Example sentences of "but that [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The group found that many such courses existed , but that they lacked co-ordination . |
| 2 | It was not the quantity of stars that was so impressive , though if there had been more they would have blended into a whitewash , nor was it their brilliance , though they were a dazzling variation of colour and size , but that they seemed alive . |
| 3 | I did tell him , however , that the older boys — and I was form-master of the modern sixth — were keenly interested in what was going on in modern literature , but that they seemed to some extent cushioned against modern life in their ignorance , which was almost total , of such currents of thought as Marxism . |
| 4 | It should not be assumed from these statements that they do not move at all-they can be quite active at high tide by night but that they remain within the same general area of shore . |
| 5 | The High Court found that the General Commissioners had correctly concluded that the mezzanine platforms should be regarded as plant based on their findings of fact , but that they had erred in law in allowing the claims for capital allowance for the lighting . |
| 6 | Some said that their wives did not have ideal looks , but that they had chosen to marry them for other qualities . |
| 7 | In a third serving of a bankruptcy notice in 1911 , Wilson claimed not only that the Federation had inspired the plaintiff , a seaman called Nielsen , to take the action , but that they had moved the plaintiff from place to place so that he could not be found , making it impossible to discharge the union 's debt to him . |
| 8 | They declared that they both agreed on the need for further reductions in their respective nuclear stockpiles , but that they had not yet agreed on which types of weapons should be reduced and the speed of reductions . |
| 9 | Prime Minister John Major announced to the House of Commons on Dec. 9 that the Prince and Princess of Wales , who married in 1981 [ see p. 31116 ] , were to separate but that they had no plans to divorce and that their constitutional positions were unaffected , adding : " There is no reason why the Princess of Wales should not be crowned queen in due course . " |
| 10 | However , the majority of teachers who were interviewed claimed that they had not done anything different from what they would have done were they not being observed , but that they had probably prepared lessons more carefully and thought things through more . |
| 11 | He concluded that not only had the respondents agreed negatively not to sell other petrol but that they had agreed positively to keep their garage open for the sale of the appellant 's petrol at all reasonable hours throughout the period of the tie . |
| 12 | Everything within reason must be done to ensure not only that children are not neglected but that they get the best upbringing possible … . |
| 13 | Our experience within the Metropolitan Police area is not that the police are suspicious of medical intervention but that they recognised — µespecially since the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 covering treatment of detained persons — that independent and effective medical intervention in police custody is in the interests of justice . |
| 14 | For them the issue is not how good or bad the ‘ treatment ’ they receive is , but that they receive no treatment at all . |
| 15 | Is my hon. and learned Friend aware that in the Baltic states today the problems of lack of food and hunger are just as serious as , if not more serious than , those in the big cities of the former Soviet Union , but that they receive little attention ? |
| 16 | We must demonstrate that poverty , unemployment , low pay and low skills are not just barriers to individual opportunity , but that they undermine the capacity for wealth creation . |
| 17 | There is no question but that they granted planning permission for Killingholme . |
| 18 | Is n't there something suspicious about making the performance of intentional actions the acid test of objective knowledge when it is quite possible that young babies have a very rich knowledge about the unseen existence of objects but that they lack the capacity to co-ordinate this knowledge with their motor skills at object removal ? |
| 19 | This does not mean that the person needs necessarily to go faster , but that they organize their time more effectively . |
| 20 | The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner , but that they reflect a certain underlying order , which may or may not be divinely inspired . |
| 21 | The problem with states of this kind is not that they exclude all organised groups , as the doctrine of Napoleonic administration says they should , but that they exclude unequally and grant access and favours to certain privileged groups . |
| 22 | They told him bluntly to go if he must but that they preferred more contemporary methods and would stay in the cabin preparing their equipment . |
| 23 | A spokesman for the club said yesterday that the players realised the serious nature of their action , but that they wanted their fate in their own hands . |
| 24 | The indictment of this book is not only that the authorities have permitted certain specific excesses of which examples are described , but that they have deliberately promoted and condoned violence , crime and racketeering in order to alienate both their terrorist and political opponents from their natural sympathisers . |
| 25 | The idea of a rational democracy is , not that the people themselves govern , but that they have security for good government … the best government ( need it be said ? ) must be the government of the wisest , and these must always be a few . |
| 26 | but that they have swallowed us . |
| 27 | ‘ No , it 's not that men are excluded from these new values but that they have to adapt ; learn to change , ’ says Roderick . |
| 28 | It is not that revolutionary movements have been absent ( and they will be considered in more detail in Chapter 4 ) but that they have failed to elicit sustained and effective support from any large part of the working class . |
| 29 | If we do not get them , when this tax is put into place many single elderly people , in particular , will feel not only hard done by but that they have not been properly considered . |
| 30 | Man will voluntarily integrate his own goals with those of the organization if management works on the assumption not that people dislike work , prefer being directed rather than taking the initiative and respond only to material rewards or threats and sanctions ; but that they have needs for autonomy and independence which must be satisfied through structures of authority that allow self-motivation and self-control . |