Example sentences of "but [that] [pron] [vb -s] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says the ball is now in their court , but that he hopes to return to science with the company . |
| 2 | Kant does not think he is putting forward a doctrine on the basis of which ordinary morality can be criticised , but that he has formulated the principles by which all good people implicitly know they should , and in their hearts do , judge their conduct . |
| 3 | So deviation is a matter of degree , and at some indefinite point it becomes significant not that a writer has chosen x rather than y or z , but that he has chosen x at all . |
| 4 | He reveals that in fact he is Szendrey , but that he has had to change his name in order to escape persecution by the Communists . |
| 5 | When Roderigo , ‘ this poor trash of Venice ’ , leaves , Iago tells us that his plan is still vague , but that he intends to bring Othello to the point where surface and reality are so inverted that he will ‘ thank ’ Iago for making him an ass , In the event , Iago succeeds in making Cassio drunk , proceeds to ‘ put ’ him into an ‘ action ’ that — just like the tribunes ' manipulation — degrades him yet ‘ approves my dream ’ ( II.iii.58ff. ) — his fantasy or plan of success . |
| 6 | But that it does satisfy a need for a vast number of , of people who may be rather younger and poorer than er we who sit here . |
| 7 | Chuck House , senior vice-president of Informix , said exclusive distributor , Ascii Corp , had limitations in terms of strengthening Informix 's relationships with Japanese firms , but that it does want to continue its relationship with Ascii . |
| 8 | He also says that the nickel content does not , for all practical purposes , make any difference to the hardness , but that it does make it more stain resistant . |
| 9 | One torso is so weathered that little can be said but that it does seem to show the same primitive technique as Nikandre 's . |
| 10 | For quite a long time the prevailing view among economists had been that money does not affect the relative prices of commodities , but that it does determine the overall price level . |
| 11 | When will the Government realise that enlargement will not be acceptable just as a slogan for the Tory re-election campaign , but that it means saying now , and clearly , that the EFTA countries are needed in the Community and that early membership for central and eastern European countries , according to realisable targets , should be a priority to which we are committed ? |
| 12 | Latest word from the grapevine is that IBM Corp 's 3390-9 disk drive may be put back to June 1 or June 8 ( CI No 2,165 ) , and there is a certain lack of confidence that the thing will be an easy sell given that it is significantly slower than the lower capacity drives , making it unsuitable for most leading edge mainframe applications ( CI No 2,165 ) : the conspiracy theorists conjecture that it is not a product that the sales force and the market actually want , one that could have been developed simply to respond to something a competitor was planning but in the end never launched , but that it has cost sufficient to develop that to write off the effort now would leave a nasty hole in AdStar Inc 's balance sheet — much better to put the thing out in the confidence that some users will bite , and write the work off over perhaps a five-year product life . |
| 13 | Although he said it is really too early to tell what life in the US will be like under President Clinton , Gates said the US economy is definitely coming back , but that it has changed . |
| 14 | The central problem is not that power has shifted from national governments and Parliament to Europe , but that it has shifted towards the Commission and the Council of Ministers . |
| 15 | All that says is that this particular product line is not following a smooth transition from youth to middle age and then old age , but that it has managed to find some rejuvenation late in life . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | show that p53 may play an important role in cell death resulting from treatment with the topoisomerase 2 inhibitor , etoposide , but that it appears to have no involvement in the spontaneous ‘ ageing ’ apoptosis associated with prolonged culture of these thymocytes . |
| 18 | If you apply to the fund at the beginning of the month you 'll likely to get something , but hard luck if you apply later on in the month , but that she 's taken up as an open letter to Jerry Hayes , but so far I have n't seen it in the press . |