Example sentences of "but that [pers pn] is [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the book of lamentation is not the book you normally turn to , to find words of encouragement , but there are tremendous encouragements to be found in it , listen what the profits says there , in the third chapter , he says this I recall to my mind , and he 's talking about the time of his own affliction , the time when he is going through it , the time when nobody loves him , the time when everybody 's against him , when he 's suffering and he 's in pain the time when life is full of bitterness for him , he says this I recall to my mind , therefore I have hope , the lords loving kindness indeed never ceases for his compassion 's never fail and here Jesus is demonstrating that , he 's compassion 's never fail , he 's loving kindnesses they never cease , here in his dying hour Jesus is showing that in reaching out to this man but as we said the other week the , the deepest , the most important significance of what Jesus did then , of what Jesus said then , its not just of the historical account , but that he is able and willing to say and to do exactly the same today in your experience and in mine , what he did for that man on the cross he 's ready and willing to do for every one of us the incident may of happened nineteen hundred years ago , but there 's the old hymn , the verse reminds us , picks out that very story and it says the dying thief rejoiced to see that fountain in his day and there may I , though via us he wash all my sins away , and that verse from William Cowper 's hymn , it takes up that great historical event , that tremendous happening in that man 's life and he links it with a present and it applies it to you and to me and says this can be our experience as well . |
| 2 | But as we said the other week th the deepest , the most important significance of what Jesus did then , of what Jesus said then is not just of the historical account , but that he is able and willing to say and to do exactly the same today in your experience and in mine . |
| 3 | The doctor may advise that treatment A is preferable , or much preferable , to treatment B , but that he is prepared to undertake either . |
| 4 | Will the Minister confirm that he has no intention of taking meaningful action , but that he is afraid to say so because an election is coming up ? |
| 5 | Or , as John Wisdom was later to put it , ‘ the peculiarity of the soul is not that it is visible to none but that it is visible only to one ’ . |
| 6 | Does the Prime Minister agree with the proposition that it is entirely sensible for a Government to borrow prudently in order to fund capital investment to build economic recovery but that it is sheer folly for a Government to borrow in order to buy votes for an election ? |
| 7 | One example is that of Quality Control The control of quality rests on the assumption that in mass production no two units are exactly identical , but that it is possible to mass produce vast quantities of almost identical units . |
| 8 | Assuming a reasonable sum of money is available , I believe that , in general , coverage is the first priority , but that it is reasonable to start preferring frequency once coverage tops about 65 per cent of a ‘ difficult ’ target audience or 75–80 per cent of an ‘ easy ’ one . |
| 9 | I am not arguing therefore that metaphors should not change , but that it is impossible for us to change them organically unless we understand them in the first place . |
| 10 | The suggestion that conventionalism reduces surprise must assume , then , not that surprise is unfair but that it is undesirable for some other reason : that it is inefficient , for example , or imposes unnecessary risks , or frightens people , or is otherwise not in the general interest . |
| 11 | 16–6–1843 " Considering that within the bounds of this parish there is not such a number of adherants , as would of themselves form a Congregation , but that it is necessary that the parish of Bowmore . |
| 12 | It would appear , from more recent studies , that food additives are important in a great many children with hyperkinetic syndrome , but that it is unusual to find a child for whom additives are the sole problem . |
| 13 | The point is not that we in any way deliberately do down the intelligence of animals — although we do this as well — but that it is hard for us to imagine the workings of forms of intelligence that have evolved to cope with environmental circumstances different from our own . |
| 14 | His contribution asserts not that sex education is important or daring , but that it is problematic , because education is a poor context for open discussion of sex . |
| 15 | It is not that she believes this evolving female corporate future has yet been reflected by numbers of women employed at senior levels but that it is inevitable it will do so during the next decade . |
| 16 | As we shall see later , it is not that the superego does not exist in these circumstances , but that it is undeveloped , unsupported by cultural forces of a progressive character ( and therefore vulnerable to exploitation by those of a regressive nature ) , and is primitive in its functioning . |
| 17 | We want to safeguard the special beauty of our countryside and make sure that it is not only pleasant to walk in but that it is safe too . |
| 18 | That is not to suggest that the gonococcus is not present at these different sites but that it is difficult to identify microscopically . |
| 19 | To ensure that each person has a turn , but that it is difficult for those playing to predict when their number is coming up , I have a system of calling the numbers out . |
| 20 | Again , the precise effects of British imperial domination are inevitably matters of dispute ( Kumar and Desai , 1983 ) and it is important to emphasize that the claim here is not that the level of present development of the regions of the Third World in question is simply the outcome of their colonial experience , but that it is difficult to understand the nature of this underdevelopment and the continuing exploitation of these countries within the international economic order without a grasp of the imperial impact . |
| 21 | The sceptic insists that there is a difference between the two hypotheses , but that it is evidence-transcendent , i.e. that it is a difference which you can not tell ; and he concludes from this that you do n't know which situation you are really in . |