Example sentences of "but [adv] that [pers pn] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not the case that he neglected domestic issues — least of all in the period 1963 – 65 — but rather that he saw them within the larger framework of France 's relations with the world . |
| 2 | It was not that the family did not make her comfortable or spare any expense to see that she had the clothes and servants she needed , but rather that she found their way of life , their attitudes , their conversation , humour , tastes and ideas completely alien to everything she was used to . |
| 3 | Not for sustenance , but so that she had something on which to focus her attention while she thought about her response to him . |
| 4 | The point for Kojak will not be the relevance of the information , nor the nature of it , but merely that he has it and others do n't — that 's what makes it valuable and Kojak a computer stud . |
| 5 | She told us that she made some toast , but not that she ate it . |
| 6 | It is dangerous to simplify law , but our understanding is that to convict someone of a serious crime like theft , we normally have to prove not only that they committed the alleged act , but also that they knew it was wrong . |
| 7 | I had tried hard to destroy all feelings of love for him , but now that I saw him again , I could not stop myself loving him . |
| 8 | But now that I have I can sense him as a personality much better than his biscuit-rich brother . |
| 9 | Afterwards Fogarty admitted : ‘ I thought a North-West win would never come for me , but now that it has I 'm a happy man . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ But now that you mention it , it could be the Special Calf-Skin Carry-On Bag . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ But now that you mention it , I think I 've discovered something very odd going on around here . ’ |
| 12 | He would have preferred it had their arguments led directly to immaterialism , and showed not merely that we do not know what qualities material objects have , but indeed that they have none , or even that there are no such objects . |