Example sentences of "but [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My veterinary colleagues tell me one of the main dangers with such large dogs is not that they injure themselves ( through overexercising before their skeletons can carry their weight ) but that their diets are over-supplemented , particularly with excessive calcium , which damages bone growth and hinders development . |
| 2 | He felt that it was not enough merely to preserve isolated buildings , but that their setting should be protected and improved as well . |
| 3 | It is not merely that ‘ state capitalist trusts ’ compete on the world market , but that their creation has brought about a new and different model of production relations . |
| 4 | Group members should not only feel that they are contributing to the life of the group , but that their participation is important . |
| 5 | This bishop 's ambiguous statements on aspects of Jesus 's biography can still provoke outrage among people who refuse to believe anything but that their saviour was conceived by the Holy Spirit of a virgin . |
| 6 | Ethnomethodological theorists suggest that social rules can not be fully determined , but that their meaning is often discovered post hoc through their application . |
| 7 | What makes Britain together with Israel and New Zealand , constitutional democracies , despite the absence of codified constitutions , is this very fact that their governments in general feel under pressure to conform to such norms ; when accused of unconstitutional action their defence is not that the term ‘ unconstitutional ’ is without meaning , but that their actions can , despite appearances , be defended in constitutional terms . |
| 8 | They show , for example , how the full range of local authority associations , together with such professional bodies as SOLACE or CIPFA , have been deeply involved in financial matters but that their involvement is less apparent in other policy areas such as fire , education , housing and transport which are marked by their own configuration of interests ( such as the Institute of Housing Managers ) all of which have their own style of central-local relations . |
| 9 | As Eva went into the hostels she realised the Salvation Army was not there to turn people into converts , but that their work must be an extension of Christ 's love : " Jesus Christ did n't say to the man who was filled with many devils — the schizophrenic — " If you follow me I 'll cure you . |
| 10 | The root of delinquency , the alienation , the violent and despairing habits of today 's young , has very little to do with the fact that their parents failed to love them — most adults look round quite desperately for something , anything to coo over , however erratically — but that their parents failed to be worthy of their love . |
| 11 | It is obvious that , not only is it necessary for students with disabilities to have reasonable transport , but that their transport often has to be specially adapted . |
| 12 | It is argued ( Will 1991 ) that these two Departments in particular were successful in attracting funding for training overseas students , but that their theses produced fewer consultations , citations and derived publications than other Departments . |
| 13 | To the extent that Europeans know of this Oxbridge dominance , my experience is that they regard it with some satisfaction ( they have generally heard of Oxford and Cambridge ) , but that their satisfaction changes to complacency when they reflect upon what they believe to be the uniquely class-ridden structure of English society . |
| 14 | Many pilots find that they manage safely on their first few short cloud climbs but that they soon get tired and lose their concentration . |
| 15 | Is n't there something suspicious about making the performance of intentional actions the acid test of objective knowledge when it is quite possible that young babies have a very rich knowledge about the unseen existence of objects but that they lack the capacity to co-ordinate this knowledge with their motor skills at object removal ? |
| 16 | The council argued that it had adopted a sex equality policy to enable both men and women over 60 to rent elderly persons ' dwellings , but that they would now have to review these ‘ progressive ’ policies . |
| 17 | Conversely , the reason why readers of the lowbrow press had such strong preferences for television news was not that they were particularly dissatisified with their papers but that they were particularly enthusiastic about the quality of television . |
| 18 | It was not just that they helped out at the occasional by-election , but that they ‘ pointed to new sources of support whose eventual accommodation , and to new issues whose eventual resolution , would ultimately modify the party itself and help equip it for the challenges of post-war politics ’ . |
| 19 | He poured himself more whisky , pressing Herr Nordern to have another , too , and saying that he was leading the Norderns into bad ways but that they must forgive him as it was n't very often they saw him , ha ! ha ! and Herr Nordern , while not prepared to accept that he was led by anyone except the leaders of his country , took the whisky , thinking , what the devil , he had worked like a dog all day , and it was true , Karl would not be with them much longer and they would probably never see him again and , he had to confess , he would n't mind if he never saw him again as long as either of them lived . |
| 20 | The near 50-page document told prospective buyers that there were certain administrative problems but that they were being sorted out by a consultant . |
| 21 | The near 50-page document told prospective buyers that there were certain administrative problems but that they were being sorted out by a consultant . |
| 22 | But the problem with these groups is not that they 're wimps , but that they 're runts ; not that they 're vulnerable or soppy , but that they 're flimsy , What 's happened is that the perfectly valiant and appropriate refusal to grow up has become a refusal to grow , musically — to take on space , drift , experiment . |
| 23 | But the problem with these groups is not that they 're wimps , but that they 're runts ; not that they 're vulnerable or soppy , but that they 're flimsy , What 's happened is that the perfectly valiant and appropriate refusal to grow up has become a refusal to grow , musically — to take on space , drift , experiment . |
| 24 | What is notable about them is not that they are black , but that they do not have dogs . |
| 25 | Instead , we hold that species are real things , but that they do not have essences . |
| 26 | Everything within reason must be done to ensure not only that children are not neglected but that they get the best upbringing possible … . |
| 27 | They are determined that as port facilities move seaward no part of the inner city areas of the Port should become derelict , but that they should be immediately regenerated for property and leisure activities . |
| 28 | He claims not only that the parties to the original position will avoid choosing any particular perfectionist principle as a constituent of their doctrine of justice , but that they will not even accept a doctrine of justice including an agreed process for determining which perfectionist principle should be implemented in the state . |
| 29 | Sometimes the tears come for no reason ( by which phrase we mean that someone is not crying for a particular reason , for something or someone in particular , but that they are crying for everything ) . |
| 30 | Then a signal for Stirling from Tactical HQ , Eighth Army , said that the RAF component there was unaware of the resupply operation , but that they would endeavour to arrange the aircraft . |