Example sentences of "[adj] but [that] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Reid thought that the multiplier of 12 years was low , but in that he differed from some of his brother judges who thought that it was high but that it should not be interfered with . |
| 2 | But what they were getting at was n't so much that the coverage was favouring one party over another but that it simply did n't relate to them , the actual voters in the constituency . |
| 3 | I mentioned earlier that a particular meaning might be made accessible but that it does not necessarily follow that it will be acceptable . |
| 4 | The critical consensus about The Sycamore Tree was that it is good when it is light and witty but that it ‘ sinks under a mass of elaboration ’ ( Allen 1958:500 ) , and that Brooke-Rose 's effort to add depth to her characters succeeded only in getting them ‘ thoroughly bogged down ’ ( TLS 1958:557 ) . |
| 5 | The suggestion that conventionalism reduces surprise must assume , then , not that surprise is unfair but that it is undesirable for some other reason : that it is inefficient , for example , or imposes unnecessary risks , or frightens people , or is otherwise not in the general interest . |
| 6 | Its report , which appeared in September 1970 , recommended that the structure of the Dip.AD be left relatively unchanged but that it be supplemented by the introduction of four-year sandwich courses , ‘ directed more specifically towards certain categories of industrial and professional design practice ’ . |
| 7 | Remember that Dickens was writing before Freud had begun to uncover the immense complexity of the human personality , before William James 's pioneering work on consciousness , which showed that our conscious mind is not solid but that it runs like a stream , swirling endlessly around symbols , associations from the past ; always moving , never at rest . |
| 8 | The popularity of Wade 's sculpture was probably due not only to the fact that it was always comprehensible but that it was both ennobling and restrained in equal measure . |
| 9 | Your mum said you were n't liking the Smoke much better but that it was alright . |
| 10 | It showed that not only was Wood 's circle feasible but that it definitely seemed to exist , at least within the limitations of maps and acetate overlays . |
| 11 | He knew that the universe was complex but that it obeyed certain rules , although , she supposed , he would n't have used the word ‘ obey ’ with its implication of conscious choice . |
| 12 | Many firms find that the implementation process is not merely complex but that it amplifies strains in the internal politics . |
| 13 | To assert that conduct is orderly is , from our point of view , to imply that it is directed by a sense of social propriety — that not only is it non-random but that it is both generated and limited by prescriptions and the possibility of sanction , in particular the sanction of expressed disapproval . |
| 14 | Part of the problem that we got back to when we looked over the issues is that what 's happening in the private sector is not just that it 's growing but that it 's very much in an unplanned fashion . |
| 15 | The major criticism of this approach to describing organisations is not that it is inaccurate but that it ignores all the informal and interpersonal aspects of organisations and concentrates too heavily on the formal aspects of work organisations . |
| 16 | Yesterday things looked pretty hopeful but that it would n't take too long to get the whole thing sorted out , but I must admit things seem to be escalating and getting a lot worse now . |
| 17 | When nuns make vows of celibacy they are saying that something is true for them in particular but that it does not belong to them . |
| 18 | A weakness in any of them does not mean that faith is illegitimate but that it is an easy prey for doubt , as later testing may show . |
| 19 | The worse criticism , of course , is not that Carpenter 's Gothic was cheap nor that most of the styles chosen were imitative but that it did no good . |