Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] that [pron] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Could 've been , but nothing to suggest that it was : her prints were all over the car and nobody else 's . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ That photo might not show that the prince was there , ’ he said , ‘ but everyone knows that he was . ’ |
| 3 | The Leader of the Opposition claims that he has been a consistent supporter of the Common Market for years , but everyone knows that he was a consistent and bitter opponent of it for many years . |
| 4 | I went around being nice to children for a while , being a sort of modern Pied Piper , but I learnt that they 're a manipulative lot and crazy for money , literally crazy for it , so I gave them the elbow . |
| 5 | But I knew that it was time to leave , and we said goodbye to them on New Year 's Eve . |
| 6 | But I knew that it was no massive dental operation in progress but that the sluice itself was blocked by leaves , that the water going into the pipe which fed the turbine was at a minimum and that if I did n't get up and deal with the problem the turbine would shut down and the melin would be pretty cold in the morning . |
| 7 | Soon I , too , was very distressed , but I knew that it was going to be dead within a few hours , and I was helpless . |
| 8 | I did n't have the faintest idea how this girl could help me but I knew that she was going to try . |
| 9 | ‘ He was a prisoner in his own body , ’ Wyn said , ‘ but I knew that there was a man in there trying to battle his way out , ’ said Wyn . |
| 10 | But I knew that there were half a dozen eyes watching down their machine-guns . |
| 11 | I did not ask him why , but I sensed that it was because he knew the culprit . |
| 12 | ‘ A lot of love came over , but I sensed that he was restless , and anxious too . |
| 13 | Sussex is still working on its piece de resistance but I hope that we 're going to get erm what we hope to do together very , very soon . |
| 14 | That 's how serious we are and although Mr er has to give his little laugh but I hope that he is just as much serious er particularly now that the political realities are that we will have a way forward , of not only supporting the delivery and management of community education services in that particular area but a clear focus has now been given , hopefully after this amendment er has been carried to the education authority . |
| 15 | ‘ But I hope that there were n't any well-dressed men wandering around the railway line in Dresden last night . ’ |
| 16 | But I gathered that it was because of some kind of political dissent , his being a member of an unauthorized group that had held secret meetings . |
| 17 | As predicted , he was holding a bottle , but I saw that it was almost if not quite full . |
| 18 | The skill is in some danger of being lost , but I insist that there is so much fun and pleasure in it and the methods are so effective that it should never be allowed to die out . |
| 19 | It certainly would n't be against the ideological er ideas of the Party but I mean that it was an ideological , it was more practical cos it was , it was related the purification campaign of the Party , cos we know they 're having these campaigns |
| 20 | All this may seem a little behind the times to the modern generation and to feminists , but I recognize that it was the way of my mother 's and father 's world . |
| 21 | They 're just pure-intellect machines , as well all know , but I swear that it 's not out of humanizing sentiment that we give them female names and pronouns . |
| 22 | Not that I complained because I was having a great time with it , but I noticed that there were a few changes and when I went back to England from Mustique , that was probably the last time MainMan existed . |
| 23 | But I said that it is always a good sign when things go wrong before the night . |
| 24 | How we managed without all these aids — in fact by merely buying a coffin and getting on with it — I ca n't imagine , but I know that we were lucky to be living in the UK and not the US , where the open coffin , or at least one quarter open at the head end , is de rigueur . |
| 25 | But I know that they are secretly changing the negatives of the photographs . |
| 26 | I expect that experienced knitter will have tried most , if not all , of these but I know that there are lots of new knitters who have not . |
| 27 | But I know that there are some people here who find such an example hard . |
| 28 | I do not claim to be an expert on the detailed financing of particular aspects of railway work , but I know that there are many useful and worthwhile projects which British Rail could undertake . |
| 29 | I mean Preston is about twenty miles south of er where we are but I know that there are gardens north of where we are that do grow good peaches but what they do they cover the er plants during the early spring round about February time and they cover it with very fine ne net , that 's all they need to do with it just cover it up when the flowers are out , make sure that they lift it off every now and again to do the pollinating , get them set and then when the frosts have gone take the net off . |
| 30 | And for everybody whose joined after , I think it was last January , we make sure that there is a job description , and that they are given one when they join , and we keep on file erm , but I know that there are loads of people who have been here longer than that some people have got them and they are out of date . |