Example sentences of "but that [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that idea was ultimately abandoned for the reasons there mentioned . |
| 2 | But that support is unfortunately all too rare — she is disappointed , for example , at the lack of women at the same level as herself . |
| 3 | Of course , more progress needs to be made , but that statistic is some indication of the progress that we are making and have made . |
| 4 | But that loyalty was mediated by a common critique of their own , shared in kitchens and over doorsteps , of the authoritarianism endured by the women . |
| 5 | ‘ But that year was useful because David 's role was very much in financial management . |
| 6 | But that basket were only half full and it cost me a quid for what were in the basket . |
| 7 | But that smile was so tremendous , and so feminine , that I confess I felt an attraction for that thing , that woman-thing . |
| 8 | Lewis is in training at Hilton Head Island , South Carolina , for his May WBC heavyweight title defence against Tony Tucker but that fight is already being overshadowed by talk of a clash with Bruno . |
| 9 | But that opportunity is circumscribed , nonetheless , and in a country where Rupert Murdoch , Robert Maxwell and Lord Rothermere , with their powerful and partisan views , control 80 per cent of national newspapers , there is an understandable reluctance to give their newspapers a blank cheque to attack political enemies . |
| 10 | Look oh well , yeah but that stuff 's horrible though . |
| 11 | She was shocked herself , but that shock was muted by the greater shock of realising that even now she was not certain that she would keep the appointment she had made for the morning . |
| 12 | We 've still got the Children Act coming through , I know that may appear a bit odd , but that Act was in fact in nineteen eighty nine , but it 's come through in a sense on an incremental basis , and it 's accepted by the Department of Health and er , the S S I , that indeed , and the Audit Commission , that there are elements in the present settlement for the Children Act . |
| 13 | If someone had the right thought , that the play did begin there at eight , then their thought did have a content that was true , but that content was not identical with the actual state of affairs . |
| 14 | This view of existence assumes that neither pleasure nor pain naturally predominates , but that life is a permanent encounter with both positive and negative elements . |
| 15 | But that life was over now and a new one lay ahead . |
| 16 | Freud also considered the view of communists , that it is the institution of private property which has corrupted man 's nature , but that man is basically co-operative and good : people could be naturally well-disposed towards their neighbours if only private property was abolished . |
| 17 | Some of the ideas which I discuss are currently rated ‘ improbable ’ , but should not be dismissed for that reason alone : their supporters may be in a minority , but that minority is often a very distinguished one . |
| 18 | But that shirt 's okay cos it , I mean he can wear that to school ca n't he ? |
| 19 | But that judgement is not well considered . |
| 20 | Anthony Gilberthorpe originally won his case against two tabloid newspapers , but that judgement was overturned . |
| 21 | But that rise is significant . |
| 22 | Though consent is undeniably a defence to an action for conversion , there are difficulties in reconciling this result , sensible as it may seem , with general principles of agency , for since Y's act was unauthorised it could only be effective if done within an ostensible authority — but that doctrine is inapplicable to undisclosed agency . |
| 23 | Close up he could see how she could n't possibly be a rival , whatever they did with wigs and make-up , but that voice was alarming ; or was it ? |
| 24 | But that winter was a dismal season on the North Shore . |
| 25 | She knows that she ought to ring her mother , that there is still a faint possibility that she might ring her mother , but that possibility is already fading , and as the admonitory red glare of the clock clicks silently to 20.20 it gasps and dies within her . |
| 26 | But that burglary was the clincher . |
| 27 | But that plan is no good now . ’ |
| 28 | But that window 's completely cleared out now and it has n't been open at all this week . |
| 29 | In October 1537 , a son was born but Jane died in the confinement Henry remained without a wife until January 1540 , when he married Anne of Cleves , a German princess , but that marriage was dissolved without being consummated , so on 28th . |
| 30 | The train drew in to Penn Station with the arguments still raging round Uncle Mick 's grizzled head , but that head was still unbowed and at one time Denis was sure he saw a wink in the wicked old eye as he took on about three arguments at once and lost all of them . |