Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] but [that] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wilkins also told magistrates that he had n't deliberately tipped his drink over the bar but that it had been an accident . |
| 2 | What is theoretically and politically interesting and puzzling is not that it has been defended by the powerful and the better-off sections of the community but that it has been so widely accepted by those who suffer as a result of its continuance . |
| 3 | The point , though , is not that his poetry exceeds the truth but that it fails to keep up with the truth , since it can not fully express the Friend 's merits : No one was ever taken in by Shakespeare 's disclaimers of ability , and few people will imagine that , whoever the Friend was — if indeed there was a real-life Friend — Shakespeare has failed to do justice to him ; if anything , rather the opposite . |
| 4 | Specificity means that not only is a function lost or impaired after damage to one part of the brain but that it survives damage to other parts of the brain that , in turn , produces other effects . |
| 5 | As Wildavsky ( 1975 , p. 42 ) states : ‘ It is not so much that traditional budgeting succeeds brilliantly on every criterion but that it does not entirely fail on any one that is responsible for its longevity . ’ |
| 6 | You have the blood of the Wolves of Tara and there is no question but that it makes you a Wolfprince . ’ |
| 7 | I explained how it was that as a child I had been told I was an eidetiker but that it had meant nothing to me . |