Example sentences of "but [verb] [prep] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ancient Egypt has been called the infancy of the soul , but coupled with that innocence is the terrible knowledge of death . |
| 2 | This species looks superficially like Amphioplus verrilli but differs from that species by the following characters : the tentacle pores usually have a rounded tentacle scale whereas verrilli has no tentacle scales and the ventral arm plates are flat not ridge as in verrilli . |
| 3 | ‘ Children in heaven do not advance beyond early manhood , but remain in that state of eternity ’ |
| 4 | But caught in that web were jots of evidence that Angie quite simply lived with every day . |
| 5 | The Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act 1875 restated the criminal offence of ‘ watching or besetting ’ but excluded from that activity ‘ attending at or near the house or place where a person resides , or works , or carries on business , or happens to be … in order merely to obtain or communicate information ’ . |
| 6 | We have heard various explanations of who these people might be and Lord does take some comfort erm from Amendment number twenty-seven in the Bill , but looking at that Amendment , I 'm afraid My Lords it does n't really take us very far . |
| 7 | The concept of " open skies " was first proposed by President Eisenhower in 1955 , but rejected at that time by the Soviet Union . |
| 8 | Well , obviously that s all I can say — Kuemann ( ? ) has a good strike too etc , but look at that company … all allegedly world class players … youd expect them to have a half decent free kick : - ) All those players are acclaimed too . |
| 9 | and I was thinking cor we say we have n't been doing very well , but look at that week there ! |
| 10 | If we now look at what happens to total product between O and O L 1 units of labour and we can see total product rising at an increasing rate , right , which implies our marginal product positive but increases over that range O to L L 1 right , between the the range O L 1 and O L 3 , right , the total product is rising but at a decreasing rate a decreasing rate that implies that the marginal product is still positive , right , but falling . |
| 11 | A good many members and officials not only said so , but acted in that manner . |
| 12 | In the instant case the words of section 6(4) of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 that fall to be construed , ‘ provision in relation to … retirement ’ , without any undue straining of the ordinary meaning of the language used , are capable of bearing either the narrow meaning accepted by the Employment Appeal Tribunal or the wider meaning preferred by the Court of Appeal but acknowledged by that court to be largely a matter of first impression . |
| 13 | But faced with that kind of opposition the Yek would simply re-form and attack again , learning from each engagement until either they discovered how to defeat their adversaries or they were wiped out . |
| 14 | But to live in that environment and make friends with people who are fairly lost is difficult . ’ |
| 15 | But to arrive at that moment , he wrote , it is necessary to be patient , it is necessary to hold back , it is often necessary to do nothing . |
| 16 | He was not suited to the world of bureaucracy and committees , but took to that job his generous and natural enthusiasm and made a great success of it . |
| 17 | There would be erm the possibility of the unitary authorities themselves getting together to prepare joint structure plans , so in as , as , instead of having a joint authority with er members joining in , in one committee to oversee the preparation of the plan , there would be individual authorities er working to their own committees with members er operating separately , but preparing through that mechanism a joint structure plan and the third option would be for each authority itself to prepare a unitary development plan , incorporating both strategic policies and the sorts of policies that we are currently seeing and familiar with in local plans . |
| 18 | Well , I think he was good player — but playing in that Liverpool side was nt difficult , and he s not really played for any other side so its hard to tell exactly how good he is . |
| 19 | One is I do n't know whether any , any of you noticed but come to that part when I reached this book , and the whole load of jokes on this page are topical they 'll be appreciated by the audience at the time . |
| 20 | But working on that film made me think about my life . |
| 21 | Ah but so did I and I did nothing but write during that time but I 've never known and everything I 've said about that is true , has turned out to be true . |