Example sentences of "but [conj] [pron] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The phrase does not indicate that Brahman does not exist , or that we know nothing about Brahman , but that we know that Brahman is so far beyond our understanding that anything we say will be misleading and therefore we must content ourselves with saying neti-neti . |
| 2 | Lt Cot Hocevar stated that he knew of these plans , but that he considered that Carinthia was not part of Austria . |
| 3 | This is not always easy ; we become skilled at using professional jargon and expect to hear it from others , but if we believe that people who use services should be involved in planning , then it is important that the language we use can be understood . |
| 4 | If A knows in advance that B ca n't come , then he is being deceptive ; but if he knows that B knows that he knows that B ca n't come , then he can not be interpreted as requesting at all ( utterance ( i ) might then be a joke , or if B is in an incapacitated ( say , inebriated ) state , perhaps a gibe ) . |
| 5 | ‘ But if you know that person , you can generally disentangle what 's really happening from the rest . |
| 6 | But if you think that money can ever pay me back for losing the little child — who came to the forge — and always the best of friends ! ’ |
| 7 | But if anyone said that Christianity was n't going to cost you anything , they were not telling you the full story . |
| 8 | As we understand it , the Chancellor does not tax spirits more heavily because of their intrinsic properties nor because of the categories of persons who consume spirits , but because he considers that spirits face market circumstances which allow them to bear heavier taxes . |
| 9 | Guy ( 1980 ) has concluded from his study of final stop deletion that the individual follows the group norm very closely ; but since we know that scores for different linguistic variables are not distributed within or between groups in a comparable way , we can not conclude that all variables will behave in the same way as the syllable-final alveolar stop . |
| 10 | But lest we fear that party time is over , in comes news of a rather spiffing affair held last week in the rather gorgeous setting of the Rovers Return pub in Coronation Street . |
| 11 | The rents seem low , but when one considers that Mayhew 's seller of songs with a dependent wife earned less than 10s. a week and sometimes less than 5s. , it is easy to see why he might cling to his far from model room , where he has his own ‘ bits and sticks ’ , even at an exorbitant rent of 2s. 3d . |
| 12 | His wife had disapproved of this development at first — he suspected that she had paired off Damien and Clare in her mind — but when it transpired that Mark had been baptized a Catholic , and when he started to go to Mass again , she had become favourably disposed to the idea of their going out together . |
| 13 | But when he saw that others liked the plan he refrained from blocking it . |
| 14 | Brando had never sung before , but when he felt that Sinatra was singing in the wrong manner , he said to Mankiewicz , ‘ He 's supposed to sing with a Bronx accent . |
| 15 | At first the doctor was worried the boy would get too tired , but when he heard that Dickon would push the wheelchair , he agreed . |
| 16 | Negus Mikael , Lij Yasu 's father , being now a devout Christian , had condemned his son 's affiliation to Islam , but when he heard that Lij Yasu had been deposed family pride was outraged . |
| 17 | But when he heard that Sipotai had tried to kill Burun in front of an army of witnesses , he would spit blood . |
| 18 | Initially , used the effect to entertain children at the Leukaemia unit in St Bartholomew 's hospital , but when he found that scientists also were taking interest , he founded the Magic Penny Society , partly because he sees the new pennies as an excellent educational toy to excite children 's interest in science . |
| 19 | Mei Ling pretended a stare of disapproval , but when she saw that Alexei was watching , she smiled . |