Example sentences of "but [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | An official statement declared that the decision was separate from the talks on the bases , but that it had been " influenced " by the Philippine government 's demand for the fighters to be removed by September 1991 . |
| 32 | Then , suddenly , he relented and told me that my proposed interview with you was recorded in your desk diary , but that it had been overlooked . ’ |
| 33 | Suppose that v t is not serially uncorrelated , as restriction ( 7.3 ) requires , but that it bears the following , hitherto unsuspected relationship to : |
| 34 | The strength of a social institutional ideal , however , is not that it always attains its stated objectives , but that it establishes itself as the desirable norm . |
| 35 | We are forced to conclude that each microsociety has its own elaborated code , capable of indefinite extension , but that it presents an opaque front to the confrontation surfaces of other microsocieties . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | I mentioned earlier that a particular meaning might be made accessible but that it does not necessarily follow that it will be acceptable . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | As Wildavsky ( 1975 , p. 42 ) states : ‘ It is not so much that traditional budgeting succeeds brilliantly on every criterion but that it does not entirely fail on any one that is responsible for its longevity . ’ |
| 44 | The problem is not just that buckminsterfullerene forms , but that it does so with such efficiency . |
| 45 | One torso is so weathered that little can be said but that it does seem to show the same primitive technique as Nikandre 's . |
| 46 | His view of this " delirious " material ( note the etymology of délire ) is that it breaks the rules of language ( grammar , syntax , semantic cohesion ) but that it does not mean nothing . |
| 47 | Most students of the phenomenon however , are convinced that it is ‘ real ’ but that it depends exquisitely on the context . |
| 48 | On the basis of the above analysis by the Court it might be more accurate to say that the test is a commercial one but that it relates not to the transfer of ownership of enterprises , but to the transfer of economic or organisational activities . |
| 49 | Specificity means that not only is a function lost or impaired after damage to one part of the brain but that it survives damage to other parts of the brain that , in turn , produces other effects . |
| 50 | Suppose that I claimed yesterday to know that it would rain in the afternoon , on the normal grounds ( weather forecast , gathering clouds , etc. ) , but that it turns out that I was wrong . |
| 51 | He knew that the universe was complex but that it obeyed certain rules , although , she supposed , he would n't have used the word ‘ obey ’ with its implication of conscious choice . |
| 52 | The second — Mr Lawson 's line -that demand is indeed slowing down , but that it takes a long time to affect the balance of payments . |
| 53 | Hoyle writes : ‘ My own recent work has caused me to doubt , not that evolution takes place , but that it takes place according to the usual theory of natural selection operating on randomly generated mutations . |
| 54 | It seems safest to conclude that this symbiotic relationship is the norm , but that it takes place to varying degrees according to policy , place and circumstance . |
| 55 | He was quite prepared to argue the case that savage practices might be integral to a culture : ‘ We may not like the notion of cannibalism or head-hunting , but that it formed part of a distinct and tenable form of culture in Melanesia is indisputable . ’ |
| 56 | It does n't follow that the cap/name link disappears but that it becomes so to say transpersonalized . |
| 57 | Aristotle said something very interesting in that extract from the Politics which I quoted earlier ; he said that women have a deliberative faculty but that it lacks full authority . |
| 58 | He contests that petty commodity production is a separate mode of production from the capitalist one , but that it articulates with it to facilitate the expanded reproduction of the capitalist mode ( Quijano 1974 ) . |
| 59 | The natural way to interpret the EPR experiment is not that it shows up the incompleteness of quantum theory but that it manifests the falsity of naive locality . |
| 60 | Remember that Dickens was writing before Freud had begun to uncover the immense complexity of the human personality , before William James 's pioneering work on consciousness , which showed that our conscious mind is not solid but that it runs like a stream , swirling endlessly around symbols , associations from the past ; always moving , never at rest . |