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

No	Sentence
1	It assumes no previous security experience , but it assumes a familiarity with the PC , with DOS and with the elements of LANs .
2	But it assumes a dichotomy between nature and supernature that oversimplifies the theologies of the past .
3	Again , this design gives it only vague impressions of light and shade , but it allows the ostracod to collect a phenomenal amount of the illumination available in its dimly lit environment .
4	The distinction works only in part , at least so far as social work is concerned , but it allows the author to develop and use as a thread through the discussion , the historically gendered nature of the division between the so-called caring professions and professions such as medicine , law , and architecture .
5	This is very low , and would never be used in practice , but it allows an example to be shown in a compact diagram .
6	But it emphasised the point that the capacity to signal and the capacity to learn combine to make animal communication increasingly rich and complicated .
7	I looked nervously at her face , but it wore a smile , a reminiscent smile that I had n't seen before .
8	Such a figure may seem insignificant but it represented a strength of purpose and feeling which made the small groups men and women of courage .
9	It did not have for him the magnetic feel of the two letters which were folded into his pocket , but it represented the tease of curiosity .
10	‘ But it takes a bit of time to get used to other players and the way of things .
11	But it takes a bit quicker , yeah , yeah .
12	Your sweet , milk-sop charms may be attracting him now , but it takes a woman to hold him .
13	‘ Your sweet , milk-sop charms may be attracting him now , ’ she 'd said , ‘ but it takes a woman to hold him .
14	But it takes a lot to ruffle an XJ6 .
15	I 'd only gone say two weeks without it , but it takes a lot longer than that to actually sort yourself out , anyway … .
16	But it takes a lot longer than a year to get rid of a bad reputation .
17	So it goes south to Gath , but it takes the plague with it , together with an unearthly confusion and terror .
18	These are quickly broken down , but it takes the body longer to shed fatty tissue , so weight loss slows down .
19	But it takes the eye of an honest man to see it . ’
20	Critchley 's party-piece has the rounded phrasing , the well-turned punchline of frequent rehearsal ( it 's claimed that some of his fans can recite it back to him ) , but it captures the tone of the Tories in those days perfectly .
21	J : It 's alright , but it sounds a bit dated to me .
22	But it sounds a bit better .
23	But it sounds a lot more exciting than it is .
24	But it represents a compromise between opposing or contradictory interests not untypical of media policy .
25	But it represents a way of doing it which is not what the members of this Committee , of all three parties I suspect , want to do .
26	This may seem paradoxical , but it represents a gesture of adaptation .
27	That the Assembly was sovereign over the Council is true enough as a generalization , but it represents the conclusion of most modern interpretation , rather than the ancient theory .
28	He was only clear about the classification as he worked through the foundations of his pragmatism and metaphysics in the 1890s , but it represents the systematization of a set of views that he had been groping towards since the 1860s .
29	This meadowland or mead land was usually low-lying and damp for much of the year , but it produced an abundance of grass which was cut for hay .
30	There were a few diplomatic handshakes as the players left the field at the end , but it seemed a relief that an extra week lay between this Test match and the next , and it could only be hoped that work would continue behind the scenes to impress upon these cricketers , especially the more excitable ones , that the game does not deserve to be abused .