Example sentences of "[noun] but [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A wide variety of things could be construed as ‘ approaching ’ violence but to use that expression while condemning the violence of the previous day and to do so in a critique of Paisley while failing to mention the Cromac Square rioters is to exaggerate . |
| 2 | motorist admits to not seeing boy who came from opposite pavement but accepted that motorist had only limited opportunity for seeing him . |
| 3 | The US company Du Pont acknowledged the same day that it had exported to Iraq a special lubricant used for nuclear weapons but stressed that permission to do so had been granted by the US government in 1989 . |
| 4 | He ends up with the non-voice of Mark Knopfler but given that gentleman 's sales figures ( Dire Straits ' Brothers In Arms was the UK 's best-selling album of the 1980s ) Geldof will hardly complain about the comparison . |
| 5 | ( On Aug. 13 the Abidjan appeals court freed Kacou but ordered that Koffi should serve the remainder of his sentence , until Sept. 7 . ) |
| 6 | To put this a slightly different way : a contract which fixes prices but specifies that output will equal whatever is demanded must ex ante be sub-optimal for firms . |
| 7 | By King James 's will , she is made Regent but forfeits that position by marrying the Earl of Angus . |