Example sentences of "but [that] [pron] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was because they found that many of their animals and plants were very similar to European forms , but that they did differ in what seemed to be significant respects , such as size or colour . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | What is notable about them is not that they are black , but that they do not have dogs . |
| 4 | Instead , we hold that species are real things , but that they do not have essences . |
| 5 | The problem is not that parents want to spike the afternoon but that they do not think . |
| 6 | Their weakness is not that they will not commit themselves to God but that they do not commit themselves to anything . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Others , however , would rather maintain that these charges have sometimes been exaggerated , but that they do highlight genuine dangers of which one ought to be aware in reading Barth : dangers which lie partly in what he actually says , but also partly in what he can very easily be taken to be saying when his real meaning is subtly but significantly different . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | Passengers say they 'll be stranded in their homes , but that they do n't blame the drivers . |
| 12 | And er what was I going to tell you , I told you about , I talked about we had nine pawnbroker 's shops , I did n't did I , but that we did have nine pawnbroker shops in Ipswich . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | What really matters is not how the horse won , but that he did win , and that in doing so he ended his racecourse career displaying that sparkling but short-lived turn of foot for which he will long be remembered . |
| 16 | He had said he thought he must have been eight but that he did n't really know . |
| 17 | In that case it was held that a journalist lacked standing for an order ( of mandamus ) that the chair of the justices should reveal the names of the magistrates who had heard a particular case , but that he did have standing for a declaration that a policy of not disclosing the names of justices who heard certain types of cases was contrary to the public interest and unlawful . |
| 18 | At the time I believed that I surrendered completely to him but that he did not surrender completely to me . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But that he did , or wanted to do , anything discreditable is quite untrue . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The Appeal Court today ruled that the five-year term should remain , but that he did not have to serve the extra three months . |
| 23 | I said that did I share his belief I should not contemplate what I do , but that I did not share it . |
| 24 | I said that , did I share his belief , I should not contemplate what I do , but that I did not share it . |
| 25 | To say I did n't have time would not be true , but that I did n't really want to make time . |
| 26 | As to liking , I always had the feeling — I ca n't quite express it — the feeling that in his eyes I was all right — useful in fact , but that I did n't matter in myself . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I mentioned earlier that a particular meaning might be made accessible but that it does not necessarily follow that it will be acceptable . |