Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] [that] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We might even have had a decent election and the country might have been saved a good deal earlier , but everyone knows that that is how we got here . |
| 2 | But everyone sees that this is absurd . |
| 3 | You must of course deal with the odd letters of criticism , but I trust that these can be viewed in proportion to those ( probably thousands ) of satisfied members , who are nevertheless unlikely to write in every month to say so . |
| 4 | During the time that I was at MainMan , David had become more and more removed from us , but I figured that that was because he was so busy and that was the way it was when you had become a big star . |
| 5 | But I knew that that was where God wanted me to be because it was such a miracle . |
| 6 | Yes , I was leaving alone , but I knew that this was only for the journey . |
| 7 | Er , can I say that it 's been a great pleasure coming er , to you and to say that erm that there 's far more to say , of course , about Canberra er , but I hope that that taster will help you to try and appreciate what went on there . |
| 8 | Since I happen to be English , I have oriented the chart here for northern observers , but I hope that those in the south will forgive me . |
| 9 | I deny that there were any evictions ; they may have got letters of removal , but I deny that these were any evictions in the sense of evictions . " |
| 10 | It caused some mirth amongst my friends , but I noticed that several of them began to pin up similar notices in their own homes . |
| 11 | ‘ But I said that all matters relating to players were Trevor Francis 's domain . |
| 12 | But I stress that this is a negative agreement — B by agreeing not to negotiate for this fixed period with a third party , locks himself out of such negotiations . |
| 13 | One of my friends said he was a romantic boy who thought he bore a charmed life , but I argued that this was a superficial judgment . |
| 14 | There are no sex reversed species and mammals have , if anything , exaggerated the fundamental differences er in sex , but I emphasise that this is based on quantitative factors , erm , there 's nothing qualitative about this . |
| 15 | But I know that such a talented writer . |
| 16 | I know your mother had been ill for some time , but I know that this will not have lessened the loss you and your family must now feel . |
| 17 | But I like that half of the room with the chair and the telly |
| 18 | Yes I I would agree with that but I wondered , I think perhaps it should be the finance committee , I mean cos I understood that most of these these items are contained within the existing budget , because I mean the individual committees do have have the power to the monies within their own , and I it has it I would agree with Peter that if we have gone over and above the that the committee were working to but I understood that that was not the case , so I . |
| 19 | But I understood that many in the battalions — some of Soares 's people apart-soldiered even more poorly than their already mediocre training and leadership might have led an expert onlooker to anticipate . |
| 20 | I showed the article to my wife — a mathematician — and asked her to remind me about ‘ eigen analysis of the covariance matrix [ z ] ’ etc , but I gather that such analysis is not exactly commonplace or entirely obvious ! |
| 21 | We have had a lot of delay getting suitable material from John Ranford and Chris Roles regarding Will Aid but I gather that this is now to be ready by the end of the month and hopefully Euan will be starting at the beginning of July if we can plan accordingly . |
| 22 | Among the audience cited in the introduction are the ‘ environmentally concerned general public , but I fear that this growing band will be lost within the first 20 pages . |
| 23 | Fair enough he may have had a very good reason for doing so but I thought that that would have been a typical apack erm he did say well you know I just want to run it by him , you know , just to make sure but you , you still needed to know why he thought that his accountant had to be involved . |
| 24 | I still was n't feeling strong or back to my normal fitness , but I thought that some fresh air would do me good ( well that was my excuse anyway ! ) . |
| 25 | Axelrod had already begun to think in ESS terms , but I felt that this tendency was so important that I wrote to him suggesting that he should get in touch with W. D. Hamilton , who was then , though Axelrod did n't know it , in a different department of the same university , the University of Michigan . |
| 26 | But I doubt that such a romantic vision really matches the truth . |
| 27 | No doubt some contemporaries of the journalists who uncovered Watergate accused them of partisan bias and lack of balance — but I doubt that any of these commentators would have drawn an analogy between this investigative reporting and the repeated and transparently mendacious press statements of the Nixon Administration . |
| 28 | The Chancellor gives selective statistics , but I suppose that all our statistics are , to an extent , selective . |
| 29 | If the Minister can identify any objective professional evidence that five years is the period needed , that would be very interesting , but I believe that all the expert evidence that he received supported a period of seven years . |
| 30 | I support the Bill because it seeks to address a serious problem , but I believe that that problem is greater than it appears to be . |