Example sentences of "but [verb] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew it must in theory , but to see it happen was still a lovely surprise . |
| 2 | She tried to recall his face , but got it mixed up with the actor , Edward James Olmos . |
| 3 | There was nothing for it but to pretend it had all been as Aunt Emily would have wished it to be . |
| 4 | Such a development would avoid the unnecessary replication of contracts , but to implement it requires the necessary political will to exist in Europe . |
| 5 | But change it does , and there is no better barometer of that change than what is censored , by libraries as well as by other institutions . |
| 6 | If you do not feel the tinkling , repeat the hum but make it lower in pitch . |
| 7 | They accept the goal of an enterprise economy , but want it tempered by social concerns , with a place for worker-ownership . |
| 8 | On Oct. 20 the ANC and PAC excluded AZAPO from the convening committee of the conference , but invited it to participate in the meeting . |
| 9 | There was the public humiliation of being dropped from the side ; the autocratic style of managers , who were themselves as afraid and insecure as their players ; the refusal to let good players use their natural talent to play , forcing them through repetitive training ‘ systems ’ and naïve ‘ game plans ’ ; the petty jealousies of the players , their hierarchies , and childish pranks ; the fear of the new signing , who has to be included at the expense of an old friend ; the view of a match from ‘ the inside ’ when you know a team-mate does not want the ball but wants it to look as if you will not give it to him . |
| 10 | When I talked to members of the 1964 pie committee in 1986 it was still not certain if and when this pie would appear , but appear it did as the l988 ‘ bicentenary pie ’ . |
| 11 | But has it made Greenlanders happier ? |
| 12 | ‘ But has it occurred to you that you are totally off-target ? ’ |
| 13 | All this community policing stuff is all very well , but has it worked ? |
| 14 | Olson adopted a public choice methodology but used it to produce striking anti-pluralist criticisms in the tradition of elite theory . |
| 15 | The treatments that were thus superseded have been touched upon in Chapter 2 , but suffice it to say that there was general and unqualified relief from both doctors and patients that they had passed . |
| 16 | This is all I shall relate about Charlotte 's circumstances in order to protect her anonymity , but suffice it to say , I decided to play along with her idea of aromatherapy being simply a pleasant way to relax — indeed , you do not need to be ill to enjoy the benefits of aromatherapy massage . |
| 17 | Boring to cite them , but suffice it to say one remembers them , like your PS re birth certificate being ‘ all part of the service ’ . |
| 18 | If we printed details of the case it would make her identity too plain to the authorities but suffice it to say that she was detained with some others for celebrating a ‘ banned person ’ — Nelson Mandela . |
| 19 | I wish that I had time to go more deeply into the Government 's failure to tackle the root causes of crime in our communities , but suffice it to say that neither unemployment nor lack of a decent home is an excuse for crime . |
| 20 | Not sure what to expect but suffice it to say I found it worthwhile and stimulating |
| 21 | Erm , and if if I can just , we will Treasurer and ourselves , be reporting to you in more detail on this , in the appropriate areas , but suffice it to say , that the government are accepting the need for further investigation on some of these issues , to look at some of them in the light of the national B U D report , on superannuation and pension arrangements generally , have nevertheless agreed that individual authorities ought to have some more discretion , and the compensation regulations that I mentioned earlier , is one example of that . |
| 22 | I wo n't go into all the grim details , but suffice it to say that when he laughed too much at one of his own jokes with his mouth full and a Chinese mushroom shot out of his nose … |
| 23 | ‘ I can not give any indication on which companies we are meeting but suffice it to say that one is trade and the other two venture . |
| 24 | But gear it to stay between 2000 and 4000rpm and it soars away . |
| 25 | Tanya Lake has just passed PE2 , first time as with all her exams , but says it came as no surprise to her when her audit partner at Chantrey Vellacott told her that her contract would not be renewed . |
| 26 | Sun currently offers Insignia Solutions Inc 's SoftPC emulator , but says it has ‘ had demand for accelerated versions of that . ’ |
| 27 | Sun Microsystems Inc , which takes 70% of Cypress ' current generation of Sparc 2 products for its existing workstations and servers , was at the roll-out to endorse HyperSparc , but says it has no plans , as yet , to use the 64-bit technology . |
| 28 | In its second report on the BCCI affair , the select committee makes no recommendations on compensation but says it believes the report of the inquiry held by Sir Thomas Bingham demonstrates conclusively that the Bank of England failed to discharge its supervisory duties in respect of BCCI . |
| 29 | DEC says this did n't allow it sufficient time to evaluate the proposals but says it supports all such unified Unix efforts and promises to make its position clear this week . |
| 30 | But hope it does n't happen . |