Example sentences of "but it [vb -s] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most recent , and it 's quite exciting , is to use magnetic resonance imaging to look at erm nuclei in the body and to see what they 're doing and where they are , and that 's going to be very exciting but it involves having a very very large magnet in which one puts a whole patient all at once . |
| 2 | There is a way to make neutrinos decay without producing light — you can achieve almost anything in this sort of physics , as long as you are willing to do nasty things to pretty theories — but it involves conjuring up yet another new particle . |
| 3 | ( 1981 ) ; but it remains to explain why latent inhibition procedures should apparently be capable of producing overshadowing but not blocking . |
| 4 | But it remains to ask again why the state 's policy of pursuing the common interest always fosters the political interest of the ruling class . |
| 5 | But it remains to ask if Poulantzas can explain this ‘ choice ’ , ‘ policy-decision , , or ‘ process ’ without treating classes , or even their members , as subjects . |
| 6 | This conception of individuals as determined by social practice is familiar enough , but it remains to see how Althusser fills it out . |
| 7 | The manual working class may not be divided by social origin , but it remains divided by industry , region , housing tenure and other factors , which are not politically irrelevant . |
| 8 | This suggestion is not implausible but it remains to specify the mechanism by which the content of a memory might act to determine its retrievability . |
| 9 | But it does vary from year to year . |
| 10 | This is not an unduly difficult task but it does demand a little effort . |
| 11 | An extra 10 hp a side may not be a mind-blowing power increase but it does represent 330,000 foot lbs per minute and , at its increased maximum weight of 3800 lbs , the new model would , with one engine out , climb at 180 ft/min , or almost 300 ft/min at lighter weights . |
| 12 | Scientific knowledge is not proven knowledge , but it does represent knowledge that is probably true . |
| 13 | But it does recognize the need for the educators to find ways of helping them cope . |
| 14 | But it does offer security and freedom from disturbance . |
| 15 | As yet this technique has limited spatial and temporal resolution but it does offer a means of looking at human brain activity in a fairly safe way . |
| 16 | Often , invoice discounting is more attractive to the larger companies that can manage their own sales ledgers , but it does expose the factor/invoice discounter to greater risks because it is not so closely involved in the client 's affairs . |
| 17 | History provides us with no guide as to how all this will work out , but it does remind us of the need for sensitivity when dealing with powerful social forces . |
| 18 | It does n't actually have to tell me that I am ‘ earthed ’ but it does remind me that I am . |
| 19 | But it does lead inevitably to ignorance , for you can not understand what you deliberately chose to have no truck with . |
| 20 | This is an over-simple account , but it does bring out the essential point that , at some stage , substances have to be transported across a membrane against a concentration gradient . |
| 21 | Now merely saying that is not evidence of any kind ( and may merely annoy those AI workers who program in languages other than LISP and do use flow-charts ) , but it does bring out something of the opposition between modules and levels that is the heart of the last part of this paper : flow-chart boxes are essentially separated from each other in ways like those that separate the modules of programs ; but program levels are not like that . |
| 22 | Erm but it does bring you back with things . |
| 23 | Well for a start it 's not a joke , but it does bring a wry smile in the aftermath of Ireland 's crunching victory over England last week . |
| 24 | Well , a magnum sounds splendidly sophisticated , but it does hold as much as two ordinary bottles . |
| 25 | It has the characteristic of extremely high strength for its weight , considerably higher than aluminium , but it does create special requirements in the building phase . |
| 26 | This does not disqualify the character from honourable knightly status — think of Tristram and Yseult , or Lancelot and Guinevere — but it does create a degree of tension : the service of a knight to another man 's lady wife is , as the Lancelot–Guinevere tale shows , the classically subversive element within the knightly ethos . |
| 27 | But it does secure what is surely the central and most important point , by removing the possibility of unintended consequences for the libraries . |
| 28 | Unemployment has fallen in the county , although not as fast as in other parts of the region , but it does appear that some 800 previously unemployed Kent people have gained work as a direct result of the Tunnel . |
| 29 | But it does appear that asking people what things mean is not necessarily the best way of tapping their semantic knowledge . |
| 30 | Nothing is known as to what has happened in Switzerland , but it does appear that in the United States , after a long course of litigation , the attempts have failed . |