Example sentences of "but [vb past] [conj] it [modal v] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Major said yesterday that the economy was ‘ coming out of recession now ’ but admitted that it could not be proved . |
| 2 | They both were astonished that so far no indication of trouble had come from the town common ; but reckoned that it would not be long now before it did , for a few escapers from the castle had been glimpsed running in that direction . |
| 3 | ( The precise scope of executive privilege was unclear : the only Supreme Court ruling on the doctrine — the 1974 decision against Nixon — found it to have a basis in the Constitution but adjudicated that it should not provide an impediment to criminal prosecution . ) |
| 4 | In so doing he permitted Isis to reveal the name to her son Horus but ordered that it must not be told to anyone else . |
| 5 | Environmental groups such as Transport 2000 welcomed the announcement , but stressed that it would not produce major changes in the transport balance . |
| 6 | At a special conference of the PPS on Dec. 26 , convened to draft the party 's election manifesto , Alia gave a keynote speech in which he admitted that the party needed " fresh thought " and " a new concept to realize its socialist goal " , but asserted that it would not " abandon its Marxist ideology " . |
| 7 | The semi-annual World Economic Outlook of the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) , published in May 1990 , indicated that the rate of expansion of the world economy in 1990 , was likely to be the lowest since 1982 , but suggested that it would not be as severe as 1982 when world output rose by only 0.5 per cent . |
| 8 | At a Conservative party meeting on 28 August , Amery noted that Horne ‘ on the whole agrees with me that we have got into a considerable mess and that the great thing is to extricate our people as soon as possible , ’ while Hailsham in his speech ‘ supported entirely what had been done but trusted that it would not last longer than two months — whereat loud cheers ’ . |