Example sentences of "but [that] [pron] do not " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Lebanese delegation at the Middle East peace talks in Washington [ see p. 39119 ] informed their Israeli counterparts on Sept. 22 that Israeli airman Ron Arad was definitely alive , but that they did not know where he was being held . |
| 2 | What is notable about them is not that they are black , but that they do not have dogs . |
| 3 | Instead , we hold that species are real things , but that they do not have essences . |
| 4 | The problem is not that parents want to spike the afternoon but that they do not think . |
| 5 | Their weakness is not that they will not commit themselves to God but that they do not commit themselves to anything . |
| 6 | What is remarkable about the text-books ( which describe the chemical structure of the various chains in loving detail ) is not so much that they do not explain the discrepancy but that they do not even notice it ; nor are they apparently interested in the fact that the work of fracture for a material like Polythene or Nylon is at least a hundred times higher than it is for most of the thermosetting plastics . |
| 7 | The implication of all this is not only that weak businesses do worse in absolute terms , but that they do not even realize their own potential . |
| 8 | Has it occurred to the Minister that the problem is that there are plenty of young people camped out in the open air , but that they do not have any work ? |
| 9 | Our problem is not that we have the wrong answers to particular doubts but that we do not have the right attitude to doubt in general . |
| 10 | Is not the truth of the matter not only that the Secretary of State is doing nothing about the housing needs of the service men and women who will be made redundant , but that he does not even know the facts ? |
| 11 | At the time I believed that I surrendered completely to him but that he did not surrender completely to me . |
| 12 | The burden of Mustakimzade 's argument , then , is that Molla Yegan was a mufti but not the Mufti , that he , like any other had the power of and might give fetvas when the need arose , but that he did not attain the office of Mufti . |
| 13 | The following day he told a rally of factory workers that the parliament was " imposed , nominated and illegitimate " , but that he did not have a right to dissolve it . |
| 14 | The Appeal Court today ruled that the five-year term should remain , but that he did not have to serve the extra three months . |
| 15 | I said that did I share his belief I should not contemplate what I do , but that I did not share it . |
| 16 | I said that , did I share his belief , I should not contemplate what I do , but that I did not share it . |
| 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 | It is recommended that the British government uses Article 20 to rehabilitate on-farm broadleaved woods in the LFA in conjunction with advice from the conservation authorities , but that it does not implement any provisions for afforestation because of the role of the Forestry Commission and private forestry companies in the UK . |
| 19 | I mentioned earlier that a particular meaning might be made accessible but that it does not necessarily follow that it will be acceptable . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | His view of this " delirious " material ( note the etymology of délire ) is that it breaks the rules of language ( grammar , syntax , semantic cohesion ) but that it does not mean nothing . |
| 22 | Israel 's great sin was n't that it did not do good things — but that it did not obey the Law , the Torah . |
| 23 | Preliminary observational studies of the self-instructional material provided for library orientation showed that the material provided was of help to new users , but that it did not , alone , supply adequate orientation information . |
| 24 | On the more difficult topic of the Pauline corpus I concluded that the evidence was equally compatible with a widely differing set of authors or a single unusually versatile author , but that it did not support the view that four epistles stood out as uniform by comparison with all others . |
| 25 | In the first phase he confirmed that when meat powder ( an unconditioned stimulus ) was placed on the dog 's tongue a natural reflex occurred and the dog salivated ( an unconditioned response ) , but that it did not salivate solely in response to a buzzer sounded for 30 seconds , a neutral stimulus . |
| 26 | Penny Duce of the Poetry Library , who recently visited Lending Services said that the Library would be pleased to accept requests for books on BL forms , but that she did not expect to be borrowing material for SPL itself . |