perhaps we have here a group of fish descended from ancestors which stopped off on the way to the rocks , and which did not need to evolve the specialisations needed in the more-densely populated and competitive atmosphere of the rocky zones . |
| 24 | Thirdly , the Act clearly adopts as the test of danger either ‘ the greater risk of harm ’ or ‘ the risk of greater harm ’ : an elephant may not in fact be very likely to get out of control and do damage , but if it does so , its bulk gives it a great capacity for harm . |
| 25 | But if it did n't and they were n't forthcoming , then erm |
| 26 | and you 'd fit them together but if it did n't fit you 'd have to do something to you 'd have to get them from som , from somewhere else . |
| 27 | Ah but because it does n't mean this now . |
| 28 | It fails to establish a trust not because it is unclear , but because it does not conform to the pattern for a trust : it is a direct not a mediate wording . |
| 29 | To confuse the order of these levels or to omit one or more of them is dangerous — not because our faith is then invalid but because it does not rest on the strongest available foundations . |
| 30 | We agree that the specific algorithm we used wold have been inappropriate if we were interested in examining seasonal or short-term changes in primary production , not because the algorithm does not include a grazing term but because it does not include terms for irradiance and quantum efficiency . |