Example sentences of "but [vb -s] that it [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IN A LONG apologia for having had the temerity to undertake a psycho-biography of Mrs Thatcher , Leo Abse denies that his book is a personal attack on her , but agrees that it may have some admonitory function in warning people not to acquiesce too readily in the disposition of someone who would appear , on his argument , to be gravely unbalanced . |
| 2 | Mr Paul Wells , chief executive of the York Visitor and Conference Bureau admits York ‘ can cost a fortune if you visit every attraction ’ but says that it need not be an expensive day out . |
| 3 | But fears that it would be given to poorly educated women or ethnic minorities , without their informed consent , led the Health Minister , Kenneth Clarke , to refuse the drug a full licence last year . |
| 4 | Pablo Riveroll of Baring Securities in Mexico City says the investment could be hugely profitable for Televisa in the long term , but notes that it will bring the firm no net profit until 1996 . |
| 5 | She finds it hard to explain why , but ponders that it may have something to do with the religious faith she grew up with . |
| 6 | Balling claims that the overall contribution from desertification caused by human activity is around 0.013 degrees per year , but admits that it can only be a significant factor for about 15 per cent of the Earth 's surface . |
| 7 | He agrees , first of all , that he has not provided an account of the precise character of pertinent effects , but argues that it would be a mistake to do so . |
| 8 | Cureton 's entry opens with a detailed and well-referenced history of stylistics , but suggests that it may have been suffering from a loss of confidence in the recent past . |