Example sentences of "but that [pron] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that we get a balance right between the amount of regulations an and the cost of it but that it is in a sense , effective and and the plea I would make to my honourable friend when he considers this P I A prospectus and what should be done and wh to what extent the government feels it should support it , is that what we actually want is not a specific requirement that says you 've got to have this much , that much capital erm and so on , but that there is a function , there is a regular audit trail , there is a a regular , annual look at the figures , the accounts of all these intermediaries , er and firms where the difficulty has been er in the past . |
| 2 | My agent explained that it was a highly secret document , but that he had a friend in the London office who might be able to sneak out a copy . |
| 3 | reported that a representative from the Australian Division was not present , but that he had a message of greeting and good wishes from , with details of a meeting to be held in Australia . |
| 4 | It came as some comfort to me when I was about to leave Dowayoland that the chief of my village said that he would gladly accompany me back to my English village but that he feared a country where it was always cold , where there were savage beasts like the European dogs at the mission , and where it was known there were cannibals . ’ |
| 5 | All were careful to insist that ‘ free love ’ was not to be confused with ‘ libertine sexual intercourse ’ , but that it involved a combination of the aesthetic and spiritual sides of the human personality , with a frank and open attitude towards sex . |
| 6 | Of course , the rival may fight back , but the point is not that this type of calculation ensures a successful barrier to entry , but that it provides a way of assessing what it will cost the rival to surmount the barrier to attain cost leadership . |
| 7 | The child lay down ; then she watched the big fat woman undress herself , noticing particularly Mat she did not wear corsets like her mama , but that she wore a habit shirt , and one bodice petticoat and two waist petticoats . |