Example sentences of "[noun pl] but they [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Committee 's report thus concluded that these practices were necessary in modern circumstances but they suggested that , because of haphazard evolution , the practices lacked coherence and the system should therefore be regularized and checked . |
| 2 | Most parents will readily describe these features but they say that the problem behaviours get in the way of appreciating their child 's good qualities . |
| 3 | Labour objectors did not change their minds but they feared that the loss of the bills could undermine the future existence of the Government which was depending on Liberals and Welsh and Scottish Nationalists for its survival . |
| 4 | Even the populists raised similar issues but they discovered that there was greater mileage in personal attacks on the individuals involved in planning . |
| 5 | ‘ Scandinavians now accept that there is no evidence of damage to forests but they claim that fish lakes and rivers suffer from the additional acidity , ’ said its Annual Report for 1976/7 . |