Example sentences of "but it do [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That Asian children are teased about their food may not seem very important in itself , but it does rather lead to the thought — if people eat food which is thought of as disgusting and unclean what are these people like ? |
| 2 | I do not want to get bogged down in a semantic quibble but it does rather look as though sociologists have just as much difficulty as anyone else in doing without the word ‘ profession ’ . |
| 3 | The new decision does not affect the artist 's ownership of the work of art itself , but it does effectively strip him or her of control over how , when and where it may be reproduced . |
| 4 | In view of the stringent financial requirements imposed on BR by the government this may be a little unfair but it does neatly encapsulate the views of many commentators looking at the likely impact of the Tunnel on the South East after 1993 . |
| 5 | As already implied , the content of the foregoing speculations on the source and scale of man 's capability for life enjoyment and all that it could mean is , of course , hypothetical , and in any case the development was spread over millions of years , but it does however provide a basis for thought which does not require the invocation of the supernatural . |
| 6 | Such confusion is largely a result of the difficulty many lawyers have when dealing with a highly technical field such as computer science but it does not stop there . |
| 7 | But it does not feel to them like real work and there is no financial reward and rarely any specific long-term achievable objectives which can be shared with others . |
| 8 | The use of a mode register reduces the number of operation codes required , but it does not eliminate the problem of an instruction being given operands of one format when it expects another format . |
| 9 | ‘ Ah , but it does not wind . |
| 10 | Education can equip people to fill these positions , but it does not control the expansion or contraction of the job market . |
| 11 | This may be temporarily quashing but it does not satisfy … |
| 12 | But it does not arrive in Salamanca until about one-thirty the next day . |
| 13 | This means that ideas can not be abstract , but it does not mean that they can not be general . |
| 14 | But it does not mean , ’ she said starchily , ‘ that one is totally without influence , or that propriety has been put in abeyance . |
| 15 | That is a pity , perhaps , but it does not mean that everyday language is bad ; it is imply the way of things that language is not alive unless it is vernacular , because the adornments and abbreviations are the adornments and abbreviations of human thought . |
| 16 | This criterion means that a great deal of fundamental science such as elementary particle physics or astronomy would not qualify for our support ; but it does not mean that we avoid contact with scientists working in these fields . |
| 17 | Man may be distinguished from the animal by his capacity for non-violence , but it does not mean that he has shed all vestiges of the animal in him . |
| 18 | The value of cash benefits to the poor should not be minimised or dismissed , but it does not mean that relative deprivation is removed . |
| 19 | But it does not mean that , with some ingenuity , you can not set a detective story , or almost any of its variants and successors , at some period in the past . |
| 20 | The word regular is very important here , but it does not mean without exception . |
| 21 | But it does not mean others can not come in . ’ |
| 22 | The whole series is a tribute to Shakespeare 's dramatic imagination , but it does not inspire affection . |
| 23 | The weather changes over the centuries , but it does not change in a specifically malevolent way . |
| 24 | This proposition may have a useful application in limiting some of the more pedantic rules of interpretation , but it does not exclude the application of a presumption or certain common-sense principles . |
| 25 | Pornographic eroticism , I will argue , is , therefore , to be condemned , but it does not function in quite the way some feminists have argued that it does . |
| 26 | But it does not suggest that any basic change in the traditional means of taking large numbers of soldiers to the continent was yet being considered . |
| 27 | For this simple reason : pornography shocks and disgusts decent people , but it does not tend to deprave and corrupt them . |
| 28 | The most common type of LPG gas is butane , but it does not vaporise — so therefore can not burn — at temperatures below about 4°C . |
| 29 | It can be snorted'' or injected but it does not vaporise easily and is not suitable for inhaling or smoking . |
| 30 | Naturalism as an aesthetic may work as a tool of catharsis — we may suffer with those we see suffering — but it does not illuminate methods for action after the catharsis . |