Example sentences of "but that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The agent , a good one , reported that the affair was n't quite as dramatic as first accounts had suggested and had been on a far smaller scale , but that students had definitely been involved and at least one of them appeared badly hurt . |
| 2 | But that Parliament has not met since 1706 and is extremely unlikely ever to meet again . |
| 3 | Walesa , addressing his former workmates at the Gdansk shipyard on June 3 , stated that he advocated rule by decree during a transitional period but that parliament opposed this . |
| 4 | But that construction would be inconsistent with the reference in clause 9 to ‘ costs … properly incurred and payments properly made , ’ and would be inconsistent with the general duty of a mortgagee in the exercise of his various powers to pay proper regard to the interests of the mortgagor . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've seen hundreds of corpses since then but that sight has always stuck in my mind . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It 's hard , ’ Mark told a doctor conducting a broadcast interview with him early this month , ‘ but that heart bumps right along ’ |
| 7 | For me it is still a long haul towards fluency ( and the closer you get , the more tempting just to stop with what you have ) but that sense of a door opening when you reach the conversational level makes the effort of getting another language worthwhile . |
| 8 | But that idea killed the vision and she could only put her arms round him again and hide her face against his chest . |
| 9 | But that idea was ultimately abandoned for the reasons there mentioned . |
| 10 | But that support is unfortunately all too rare — she is disappointed , for example , at the lack of women at the same level as herself . |
| 11 | But that support , which the Nobel committee acknowledges , does not make her a guerrilla . |
| 12 | Britain has historically provided substantial direct aid for civil aviation research , most recently for the development of Airbus , but that support has ended as the programme approaches commercial viability . |
| 13 | It agrees that companies should be publicly accountable in return for the privilege of limited liability , it says , but that accountability lies in filing the accounts , rather than their audit . |
| 14 | You can compel them to go to the polling station and even to put an official election slip into the ballot box but that slip could be blank or spoiled , so what would be achieved ? |
| 15 | But that things making like when you go out |
| 16 | Of course , more progress needs to be made , but that statistic is some indication of the progress that we are making and have made . |
| 17 | Derry won just one game in their Minor League campaign but that statistic must be viewed in the context of the county 's policy of experimentation during the competition . |
| 18 | In the stricter sense it is nearly a four percent increase but that statistic itself is absolutely meaningless . |
| 19 | She has suffered much in the last decade but that experience has given her the inner fortitude to shoulder the emotional burden she must carry on the next stage of her life 's journey . |
| 20 | In 1988 they were granted permission to operate on 15 Sundays in any year but that permission expired in December last year . |
| 21 | When Norwich and Arsenal appeared at Lancaster Gate the FA was concerned not only that neither club had condemned the incident immediately but that Norwich had not given any indication that they were going to punish some of their players , apart from fining them for making comments to newspapers . |
| 22 | For modern scholars , there is no question but that Jesus was steeped in biblical teachings and especially those of the prophetic books . |
| 23 | But that individual had chosen to draw himself to Jaq 's attention once already , had he not ? |
| 24 | But that hope seems slim . |
| 25 | For a few months , I entertained a ray of hope that after many , many years there was now less need for young men to face death in battle , but that hope has now died . |
| 26 | But that privilege maybe denied to some people because biologically they are not perfect , in the way that other people are not biologically perfect , and I do n't think we can demand the right |
| 27 | But that loyalty was mediated by a common critique of their own , shared in kitchens and over doorsteps , of the authoritarianism endured by the women . |
| 28 | My own impression is that initially there was a significant increase , but that attendance has now returned to much the same levels as before the cameras came in . |
| 29 | ‘ When I was fifteen my mother thought I was still a child … but that year I discovered life , rock and roll and love with a boy named Brownie Hansen … ’ |
| 30 | I read that runners could only run five ultra events a year , but that year I ran eight , then 13 the next year and 18 the next , and I think others began to realise you can do more if you take the right approach . ’ |