Example sentences of "the [noun sg] but it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The county council has to make up the remainder but it has already limited the amount it intends to spend . ’ |
| 2 | If there was a swell on the east side where the the grating but there was also a gully landing which you get into the gully but it had to be a very fine day to get into the gully and there was a derrick there er you could a crane there that you could take everything out of the boat but it had to be a very fine day to get into the gully . |
| 3 | ‘ We 're delighted to get the award but it came as quite a surprise , ’ said business director . |
| 4 | Immediate attempts were made to resuscitate her ; at one stage some electrical activity was restored to the heart but it proved of no avail . |
| 5 | Nihilist is the case but it risks confusion between Dostoevsky and Turgenev who may not have invented the word but certainly gave it very wide currency . |
| 6 | It seems necessary to remind de Man ( who claims that " deconstruction is not something that we have added to the text but it constituted it in the first place " ) of Todorov 's statement that de Man himself quotes in Blindness and Insight : |
| 7 | Melanie wondered if she would have to take a tray to the basement but it seemed they had their own gas ring down there and brewed up continually for themselves . |
| 8 | This had little to do with the computer but it did spur us into action . |
| 9 | Tbilisi have 48 hours to appeal the decision but it looks as if Linfield are back in the competition — and suddenly £100,000 better off courtesy of UEFA payments and television rights . |
| 10 | He was saved by the fact that only the wings of the glider struck the cable but it led to more than 250 households having their electricity supplies cut off . |
| 11 | ‘ Partly that has been caused by the recession but it has also been triggered by technological advances . |
| 12 | Then , if you like , you can do a little pantomime routine where you look behind you for the ghost but it follows you around until you finally find it , and then you can do a brief activity with the ghost , like walk around the room in ‘ follow my leader ’ style or sing a song such as ‘ My kneebone 's connected to my thigh bone ’ . |
| 13 | In between Wrexham had 98pc of the play but it counted for nothing . |
| 14 | The committee was divided over whether or not to proceed with the march but it agreed to send a delegation to Derry to consult the local people ; this meeting began on the evening of Friday 4 October and went on until 1 a.m. on Saturday . |
| 15 | I destroyed the parasite but it wounded me badly . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The Pro Q really gives some interesting tonal variations to the sounds generated by the preamp but it does smack of overkill . |
| 19 | One of the King 's companions tried to seize the apparition but it vanished . ’ |
| 20 | A shot in the dark but it had struck a target . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 … |
| 24 | The heating was on inside the car but it did little to drive out the chill that seemed to have settled in her bones . |
| 25 | This would at best have been a major irritant for an embattled leader of the opposition But it became worse than that . |
| 26 | Sorry about stopping the tape but it keeps on cutting out cos your microphone is absolutely shit . |
| 27 | We could turn up the movie but it does n't help . |
| 28 | If there was a swell on the east side where the the grating but there was also a gully landing which you get into the gully but it had to be a very fine day to get into the gully and there was a derrick there er you could a crane there that you could take everything out of the boat but it had to be a very fine day to get into the gully . |
| 29 | But it like , doubled the work but it looks |
| 30 | Oh I just wanted to ask you how to work the machine but it 's done now . |