Example sentences of "but [adv] [that] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason for this is not so much that it was beyond some people 's capacity to do imposition and so on ; but rather that it cost employers money to train people to do such tasks . |
| 2 | It is not that the outlawing of all war apart from the overwhelming necessities of self-defence is unrealistic and therefore inevitably unefficacious as a means for controlling force , but rather that it runs counter to the sort of moral consensus on which the ethical authority of international law could be based . |
| 3 | Today the major worry about the interest-investment link is not that the investment curve is inelastic , but rather that it shifts erratically with the confidence of investors . |
| 4 | This does not mean that the group is clandestine but rather that it has other characteristics of a conspiracy ; in particular , common purpose and internal communication on significant issues . |
| 5 | The reason that it has received so much attention is not primarily that it is of practical importance ( although it has applications , e.g. Sections 26.2 , 26.5 , 26.6 ) , but rather that it has become a context for the development of ideas about the consequences of instability and evolution towards turbulent motion . |
| 6 | We should note here that Lyotard does not maintain that the unconscious does not signify but only that it does not signify like a language . |
| 7 | One can say that the whole material universe has a certain colour , but not that it has a certain position . |
| 8 | Similarly , one can say that a bodily sensation has the intrinsic quality of being a tingle , or is hall-marked ‘ tingling ’ , but not that it has an in-the-foot quality . ) |
| 9 | The strength of the DCAC was not simply that it had the backing of the existing leadership of anti-Unionist opinion in Derry , but also that it succeeded in attracting new people who had not previously been involved in any kind of political activity but who found unsuspected reservoirs of energy and initiative . |
| 10 | I was not only surprised to find they had plenty of timber for fence posts , but also that it cost far less than new wood . |
| 11 | He recognised that some understanding is given directly by God , but also that it has to be appropriated by human beings using their reason . |
| 12 | Afterwards Fogarty admitted : ‘ I thought a North-West win would never come for me , but now that it has I 'm a happy man . ’ |
| 13 | I ALREADY reviewed this back in July but now that it 's finally been given a British release ‘ Perfect Day ’ will , in time , be seen as a perfect moment from MFS 's classic period , alongside excursions from Cosmic Baby , Microglobe and Mind Gear . |
| 14 | It needed a two-tier design approach , but now that it 's got one — compliments of the VRX implementation ( UX No 379 ) — the window of opportunity is n't as wide open . |