Example sentences of "but [conj] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But where it really takes off is in the central performances by De Niro and Williams . |
| 2 | It is in Britain 's interest for us to be at the heart of that Europe — where the Prime Minister said that he wanted us , but where he signally failed to put us at Maastricht . |
| 3 | But iff you actually allow B R as an organization to bid , I think it 's making a nonsense of privatization because you 're saying in essence there is n't anything wrong with B R management at the moment and we 'll let them take over the network . |
| 4 | It is not that the advocates of these approaches to the curriculum take different views of the nature of society , but that they fundamentally differ regarding the purposes of education . |
| 5 | Many pilots find that they manage safely on their first few short cloud climbs but that they soon get tired and lose their concentration . |
| 6 | It seems to me that these dreams were not only manifestations of hunger , but that they also evinced a desire to be normal and part of the natural world . |
| 7 | It is not that they are too slow to avoid being hit , but that they simply do not hear the cars speeding towards them . |
| 8 | They choose the following extract and ask you to submit a target version of it , stating that they appreciate that you may not have had time to read the whole novel but that they just want to see how you might handle Le Carré 's language . |
| 9 | Over a period of fifteen years he noted that not only were the ridge and furrow patterns of each individual 's prints unique , but that they never changed . |
| 10 | This , teachers and educational technologists will always happily agree , is the librarian 's professional job , and what surprises people is not that librarians classify and catalogue but that they sometimes believe they know something about the contents of their books and AV items , offer advice on quality and relevance , and have pronounced views on how they would like their libraries to be used . |
| 11 | What people sometimes fail to realise is that standard provisions are fine as a general guide but that they often have to be amended ( or even dropped altogether ) to allow the transaction to make ‘ commercial sense ’ on both sides . |
| 12 | Not that I 'm suggesting that we should be soft when children do wrong but that we just reverse the ratio of our attention and energy from the negative to the positive . |
| 13 | Erm it 's quite clear there 's going to be no more new money for patient care and without that I do n't think we 're going to get the increase in quality of service but that we actually need . |
| 14 | We learn that he has not only killed his brother-in-law for opposing the Iranian government but that he unrepentantly believes that ‘ war is the source of love and hope and satisfaction . ’ |
| 15 | I think — I hope — that in a sense the relief of having a young assistant was not only that it helped his work , but that he also welcomed the presence of a younger doctor with more up-to-date medical knowledge . |
| 16 | Leigh-Pemberton said yesterday that PR was a subject that ‘ quite interested ’ him at the time , but that he now has ‘ no particular views ’ . |
| 17 | It can happen that at the time of the sale the seller is not the owner ( and thus is in breach of the condition in section 12 ) but that he subsequently obtains that ownership , e. g. by buying the goods from their owner . |
| 18 | Working with a graduate student , Andrew Himes , Dr Simpson decided he had overestimated the number of fat neutrinos , but that he still saw them , both when repeating his work on tritium and when looking at the beta decays of sulphur . |
| 19 | It was a great day when he found , not so much that he could still play , but that he still wanted to . |
| 20 | She said that it was partly because of drink — that all the Stavangers drank , and that her father knew he was drinking too much , but that he never drank at sea . |
| 21 | My book shows that Modigliani was not that gloomy pessimist of morbid temperament who ‘ destroyed himself with as much care as he put into constructing his talent ’ , but that he never doubted his worth nor the imminence of success . |
| 22 | Not but that he ever needed much . |
| 23 | Dicey argued , not only that belief in the inherent excellence of federalism was a ‘ delusion ’ , but that it also ran against the grain of English history : |
| 24 | Therefore , take what occurs around the 29th or thereabouts as a definite sign or signal from the heavens that not only must life go on , but that it also has to get better and better . |
| 25 | We 've already designated Spectra or Dyneema line for your stunter and for the good reason that this material is not only lightest for its strength , but that it also has the property of sliding on itself even with as many as fifteen twists between flyer and kite . |
| 26 | If I was asked what I felt characterised the walking around Wensleydale , I would say that it has all the expanse and sweep of the bigger dales like Wharfedale but that it also has jewels of villages like West Burton and Askrigg and the fine falls of Hardraw and Aysgarth . |
| 27 | She recognised that he wanted her to forget what had happened , but that it also leapt vividly before his eyes and had a hold on him too . |
| 28 | But what they were getting at was n't so much that the coverage was favouring one party over another but that it simply did n't relate to them , the actual voters in the constituency . |
| 29 | From the above it is evident that the quality of a reading experience does not relate entirely to the quality of the reading material , but that it partly relates to those things the reader brings to the text . |
| 30 | For example , suppose that airline pilots are paid far more than their transfer earnings , but that it always takes three pilots ( pilot equivalents ) to fly a plane . |