Example sentences of "[adj] but that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that I 'm suggesting that we should be soft when children do wrong but that we just reverse the ratio of our attention and energy from the negative to the positive . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The industrial tribunal found that the reason for the dismissals was that the managing director was strongly anti-union but that none of the four could show that the reason for his dismissal was his own union membership or activities . |
| 5 | I mentioned earlier that a particular meaning might be made accessible but that it does not necessarily follow that it will be acceptable . |
| 6 | The real grist of Watchdog 's story is not that all fishtanks are dangerous but that there are tanks on the market made from glass that is far too thin . |
| 7 | The charge which the historian must bring against him is not that he was vicious but that he was timid , selfish and worst of all lazy . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It may not be that we have become too sophisticated but that we are so confused we seek salvation even from out there . |
| 11 | We warned at that time that the underlying quality of these products was questionable but that they might nonetheless enjoy success because quality or lack of it is not apparent in the external appearance of the products . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | Minister of Finance Abdul Rahman Mahmoud Hamdi , in London on April 18 for talks with United Kingdom Overseas Development Minister Lynda Chalker , appealed for aircraft for use in the Sudanese relief effort ; the UK authorities said that they regarded an airlift as unnecessary but that they would release British equipment and spare parts for the repair of the Sudanese railway system . |
| 14 | He had said he thought he must have been eight but that he did n't really know . |
| 15 | It is all too easy to blame the unions , to argue that they must know perfectly well that the effect of excessive wage settlements is inflationary but that they nevertheless still seek and get them . |
| 16 | Psychiatrist John White suggests that no marriage is problem-free but that there are three options open for dealing with a troubled marriage . |
| 17 | In summer it is not so dense but that I can find the blackbird wherever it sings among its branches and not in Winter so agile but that its changing patterns are conspicuous against the sky , its sound an appreciable susurration using the harp strings of the wind . |
| 18 | The actual tensile strength of ordinary glass and ceramics can be quite high ; the reason why we do not make motor cars , for instance , from them is not that they are weak but that they are far too brittle . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The trouble with most of the ‘ modern Christs ’ is not that they are anti-Christian but that they are unhistorical . |
| 21 | The weakness here is not that the assumptions are incorrect but that they are incomplete . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Your mum said you were n't liking the Smoke much better but that it was alright . |
| 24 | ‘ Frau Fegel was saying the other day when we were playing Bach that our technique was good but that we had to learn to put feeling into our playing . ’ |
| 25 | Moran was neither rich nor poor but his hatred and fear of poverty was as fierce as his fear of illness which meant that he would never be poor but that he and all around him would live as if they were paupers . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Many firms find that the implementation process is not merely complex but that it amplifies strains in the internal politics . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | To cut a long story short , he concluded that most of these effects were ambiguous but that there was one effect which could , in principle , be quite powerful in raising the level of real expenditure and income : for a constant nominal stock of money , a fall in the price level will raise the real money stock which may , in turn , exert significant downward pressure on the rate of interest . |