Example sentences of "but it [adv] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every letter contains a message — it may confirm an order , complain about a late delivery or clarify a point — but it also does a great deal more . |
| 2 | It 's a tremendous responsibility , and challenges all your skills and training , but it also depends a lot on gut instinct . |
| 3 | But it also offers a clue as to their ultimate demise . |
| 4 | Investment business — grasping the nettle Investment business holds pitfalls for the unwary but it also offers a significant business opportunity |
| 5 | As Shalev ( 1981 ) points out , comparative analysis not only raises substantively interesting and important questions but it also offers a natural and fruitful avenue for the advance of the discipline as a whole . |
| 6 | Male hostility to the notion that women could assume active roles within the social and political spheres of the movement in part prompted the guild , but it also endowed a jealously-guarded independence that enabled the guild to work outside the political boundaries of accepted cooperative practice . |
| 7 | But it also brought a smile to manager Brian Horton , and I was thrilled to bits for him because he 's taken a lot of stick over recent results . |
| 8 | ( As Table 8.2 will show , expenditure on education was higher in each year than the figures shown in Table 8.1 , but it also had a declining trend as a proportion of social product up to 1983 . ) |
| 9 | The full-length private coach was furnished in the fashion of a ‘ club car ’ in the Pullman Service , but it also had a medium-sized galley and a fully equipped bar , with a chef and two porters to look after our needs . |
| 10 | ‘ The customer had a requirement for a stock of components but it also had a lot of outdated engines . ’ |
| 11 | It was a celebration of life , but it also had a sobering effect . |
| 12 | In part this was simply no longer necessary , but it also represents a shift of royal policy , and members of the family without an adequate endowment did not have the deficiency made good . |
| 13 | We can regard ( Ε ) as representative in two ways : it is representative of our method of analysis , but it also represents a pattern of linguistic change that is valid for all the mid and low vowels : /a/ , /Ε/,; and /α/.; ic |
| 14 | It is worth considering in more detail for this reason alone , but it also represents a categorical summary of the pluralist perspective on regionalism . |
| 15 | In part this was simply no longer necessary , but it also represents a shift of royal policy , and members of the family without an adequate endowment did not have the deficiency made good . |
| 16 | It is , though , more overtly apparent when he attempts to limit the damage to the atmosphere of the conversation caused by McKendrick 's accusation of his insincerity when praising Stoke university : Rather than make a straightforward denial , Anderson tries to diffuse the tension with humour by playing on the literal sense of McKendrick 's accusation. his display of urbane wit brings about some laughter from McKendrick but it also elicits a sardonic comment which is a valid observation on Anderson 's character . |
| 17 | But it also involves a descriptive account of human nature and institutions . |
| 18 | Not only does Orlando explore gender issues and sexual politics , in which Swinton is interested , but it also presents a sweep of family history , with which she can identify ; the family line stretching back through time , the ancient portraits in which one can see one 's own features . |
| 19 | This result encourages the conclusion that appropriate contextual cues must be present for satisfactory retrieval of the effects of the effects of initial conditioning ; but it also poses a number of further questions . |
| 20 | But it also raised a number of important questions , which are now addressed : |
| 21 | However , we believe that not only is such a stance disingenuous , but it also promotes a fundamentally flawed political strategy and reproduces naive notions of academic objectivity . |
| 22 | There was more than a touch of class disdain in their attitude , but it also signified a political distance , an understanding that the parliamentary representatives had softer views and a broader idea of their responsibilities than the mere enactment of their supporters ' prejudices . |
| 23 | But it also reflected a different kind of population ; certainly , none of the parents of my school friends in St. Albans could be described as intellectuals . |
| 24 | But it also reflected a considerable degree of confidence . |
| 25 | But it also recognises a series of emotional and psychological needs concerned with bolstering self-image and obtaining self-respect relative to others . |
| 26 | ‘ But it also meant a lot of brances had been washed down and the river has a lot of snags anyway . |
| 27 | The rise of ‘ chivalry ’ meant a stricter code of manners ; but it also meant a new snobbery . |
| 28 | But it also requires a distribution of the resources for propaganda and persuasion which ensures that the power to influence our minds is distributed roughly in accord with the degree of diversity of opinion within society . |
| 29 | But it also fulfils a wider social purpose in setting standards for the markets and in discouraging aberrant behaviour . |
| 30 | But it also plans a franchised Harry Ramsden 's in Jeddah , Saudi Arabia , for the autumn . |