Example sentences of "[adv] but [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is death-haunted , and it discernibly mourns the , the old ways which Horace valued all his life , and to which , again and again , his verse pays retrospective tribute , until at last he all but confesses that the old ways never were and the good place has not yet been . |
| 2 | You go to sleep quickly enough but find that you wake frequently during the night . |
| 3 | When he asked me if I played I admitted that I had done so but insisted that I really was very bad . |
| 4 | They agreed that he had a discretion under the statute whether or not to do so but said that he was not justified in refusing if the result was to frustrate the policy of the Act of Parliament . |
| 5 | One particularly cold winter I gave in but stipulated that I must n't be around when it happened . |
| 6 | But his career all but ended that August day in 1967 when the MCC announced he 'd been suspended from bowling suspected of throwing for the rest of the season . |
| 7 | The question , as one senior American diplomat says , is whether the Somalis are prepared for a UN trusteeship in all but name that may drag on towards the end of this century . |
| 8 | In so saying , Fortescue had all but admitted that Henry V had been ahead of his time . |
| 9 | To make swifter unity on West German terms more attractive to East Germans , Mr Kohl has all but promised that their savings will be converted , over time , from Monopoly-money Ostmarks into rock-ribbed D-marks at the ridiculously unrealistic rate of 1:1 . |
| 10 | But even if they are qualified and on your establishment we can not but insist that they have a substantial teaching load as well , and I really do n't think that is any way to run a library … |
| 11 | Polarisation in Israel there certainly is , but if one applies the same broad definition of ‘ moderate ’ and ‘ extremist ’ to the Israelis as one does to the Palestinians , one can not but conclude that precisely the reverse situation prevails among them , that it is their Jibrils and Abu Musas — or religious fundamentalists in the Hamas mould — who hold sway . |
| 12 | Although members may doubt the validity of the procedure , one can not but agree that every possibility is given for the cryonic patient to experience minimal cellular injury , prior to eventual freezing . |
| 13 | On the other hand , the law can not but recognise that police investigation plays a crucial role in the criminal process and it therefore seeks to regulate it . |
| 14 | So long as we think that good must be identical with some one natural property we can not but suppose that all good things have some such property in common . |
| 15 | On receipt of Gaskell 's temperance rhymes , he wrote : ‘ I have read your temperance rhymes with much pleasure and can not but think that they must do good ’ ( 1840 ) . |
| 16 | Yet when she looked upon him she could not but believe that his sincere eyes could tell no lie . |
| 17 | She liked him still but felt that the familiarity of his uninvited arm about her shoulder called for backing-away tactics . |
| 18 | A kindly man who is trying to nudge Mr Karimov away from repressive measures , Mr Zakhidov admitted that the government apparatus was as corrupt as ever but suggested that the president himself was clean . |
| 19 | I wanted to confess to her once but balanced that against the need to be loved by her . |
| 20 | A Phillips & Drew spokesman said that his organisation uses search very rarely but thought that this could well change in the future , especially through the influence of his firm 's parent company , the Union Bank of Switzerland . |
| 21 | The government remains committed to Green Belt protection , conservation of agricultural land etc. but states that ‘ there is , therefore always a presumption in favour of allowing applications for development having regard to all material considerations , unless that development would cause demonstrable harm to interests of acknowledged importance ’ . |
| 22 | Tongs can be used just as effectively but remember that the larger the barrel , the bigger the curl . |
| 23 | I pointed out that people liked to have something to sit on but promised that I 'd leave him plenty of scope for pacing , which was the way he did his thinking . |
| 24 | The current artistic director , Iain Reekie , agreed that a broad redefinition of 7:84 was underway but denied that there was any break with the past , preferring to describe the new direction as ‘ a progression made out of necessity ’ . |
| 25 | On Sotheby 's activities in Berlin he was candid about the difficulties experienced by this ‘ very interesting experiment ’ so far but felt that the company could build on the pool of new private ( West ) German buyers that had emerged from the sales . |
| 26 | Penny Junor does not think this decision has been taken yet but believes that the second option is possible . |
| 27 | The bitter stench mingled with the odour of putrescent flesh and he almost retched again but found that there was nothing left to bring up . |
| 28 | Day-to-day cooperation between police forces must move to a new level of efficiency to allow European citizens to move freely but to ensure that drugs and arms can not . |
| 29 | For me it is one of those quite special moments in life , not at all knowing what lies ahead but trusting that the future of each one of us lies in the hands of god . |
| 30 | She still saw John occasionally but felt that he deliberately kept a barrier between them , although the way he looked at her belied his stilted conversation . |