Example sentences of "but [that] they [be] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean the statement made today was that they 're not falling behind but that they 're not progressing . |
| 2 | He stood more in the classical Christian tradition , which insisted that self-knowledge and knowledge of God are intimately connected , but that they are not at all the same thing . |
| 3 | The connection between developmental considerations and sado-masochistic tendency would also explain , under these considerations , the fact that much of the tendency and resultant activity is sexual ( libidinally linked ) but that they are not inevitably so . |
| 4 | Leaving aside the issue of sovereignty — not of the House but of the people to self-government — the devil of the single currency is not merely that the economies of the Community are simply not convergent and would be prevented from converging by a single currency , but that they are not all at the same point in their economic cycles . |
| 5 | Their problem is not that they could not take on this responsibility before but that they were not asked to . |
| 6 | Their great unpopularity may have been the consequence of the heavy financial burden they imposed on their employers ; their mere existence is proof that money was circulating fast in western Europe ; but that they were not always paid implies an economy too immature to support them readily . |
| 7 | ‘ but essentially I said that we could use other solutions to expand the blood , but that they were not as effective as blood at transporting oxygen . |
| 8 | It is not quite clear what he meant by this ; the point may well be not that the new kings — Eardwulf in Northumbria , and Coenwulf in Mercia — were of non-royal stock but that they were not of the lineage , respectively , of Aethelred and Offa — but it could easily be construed as a slur . |