Example sentences of "but [vb mod] [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because A you 're not wasting the time , you 're not worrying about the post sort , you 're getting the stuff quicker , you 've got the thing logged in and logged out erm so to , to a great extent , I mean er we should be ab I personally think that we should actually s be trying s we should be expecting to see an advantage but let's just take that as as , as , as neutral so that you have n't got a er a worsening situation and you have n't taken adva taken advantage of any |
| 2 | This should make life a little easier for the prosecutor , but let's not forget that the prosecutor only deals in terms of the crimes , with violence that has occurred , and the violence that has occurred is of course something which has gone wrong in society . |
| 3 | Nothing wrong with that , of course , but let's not pretend that one can really make a decent living just by turning wood . |
| 4 | The bureau is hard pressed for staff but may nevertheless decide that such work has wider positive influence . |
| 5 | The newly retired partner is often prepared to do more around the house , but may not realise that there is a difference between being helpful and fully sharing domestic responsibilities . |
| 6 | We did n't want to change her words , but should perhaps explain that Geordies often use ‘ us ’ instead of ‘ me ’ . |
| 7 | Sometimes they possessed knowledge about sex , but could not admit that this was sexual , or that they had those sorts of desires . |
| 8 | ‘ Gross exaggeration , ’ Fabia laughed , but could n't deny that she had been a great fan of the Czech composers , and still was . |
| 9 | He tried to remember if his parents had quarrelled the holidays before she died , but could n't remember that they had . |
| 10 | He said that he understood this and was sorry , but could only add that the deaf community regarded the birth of each and every deaf child as a precious gift . |
| 11 | This implies that the exiles enjoyed a certain status in his court , but need not mean that he envisaged actively espousing their cause , or had become dissatisfied about Emma 's union with Cnut . |
| 12 | These principles would accept both the formal approach of letters rogatory and the informal approach of direct ( and usually postal ) service , but would also note that no such service would be sufficient of itself to extend the jurisdiction of the state of origin . |
| 13 | He said there could be changes , but would not confirm that the St. |
| 14 | Just as an economist can grant that religious beliefs have a bearing on market behaviour but will not allow that they are a primary force , so Realism insists that power is the key . |
| 15 | Angered by suggestions that his conduct was inexplicable and that he had not offered any constructive criticism during a 3½ hour inquest into Yorkshire 's dismal summer , Boycott claimed that the cricket sub-committee would not accept any form of responsibility : ‘ They have been in charge for five of the last six years but will not agree that they are at least partly to blame for the fact that Yorkshire cricket is in a mess . ’ |
| 16 | At this time in the morning , I shall not go into the details of the report but will simply say that the Committee was shocked by what it found . |
| 17 | Some species may be receiving sufficient light to grow plenty of healthy foliage , but will always lack that little extra needed to produce flowering shoots . |
| 18 | The Bishop believes in evolution , but can not believe that natural selection is an adequate explanation for the course that evolution has taken ( partly because , like many others , he sadly misunderstands natural selection to be " random " and " meaningless ' ) . |
| 19 | We are unable to explain why vitamin B12 absorption decreased during treatment with loperamide oxide , but can only comment that the magnitude of the change was relatively small . |