Example sentences of "but [conj] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | But where we feel the greatest pressure is in Cologne 's diminished capacity to launch major exhibitions . |
| 2 | But where we have competed , accidentally in one case , deliberately in another , we 've been undercut by our rivals and we have n't got the job . |
| 3 | But where we are on Rotherhithe Road , it 's empty . |
| 4 | But where we find the law is deliberately being ignored or flouted , inspectors will be prepared to take firm enforcement action , particularly if serious risks to health and safety are evident or where what needs to be done is not new , i.e. where existing duties have simply been replaced by new legislation . ’ |
| 5 | But where we might have expected a bourgeois society logically to break it up or transform it — as indeed it was to be disintegrated later — the classic phase of bourgeois society reinforced and exaggerated it . |
| 6 | ‘ We may not be in the same league as Servette but where we score over most teams is with our spirit . |
| 7 | Well I 'm sorry but where we went it was great |
| 8 | But so we got it there . |
| 9 | ‘ Frau Fegel was saying the other day when we were playing Bach that our technique was good but that we had to learn to put feeling into our playing . ’ |
| 10 | But the important point is not that they would hesitate to do it , but that we would not be interested if they did . |
| 11 | But that we become committed to it as the way to save the country and the peace appears to me full of dangers . ’ |
| 12 | Like Heidegger , he understands that the root of the problem is not that we are born black or Jewish or rich or blind , but that we are born at all and much of his best writing deals with that most fundamental of displacements . |
| 13 | Our failure was not that we neglected the figures , but that we ignored the ideology … |
| 14 | Not that I 'm suggesting that we should be soft when children do wrong but that we just reverse the ratio of our attention and energy from the negative to the positive . |
| 15 | A sign of our having grown up is not just that we would n't listen to a Top Twenty single even if by any chance we could , but that we organize life so that we will never have to listen , by chance , to a Top Twenty single . |
| 16 | This is not to say that reading happens outside of the domain of politics , but that we ca n't easily conflate the two . |
| 17 | It may not be that we have become too sophisticated but that we are so confused we seek salvation even from out there . |
| 18 | It means that we are not only working to enable children to have access to information , knowledge , and literature ( with or without a capital letter ) but that we are also helping them to develop critical and independent thinking . |
| 19 | It is not in God 's best interest or ours that we should agree on everything , but that we should complement and complete one another . |
| 20 | Its importance , however , is not that we know when doubt becomes unbelief ( for only God knows this and human attempts to say so can be cruel ) , but that we should be clear about where doubt leads to as it grows into unbelief . |
| 21 | Our problem is not that we have the wrong answers to particular doubts but that we do not have the right attitude to doubt in general . |
| 22 | I read a book — I do n't know — some metamorphosist or something who went to live on an island — anyway , he believes , he says that there is something — that things are caught in light and space waves , that we do n't die , that it 's all still here , but that we just ca n't see it . |
| 23 | It also demonstrates that they have their root cause in godlessness ; so we should pray for our country , not that we should be saved from recession , but that we should turn back to God . |
| 24 | Chairman Sir Anthony Tennant rightly predicted that many of us would be too hard up to stand a round of drinks in the pub anymore — but that we 'd still fancy a cheap tipple at home . |
| 25 | And that 's the point of ‘ Back In Denim ’ — not that we should all go retro and rediscover the pre-punk '70s , but that we should do what Lawrence has done and just get back in touch with our own musical roots . |
| 26 | His agent , Giles Gordon of Sheil Land , had reacted to the sight of the manuscript with alarm , but was won around by reading it : ‘ He said that perhaps it should be cut a bit , but that we should aim to keep it to the same kind of scale . ’ |
| 27 | Indeed I am rather coming round to the view that the trouble last year was not that we failed to produce as good policies as our opponents but that we failed to produce policies for the issues the electorate was most interested in . |
| 28 | But that we should continue with this particular person . |
| 29 | Erm it 's quite clear there 's going to be no more new money for patient care and without that I do n't think we 're going to get the increase in quality of service but that we actually need . |
| 30 | We may feel that the argument exposes idiosyncrasies in the concept of knowledge but that we can get by very well both for practical and philosophical purposes with the surviving notion of justified belief . |