Example sentences of "[adj] but [conj] [pron] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't make it blatant but when he makes that deal at the end of the film you know what he 's doing . |
| 2 | She agreed to one glass of the port , not because she was feeling at all drunk but because she knew that she ought to be . |
| 3 | For our part , we wish to step back from philosophical issues , not because they are totally irrelevant but because we believe that it is not necessary , from a sociological research point of view , to take them up . |
| 4 | What persuades Quine , however , is not that his examples are so convincing but that he knows that there must be some examples , and these look like the best candidates . |
| 5 | Well I did think about it but the Careers Officer advised me no cos he thought that you have to be really really good before y get in and he asked me if I thought I was really good and I said that well I was not too bad but and he said that he thought it would be better to concentrate on something else . |