Example sentences of "[noun sg] but [that] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would have to bite back my angry words — that better men than he had driven the jeep but that I knew he would share their fate . |
| 2 | I told them that there was no doubt in my mind but that I wanted to be a paratrooper . |
| 3 | He then answered her gently , saying that he did not know that particular poet but that he knew so-and-so and so-and-so from Italy . |
| 4 | As Wildavsky ( 1975 , p. 42 ) states : ‘ It is not so much that traditional budgeting succeeds brilliantly on every criterion but that it does not entirely fail on any one that is responsible for its longevity . ’ |
| 5 | Wilkins also told magistrates that he had n't deliberately tipped his drink over the bar but that it had been an accident . |
| 6 | It came as some comfort to me when I was about to leave Dowayoland that the chief of my village said that he would gladly accompany me back to my English village but that he feared a country where it was always cold , where there were savage beasts like the European dogs at the mission , and where it was known there were cannibals . ’ |
| 7 | Erm you know I like Georgian and I like a lot of other architecture but that I think has got tremendous character . |
| 8 | ‘ We know from Sweden that they play with a lot of spirit and determination but that they play fair as well . ’ |
| 9 | Aristotle said something very interesting in that extract from the Politics which I quoted earlier ; he said that women have a deliberative faculty but that it lacks full authority . |
| 10 | There is no question but that they granted planning permission for Killingholme . |
| 11 | In my judgment there is no question but that there has been a source of income in the deposit of money , and at any rate there has been an addition to a source of income here . |
| 12 | The court has been told that that order has not been formally served upon the mother , but there is no question but that she knows of its existence and its terms . |
| 13 | You have the blood of the Wolves of Tara and there is no question but that it makes you a Wolfprince . ’ |
| 14 | She hesitated while searching for an answer that would not betray the fact that she longed to remain in Stella 's place but that she feared for her own emotional state . |
| 15 | Brown and Kulik ( 1977 ) were struck by the fact that people were generally able to answer this question without difficulty , the important point being not that they remembered the assassination but that they remembered apparently irrelevant details such as where they were and what they were doing when they heard the news . |
| 16 | I explained how it was that as a child I had been told I was an eidetiker but that it had meant nothing to me . |
| 17 | Our experience within the Metropolitan Police area is not that the police are suspicious of medical intervention but that they recognised — µespecially since the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 covering treatment of detained persons — that independent and effective medical intervention in police custody is in the interests of justice . |
| 18 | Few there be , are there few that be saved , well what does the bible say about this , first of all it teaches abundantly clearly that all may be saved , God is not partial , God has no favourites , he does n't love you more than he loves any body else , he does n't love me more than he loves you or you more than me , he does n't love you more than he loves ah any other racial group or any other ethnic group , he loves us all the same God so loved the world that he gave his only son Jesus Christ , here in his love , not that we love God says the apostle but that he loved us , the old testament profit reminds us that he has loved us with an ever lasting love , who , this was one of the hang ups that the Jewish nation had , they thought that they were the cats whiskers , he chose them , but he in fact did n't love them any more than he loved the , the hitites , the parasites , the gergasites and all the other ites , he loved them all the same , God is not partial in his love because he is love , if there was any body that God did not love he would actually cease to be God because love is not something that , that God does , you and I do it no matter how loving you are , or how loving you think you are , you are not love , you choose to love somebody and you love them , there are times when that love goes very thin sometimes , perhaps because of events that have happened , it can actually come to an end where that love dies , you withdraw your love God ca n't do that , God loves us as we 've said with an eternal love , a love that will go on throughout the endless ages of eternity |
| 19 | It has been suggested that Greek was not the native language of the author but that he wrote in the universal language of the day which was Greek , while thinking in his own language which was probably Aramaic . |
| 20 | It was n't that she wanted to work in a sex shop but that she needed work of some kind . |
| 21 | The point , though , is not that his poetry exceeds the truth but that it fails to keep up with the truth , since it can not fully express the Friend 's merits : No one was ever taken in by Shakespeare 's disclaimers of ability , and few people will imagine that , whoever the Friend was — if indeed there was a real-life Friend — Shakespeare has failed to do justice to him ; if anything , rather the opposite . |
| 22 | What is theoretically and politically interesting and puzzling is not that it has been defended by the powerful and the better-off sections of the community but that it has been so widely accepted by those who suffer as a result of its continuance . |
| 23 | The problem is not that parents want to spike the afternoon but that they do not think . |
| 24 | The prosecution accepted that the notebook proved Mr Thompson had been involved in the distribution of obscene material , a charge the countess had levelled at him earlier in the trial but that he had denied . |
| 25 | It should not be assumed from these statements that they do not move at all-they can be quite active at high tide by night but that they remain within the same general area of shore . |
| 26 | The natural way to interpret the EPR experiment is not that it shows up the incompleteness of quantum theory but that it manifests the falsity of naive locality . |
| 27 | He concluded that not only had the respondents agreed negatively not to sell other petrol but that they had agreed positively to keep their garage open for the sale of the appellant 's petrol at all reasonable hours throughout the period of the tie . |
| 28 | Dulcie Howes , who wrote that comment to me , had told the Cape Town critic Denis Hatfield at the time that John would never really be a dancer but that he had ‘ such a remarkable eye for balletic pattern , an imagination so vivid , and such an ear for music in relation to movement ’ that she was certain he would make a choreographer . |
| 29 | He simply said that he did not know how the M.P.s would react in his favour but that he counted on me to work with him . |
| 30 | It 's more than likely that I 'll ask them to publish that we know there 's a message but that she has n't delivered it and wo n't talk . |