Example sentences of "but [conj] it do " 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 | It seemed improbable that the fine hot weather should continue right through the summer , but so it did for most of us . |
| 3 | He also says that the nickel content does not , for all practical purposes , make any difference to the hardness , but that it does make it more stain resistant . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I mentioned earlier that a particular meaning might be made accessible but that it does not necessarily follow that it will be acceptable . |
| 7 | Chuck House , senior vice-president of Informix , said exclusive distributor , Ascii Corp , had limitations in terms of strengthening Informix 's relationships with Japanese firms , but that it does want to continue its relationship with Ascii . |
| 8 | For quite a long time the prevailing view among economists had been that money does not affect the relative prices of commodities , but that it does determine the overall price level . |
| 9 | But that it does satisfy a need for a vast number of , of people who may be rather younger and poorer than er we who sit here . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | The problem is not just that buckminsterfullerene forms , but that it does so with such efficiency . |
| 12 | One torso is so weathered that little can be said but that it does seem to show the same primitive technique as Nikandre 's . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Israel 's great sin was n't that it did not do good things — but that it did not obey the Law , the Torah . |
| 15 | The worse criticism , of course , is not that Carpenter 's Gothic was cheap nor that most of the styles chosen were imitative but that it did no good . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | No one had a drink before the food arrived , but once it did the wine flowed freely : the best lambrusco , the best fortana and finally the moscato , a sweet , white , generally fizzy wine made with selected muscatel grapes . |
| 22 | A song may be at number one , but if it does n't ‘ feel ’ right for Radio 1 , it wo n't be playlisted . |
| 23 | But if it does , I 'm against it . |
| 24 | I hate asking favours of anyone , especially you , but if it does come to that — if your sister gets the police on my trail , do you think you could let me know ? |
| 25 | Most modern aquarium equipment no longer has an earth wire , but if it does , you must make sure you wire it into the earth terminal . |
| 26 | Like everyone else , I 'd played the ‘ It wo n't happen to me , but if it does … ’ game , and had envisaged , in the case of breast cancer , dying intact , yet there I was , rushing round the taverna looking for a scalpel . |
| 27 | But if it does n't happen there is no way Lewis will be deflated . |
| 28 | ‘ But if it does n't happen there is no way Lewis will be deflated . |
| 29 | In the best teams , this sort of thing rarely happens , but if it does , a collective effort is made to put it right . |
| 30 | Counselling may reveal turmoil and bring it to the surface , but if it does , that turmoil will have existed long before the commencement of the counselling process . |