Example sentences of "but that it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally we were told that a team had been formed but that it contained no skilful players , we remained sceptical ! |
| 2 | It seems clear then that the Formalist position on all these issues ( authors , reality and ideas ) is not just an arbitrary preference , but that it stems from the concepts of defamiliarisation and literariness , whose differential basis will always serve to define literature in opposition to the things that it was traditionally viewed as expressing . |
| 3 | Thereby he had represented to the finance company that the van was not his but that it belonged to the trader . |
| 4 | The major criticism of this approach to describing organisations is not that it is inaccurate but that it ignores all the informal and interpersonal aspects of organisations and concentrates too heavily on the formal aspects of work organisations . |
| 5 | But that it took another oh quite a number of years really to get it started up . |
| 6 | For the point is this : not that myth refers us back to some original event which has been fancifully transcribed as it passed through the collective memory ; but that it refers us forward to something that will happen , that must happen . |
| 7 | If we group together all the industries that were predominantly in public ownership on the departure of the Labour government , we find that their total employment was thrown into decline in the North from 1978 to 1981 , but that it continued to grow in the South . |
| 8 | In fact , I would argue that not only does it do this , but that it goes much further , indicting all men in complicity for rape and insisting that they share the guilt . |
| 9 | There is a danger , if this is done , that it may be forgotten that pottery is not only a fascinating subject in its own right , but that it offers vital dating evidence for the chronology of the site , and the key sherds must appear in the body of the main report , with similar critical evidence . |
| 10 | It should therefore have been aware of the danger that he would try to cover his liabilities from whatever funds he had access to ( Eagle 's funds ) , but that it made no inquiries about the source of the monies or how he had met his obligations . |
| 11 | The opposition leader Hugh Gaitskell pressed the point and eventually , on 14 May , Eden was forced to admit that an underwater spying operation had been carried out against the Russian ships by Crabb but that it had been done without official approval . |
| 12 | Now , the issue here is not whether this was ‘ good ’ or ‘ bad ’ , the motive humanitarian or base , but that it had a tremendous impact upon the agriculture of the Third World at least in Latin America , South and South-east Asia . |
| 13 | Imagine my disappointment when I staggered down a hill in murky twilight after its purchase to find that not only had it been lying in the back seat of the car for the duration of my climb , but that it had failed to come up and get me when the daylight failed . |
| 14 | Writing to Brook about the Palestine Committee , a survivor from the Coalition , he said that its nominal chairman was Herbert Morrison but that it had ceased to function , its work having shifted to the Middle East Ministerial Committee under Ernest Bevin . |
| 15 | Katharine replied that she had done shoulder-in and hand had a go at half-pass , but that it had n't been very successful ! |
| 16 | Wilkins also told magistrates that he had n't deliberately tipped his drink over the bar but that it had been an accident . |
| 17 | I explained how it was that as a child I had been told I was an eidetiker but that it had meant nothing to me . |
| 18 | ‘ This is what Fael-Inis wanted , ’ thought Taliesin , and knew , even as the thought formed , that Fael-Inis had not wanted it , but that it had been necessary . |
| 19 | A security man working at the centre said the injured man told him one of the gunmen put a sub-machine gun to his head , but that it had failed to go off . |
| 20 | Mark Whiteside ( 18 ) , said he had only recently started modelling but that it had all been good fun . |
| 21 | An official statement declared that the decision was separate from the talks on the bases , but that it had been " influenced " by the Philippine government 's demand for the fighters to be removed by September 1991 . |
| 22 | Then , suddenly , he relented and told me that my proposed interview with you was recorded in your desk diary , but that it had been overlooked . ’ |
| 23 | Suppose that v t is not serially uncorrelated , as restriction ( 7.3 ) requires , but that it bears the following , hitherto unsuspected relationship to : |
| 24 | The strength of a social institutional ideal , however , is not that it always attains its stated objectives , but that it establishes itself as the desirable norm . |
| 25 | We are forced to conclude that each microsociety has its own elaborated code , capable of indefinite extension , but that it presents an opaque front to the confrontation surfaces of other microsocieties . |
| 26 | He also says that the nickel content does not , for all practical purposes , make any difference to the hardness , but that it does make it more stain resistant . |
| 27 | When nuns make vows of celibacy they are saying that something is true for them in particular but that it does not belong to them . |
| 28 | It is recommended that the British government uses Article 20 to rehabilitate on-farm broadleaved woods in the LFA in conjunction with advice from the conservation authorities , but that it does not implement any provisions for afforestation because of the role of the Forestry Commission and private forestry companies in the UK . |
| 29 | I mentioned earlier that a particular meaning might be made accessible but that it does not necessarily follow that it will be acceptable . |
| 30 | Chuck House , senior vice-president of Informix , said exclusive distributor , Ascii Corp , had limitations in terms of strengthening Informix 's relationships with Japanese firms , but that it does want to continue its relationship with Ascii . |