Example sentences of "but it [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No-one really knows how it began , but it nearly died in the 1940's . |
| 2 | Boston did not ignite the recombinant-DNA controversy but it vigorously seized the torch and raised it to national and worldwide visibility . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But it utterly prevented permanent victory . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The Black Death began the long process of decline for many , but it rarely wiped out an entire village at a single blow . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | But it also led to her first public performance . |
| 12 | This helped to prevent a price slump but it also led to ‘ butter mountains ’ and ‘ wine lakes ’ which were expensive to store . |
| 13 | The project of integration with which Brooke-Rose began provided sufficient material for ‘ four average , competent novels ’ ( Brooke-Rose 1977a:134 ) , but it also led to a frustration with available formal strategies which prepared the way for the radical change in direction her oeuvre was to take with Out in 1964 . |
| 14 | This defined heresy as any opposition to the Catholic doctrine of the sacraments , but it also specified that any preaching which took place without licence was to be deemed heretical . |
| 15 | But it also seemed that the Treasury had wanted to forget about the competition , as three days later Hall sent them a long and detailed reminder about its progress . |
| 16 | But it also left her economically and psychologically exhausted . |
| 17 | Greek civilization not only gave rise to philosophy but it also produced , in the fifth century BC , the first real historians . |
| 18 | But it also guaranteed Fields equal say in the running of the company , by the expedient of comprising the board of four directors . |
| 19 | Mellor 's office in life may have been the big attraction , but it also got in the way of a good time . |
| 20 | Michael Feist Countryside special sites could be in open countryside away from Government policies concerning sustainability , I wonder how Professor Lock would see the situation emerging whereby a local authority has allocated a certain amount of land in its local plan for development for industrial or commercial purposes , it 's tried to erm identify a broad range of criteria but it also identified special sites erm which will only be released in exceptional circumstances , that happened to be an open countryside and had the advantages that it may be a little close to the A one or somewhere similar . |
| 21 | The development of textile manufacturing in the fifteenth century was not only one of the most fundamental economic changes of the period , but it also took men away from farming , created a market for the sale of agricultural products and gave an incentive to the producer to grow crops and raise stock beyond the levels required for his own consumption . |
| 22 | This was done most dramatically and ruthlessly in Latin America , e.g. in Mexico under Juarez in the 1860s or in Bolivia under the dictator Melgarejo ( 1866–71 ) , but it also took place on a large scale in Spain after the revolution of 1854 , in Italy after the unification of the country under the liberal institutions of Piedmont , and wherever else economic and legal liberalism triumphed . |
| 23 | But it also symbolised the latest stage in her development . |
| 24 | But it also undermined his already fragile self-control . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | This was partly because each brand of typesetting machine tended to have a different way of preparing the bit-map , but it also had to do with the very nature of the technique : rotating the letters , making them larger or smaller , or altering them in any way involved a new bit-map . |
| 28 | But it also had implicit ones . |
| 29 | But it also had potential drawbacks , because the use of a church 's income , or part of it , to provide for members of a family could assume a disproportionate weight compared with religious observance . |
| 30 | ( 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 . ) |