Example sentences of "but [that] [det] [modal v] [be] " in BNC.

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1 In this case , a plaintiff bought a used car which he was told had something wrong with the clutch and oil pressure gauge but that neither would be serious .
2 Because her sleep was still disturbed and her consequent lack of energy was making her job and domestic chores more difficult , the therapist said he would advise her general practitioner to prescribe a mild hypnotic , but that this would be for a strictly limited period .
3 He pointed out that the SOFRECOM recommendations for a VHF-FM system would be the only way to achieve national coverage , but that this would be very expensive : a mere K537,000 had been allocated for capital expenditure , ‘ just a drop in a sea of water ’ .
4 Kim suggested that he wished to hold an early meeting with Roh , but that this would be dependent upon the Premiers ' talks yielding " visible results " .
5 Instead of using a fixed percentage , Cubbin and Leech argue that a shareholder or group of shareholders can be regarded as having control where it is likely that they would win a contested vote , but that this can be determined only by examining the degree of dispersal of shareholdings within the individual company concerned .
6 Suppose that an individual has to put up 100 per cent margin ( i.e. has to pay the full amount of the investment Pf from the start ) but that this can be invested at the riskless rate r .
7 President Chadli Benjedid , at a March 13 press conference , said that there was no question of dissolving parliament at present , but that this could be considered if a consensus were to emerge on the matter ; legislative elections were due in 1992 but could be brought forward if necessary , and Chadli accepted the possibility of the ruling National Liberation Front ( Front de libération nationale — FLN ) finding itself in a minority after such elections .
8 Before the Brownings left Florence she had enquired of Mr Browning how things stood and had been told very ill , but that this must be kept from his wife until she was in the warm south and better able to stand the inevitable end of it all .
9 It was recognised by the Warnock Committee that children with sensory impairments could indeed have special educational needs , but that these might be met within a range of different kinds of educational placements , for instance , in individual integration , in special units , or in special schools .
10 It advised that employees should have a right to paid educational leave , and also that adult education courses should charge fees , but that these should be small .
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