Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] [verb] that [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am familiar with the darker view which encompasses bestiality , incest , parricide , rustling , infanticide and the murderous rivalry within the Women 's Institute , but I had imagined that this view was the product of a warped approach to life and greatly exaggerated . ’ |
| 2 | But I had to accept that this examination was far more important to them . |
| 3 | Any exhibition is worth going looking at and thinking about , but I do think that that is an extraordinarily bad exhibition . |
| 4 | I run the risk of sounding patronising here , but I do feel that this is a point worth making . |
| 5 | I do not know , but I do know that many homosexuals have not chosen to be homosexual but simply are that way . |
| 6 | I can not profess to know how successful , or otherwise , the mystic 's attempts at transcendence may prove , but I do know that all the anorexic is capable of transcending are her own immediate difficulties and that , in most cases , this achievement is comparatively short-lived . |
| 7 | How far this was true I do not know , but I do know that any suggestion from her to Harold Wilson was likely to receive an affirmative answer . |
| 8 | ‘ I did n't realise what I was getting into , ’ he admits , ‘ but I do know that this will be by far the hardest thing I 've done in my life . ’ |
| 9 | But I do see that that would perhaps to attain for young people again . |
| 10 | earlier but I do realize that that was his way . |
| 11 | I mean , come on , but I do understand that some of you were briefed or , or Do n't worry about this now , but we would like this briefing questionnaire back before you leave on Wednesday , er , if you were a late replacement , could you just make that plain on there , er , if you were n't briefed , you 've got the shortest questionnaire in the world to fill in . |
| 12 | He really wants the mud to show his best , but I have to say that this ground helped him get the trip . ’ |
| 13 | But I have heard that that scoundrel El-ahrairah means to come and steal them if he can . |
| 14 | But she had to admit that this child was of a different type altogether : her voice , her manner suggested a refined type of background . |
| 15 | If the physiotherapist sets the correct goals , they will be achieved , but she has to recognize that each patient reacts differently to rehabilitation , depending on a variety of factors . |
| 16 | She did n't even know his name but she did know that this time she was IN LOVE ! |
| 17 | When Autocover was originally negotiated the objective was to establish a scheme to cover the widest spectrum of the membership possible but we had to accept that all Insurance Companies would insist on excluding certain categories . |
| 18 | This is , of course , titillating information for its readers , but we need to remember that this woman was now said to be happily married ; her child would now be aged 10 and could be quite aware of a trial which was getting widespread coverage in the popular newspapers . |
| 19 | Sometimes it is made plain that the Israelites were not directly affected by these disasters , but we have to say that this particular Egypt hardly sounds the sort of place to romanticize about ! |
| 20 | Hearing people may have had difficulty in access , but we have argued that this arises in the unequal status of the learner ( hearing ) and teacher ( deaf ) . |
| 21 | We may talk of such categories as ‘ professionals ’ , ‘ managers ’ , ‘ technicians ’ , ‘ foremen ’ and ‘ manual workers ’ ( and sub-gradations of these ) , but we have to recognise that these terms do not have homogeneous referents , and the degree of real social distinctiveness and cohesiveness of these categories may be highly variable . |
| 22 | But we do know that some people have done within Tarmac . |
| 23 | Unemployment has fallen in the county , although not as fast as in other parts of the region , but it does appear that some 800 previously unemployed Kent people have gained work as a direct result of the Tunnel . |
| 24 | This single value can not be used statistically when comparing chemistry with geology , but it does suggest that some elements of PhD research are diffused into the literature in a much more widespread manner than could be expected by simple inspection of the titles of papers . |
| 25 | This single value can not be used statistically when comparing chemistry with geology , but it does suggest that some elements of Ph D research are diffused into the literature in a much more widespread manner than could be expected by simple inspection of the titles of papers . |
| 26 | ‘ But it does mean that some people have to wait as much as three hours . |
| 27 | As we shall see in the following chapter , this does not necessarily mean that the interests of farmers and landowners are no longer dominant in rural society , but it does mean that this dominance has increasingly to be carried out by reaching an accommodation with these new conditions . |
| 28 | Castalia , the Italian company responsible for the waste in question , has refused to publicise the exact nature of the toxic chemicals involved , but it does deny that any of the waste is radioactive . |