Example sentences of "but that [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Lebanese delegation at the Middle East peace talks in Washington [ see p. 39119 ] informed their Israeli counterparts on Sept. 22 that Israeli airman Ron Arad was definitely alive , but that they did not know where he was being held . |
| 2 | Their weakness is not that they will not commit themselves to God but that they do not commit themselves to anything . |
| 3 | The problem is not that parents want to spike the afternoon but that they do not think . |
| 4 | What is notable about them is not that they are black , but that they do not have dogs . |
| 5 | Instead , we hold that species are real things , but that they do not have essences . |
| 6 | Has it occurred to the Minister that the problem is that there are plenty of young people camped out in the open air , but that they do not have any work ? |
| 7 | Our problem is not that we have the wrong answers to particular doubts but that we do not have the right attitude to doubt in general . |
| 8 | The burden of Mustakimzade 's argument , then , is that Molla Yegan was a mufti but not the Mufti , that he , like any other had the power of and might give fetvas when the need arose , but that he did not attain the office of Mufti . |
| 9 | At the time I believed that I surrendered completely to him but that he did not surrender completely to me . |
| 10 | The following day he told a rally of factory workers that the parliament was " imposed , nominated and illegitimate " , but that he did not have a right to dissolve it . |
| 11 | The Appeal Court today ruled that the five-year term should remain , but that he did not have to serve the extra three months . |
| 12 | I said that did I share his belief I should not contemplate what I do , but that I did not share it . |
| 13 | I said that , did I share his belief , I should not contemplate what I do , but that I did not share it . |
| 14 | His view of this " delirious " material ( note the etymology of délire ) is that it breaks the rules of language ( grammar , syntax , semantic cohesion ) but that it does not mean nothing . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Israel 's great sin was n't that it did not do good things — but that it did not obey the Law , the Torah . |
| 18 | In the first phase he confirmed that when meat powder ( an unconditioned stimulus ) was placed on the dog 's tongue a natural reflex occurred and the dog salivated ( an unconditioned response ) , but that it did not salivate solely in response to a buzzer sounded for 30 seconds , a neutral stimulus . |
| 19 | On the more difficult topic of the Pauline corpus I concluded that the evidence was equally compatible with a widely differing set of authors or a single unusually versatile author , but that it did not support the view that four epistles stood out as uniform by comparison with all others . |
| 20 | Penny Duce of the Poetry Library , who recently visited Lending Services said that the Library would be pleased to accept requests for books on BL forms , but that she did not expect to be borrowing material for SPL itself . |