Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [vb -s] that [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She senses what he 's after : she ca n't exactly explain it , but she knows that he could take her away . |
| 2 | The ever-cautious Margaret Beckett is no longer on the left by any definition but her own , but she knows that she can not win the votes of a majority of MPs , let alone constituency members , without reminding them of her leftwing roots . |
| 3 | Parker says unequivocally that the future of the mainframe lies with Open Edition MVS , but he says that we could see a new generation of mainframe-class systems based on multiple RISC processors , again based on a similar idea to the SP-1 and that this will be the natural place for AIX . |
| 4 | The act of writing can be difficult at times , but he predicts that he 'll soon become the first Parkinson 's Disease patient to abandon drugs altogether as he slowly leaves a life of disability behind him . |
| 5 | SunSelect does n't want to define exactly what integrate ( its word ) means or how tightly bound over time the products will become , but it seems that they will still be two separate things . |
| 6 | According to my sample of Hull University students , the dreams of Joseph , the Magi , and so on may have been literally true ( according to over half of those questioned ) , but it seems that it would be naive to conclude that they really believe that communications of this sort are still " possible " — that is , presumably they happened in the Bible by some unique divine intervention which will never be repeated . |
| 7 | But it seems that I can not rid myself of this fear of running short of money . |
| 8 | So I said erm if we say increase to five pounds now , they do n't have to , but it means that they 'll probably have a significant unit holding , you know , to compensate them . |
| 9 | This is probably a good idea , but it means that you may never know if the food you avoided was indeed the guilty party , because the child is likely to have outgrown the sensitivity by the time the food is eaten again . |
| 10 | This is unavoidable , but it means that you may get the impression that they are also used one at a time . |
| 11 | They 're not actually prepared to go in to diagnosing dementia which I think is very wise of them but it means that you could then get into a very interesting discussion about whether we 're talking about people with dementia or about people who are simply confused . |