Example sentences of "but [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two completely anonymous respondents agreed with this view of overall high-quality work , one confidently but paradoxically remarking that the firm would not have been hired otherwise ! |
| 2 | It was a small but clear sign that the western democracies wished to extend an olive branch to Franco , made clearer by the fact that Britain and the United States had voted in favour . |
| 3 | This is not to deny the vital role played by language in naturalizing cultural differences such as gender roles , but rather to assert that artefacts may be still more powerful mechanisms in this process . |
| 4 | This is not intended to demean in any way the at times very fine lithographs that Redon produced , but rather to imply that they are directly connected in his mind to the literary and visual sources that interested him , including Edgar Allan Poe , Charles Baudelaire , Gustave Flaubert , Stephane Mallarmé , and Goya amongst others . |
| 5 | However , this recognition is not in order to freeze into cynical inaction , in the words of John Huddleston , but rather to ensure that our thinking about the future is practical and down-to-earth as well as visionary ( Huddleston , 1991 ) . |
| 6 | Apparently it is not intended to decide that a bowler with a long run pays more than a dashing opening batsman , but rather to ensure that a highly-paid Test cricketer does not necessarily pay the same amount as a young uncapped player . |
| 7 | The short-lived benefits from the 1967 devaluation and the persistence of poor economic performance after the floating of sterling in 1972 , demonstrate not just the limited effect of devaluation but rather suggest that exchange rate difficulties are symptomatic of more fundamental problems [ National Institute , 1972 ] . |
| 8 | Others are less concerned with perfect indexing , but rather demand that the searcher exercise his skills thoroughly , offering him the appropriate facilities to do so . |
| 9 | She was wrong to think that genuine criticism could be severed from evaluation , but right to think that there was no place for such criticism in the academy . |
| 10 | Her father took some persuading but eventually accepted that Alexandra had nothing to do with organizing his trip . |
| 11 | Science travels hopefully but rarely claims that it has arrived . |
| 12 | But humbly regret that the Gracious Speech seeks to continue economic policies which have caused a deep and damaging recession , falling output and investment , rising unemployment and record levels of business failures and house repossessions ; and call upon the Government to adopt a programme for recovery which will encourage investment and rising levels of employment by the promotion of sustained investment in the manufacturing sector , by encouraging industrial innovation through the application of science and technology and by fully exploiting the potential of the neglected regions through vigorous regional policies , and by providing new opportunities in education and training which are crucial to Britain 's economic recovery and future prosperity . |
| 13 | She was flying , just within the still pocket of air , but enough to know that she had the power . |
| 14 | You may use your hands to emphasise points — not in too exaggerated a way , but sufficiently to show that you are putting your whole being into it . |
| 15 | For there is no doubt that our prevailing intuitions about ourselves as agents , and a number of associated philosophical arguments about the concepts of choice , action and responsibility , have tended to make the case of individualism seem not merely strong , but so compelling that we have no option but to accept it . |
| 16 | His voice was not loud , but so penetrating that every syllable was distinct . |
| 17 | Although for safety the main unit must be situated indoors , the hosepipe and solenoid valve will probably be outside but so sited that catastrophic failure of the circuit or a sticking solenoid valve would not cause problems with flooding . |
| 18 | It was obviously old , but so corroded that it almost fell to pieces in my hand . |
| 19 | ‘ I was , ’ she retorted , but swiftly realised that she was doing Cara no favours by snapping in retaliation , and bit back the ‘ but you were n't ’ which begged to be allowed to follow . |
| 20 | Similar diagrams to show the periods of flourishing of various natural groups were used by Richard Owen , Darwin 's chief adversary in England ; illustrations which look Darwinian may not be so in fact , but merely indicate that contemporaries were all wrestling with similar problems , and were sharing a good many assumptions . |
| 21 | I say this not because any holder of judicial office should ever regard it as an affront to be overruled by an appellate court but merely to emphasise that as a practical matter the chances are that the visitor probably will get it right . |
| 22 | quoted with approval a passage in Jervis on Coroners , 9th ed. ( 1957 ) , p. 179 , now to be found in the 10th ed. p. 197 , that any conflict between a verdict of lack of care and rule 33 of the Coroners Rules 1953 , now rule 42 of the Rules of 1984 , can be obviated by making sure that the verdict does not state that the death was aggravated by the lack of care of any particular person or persons but merely states that it was aggravated by lack of care . |
| 23 | It should be noted that the relation sign does not indicate anything about the nature of the relationship between two subjects , but merely states that two or more concepts are treated in relation to one another in a document . |
| 24 | This is not to reject the approach out of hand ; but merely to acknowledge that it has weaknesses . |
| 25 | It may be , however , that the dictum is an overstatement of the true position and that the agency principle does not require that the act of one partner be that of all for all purposes , but merely deems that to be the case for the limited purpose of attaching liability to the firm for the acts and omissions of one of its members . |
| 26 | Professor Gower noted in his review of investor protection , which ultimately gave rise to the FSA , that the aim should not be to protect fools from their own folly but merely to ensure that ordinary people were not made fools of . |
| 27 | For instance , in the commercial applications , the articles of association of a company do not specify a procedure , but merely say that the auditors are to certify the value of the shares ( see Chapter 3 ) : the same brevity is encountered in the share option ( 5.2 ) and convertible preference share examples ( 5.6 ) . |
| 28 | ‘ . When the signatories said that he or she would be prepared to enter into a deed to formalise the situation , they were not postponing the legal effect of the document or reserving a final view but merely saying that they would be willing to do so if required , ie record in a more formal way the transactions which had already been made . |
| 29 | ( I am not arguing that the Americans do not themselves engage in all manner of protectionist devices , but merely note that they do at least have an intrinsic belief in the benefits of Adam Smith 's hidden hand , a view which is not wholly shared on the Continent of Europe . ) |
| 30 | As for houses , I am not going to touch on their security here , but merely suggest that you contact the Crime Prevention Officer at your local police station . |