Example sentences of "but it [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Doing discourse analysis ’ certainly involves ‘ doing syntax and semantics ’ , but it primarily consists of ‘ doing pragmatics ’ .
2 No-one really knows how it began , but it nearly died in the 1940's .
3 Boston did not ignite the recombinant-DNA controversy but it vigorously seized the torch and raised it to national and worldwide visibility .
4 He also throws away too many key phrases : ‘ This Triton of the minnows ’ is a magnificent epithet for Sicinius but it here gets lost and although in the great banishment-speech Mr Dance 's body-language is good ( as he hurls his coat to the ground in fine disdain ) it is significant that the directors resort to an echo-chamber effect on ‘ There is a world elsewhere . ’
5 We both suspected that it could not last , but it even survived the Big Bang when the leisurely practices of the City — short days , long lunches , and three-day weekends — supposedly ended .
6 Not classic Stones , but it sure beats the recent Pavarotti bash .
7 But it utterly prevented permanent victory .
8 The emphasis of woman-centred methods on particular ways of articulating personal experience also makes it highly socially specific , but it rarely recognizes this .
9 This species grows quite large in the wild at up to 20cm , but it rarely achieves such proportions in the aquarium .
10 Here and there a regular path of some animal helped them but it rarely ran in one direction for long and they were unwilling to lose contact with the water which they would eventually have to cross .
11 But it rarely happens that way .
12 The Black Death began the long process of decline for many , but it rarely wiped out an entire village at a single blow .
13 The telson is present in the embryos of certain insects ( Fig. 41 ) , but it rarely persists as a discrete region ; it is evident , however , in the Protura , while traces are found in other insects .
14 A local candidate at variance with the national campaign may please the press but it rarely wins the people .
15 At times Levitation attempt to musically shock but it rarely works , ‘ Squirrel ’ has a weird keyboard break which fits in as much as George Bush would at a peace benefit punk gig , but at least they try to bemuse .
16 I suppose the general aim is to get a huge Hollywood star , a singer , and perhaps a home-grown character , but it rarely works out like that and sometimes the most unlikely combination can really work .
17 Slovenia announced on June 17 that if the customs war intensified it would employ its own customs officials , but it reportedly backed down after a threat of direct action by the FEC .
18 Not only does this make it difficult to test the theory empirically , but it also creates problems regarding recommendations for intervention .
19 Not only does this result in uncertainty about the future of projects funded through Making Belfast Work but it also creates inter-departmental friction and runs counter to the findings of the government scrutiny report of funding of voluntary agencies , which said funding should be tied to departmental objectives .
20 In the beginning , okay believed in and or whatever you wan na call it , but it also believed in other gods as well , except he was the chief god , he was number one god as it were and he 's the one you got to follow .
21 But it also helps you to discover the fascination and beauty of birds and their habitats , from gardens to RSPB reserves and special places in other countries .
22 Now there are occasionally criticisms from members that there is too much concentration on the elite end of sport in the Sports Federation in this instance the R Y A but what is important about the is an effort to produce a very high standard as a finished product so to speak to go to the Olympics but it also helps to concentrate minds on the bit that is missing before and help to recycle everybody 's concentration into the training area and Rod has just been talking about the year of youth and of course it follows on very naturally in a post- olympic year to launch that year of youth .
23 Well it seals it but it also helps to erm give you some purchase you see for
24 Society tells them they 're rubbish , because they ca n't find jobs , but it also tells them that they are better than the blacks .
25 It does a thorough job of not only testing each part of the hard disk but it also saves any data on the disk while doing so by reading all usable tracks into memory before reformatting the track and then writing it to disk again in the same place — provided it was usable .
26 We had chosen our visit to coincide with the full moon , but it also coincided with a period of maximum solar flare activity , and on every clear night the Lights treated us to a spectacular show in green and red .
27 But it also coincided yesterday with a pledge by Mr Egon Krenz , the party leader , that there ‘ can not and will not be an East Germany without a Communist Party . ’
28 This can reduce weight but it also constitutes drug-taking , for which you may face a lifetime ban .
29 But it also led to her first public performance .
30 This helped to prevent a price slump but it also led to ‘ butter mountains ’ and ‘ wine lakes ’ which were expensive to store .
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