Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] [that] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | But everyone sees that this is absurd . |
| 2 | Yes , I was leaving alone , but I knew that this was only for the journey . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It 's going to be difficult for everybody but I believe that this is a period when again it rather highlights er the priorities in terms of what clubs and members actually want and what they are prepared to work for . |
| 11 | The majority of the fry are eaten but I think that this is a case of survival of the fittest in the confines of a community tank . |
| 12 | I do not want to embarrass anyone or to moralise , but I feel that this is an area in which modern Christians have been caught in the net of secularisation without realising it . |
| 13 | To devote five chapters to intonation may seem excessive , but I feel that this is necessary since the subject is difficult and complex , and needs to be explained at considerable length if the explanation is to be intelligible . |
| 14 | I am not sure which part of South America this comes from but I suspect that this species comes from Brazil . |
| 15 | But she knew that this was more important . |
| 16 | The nightmare thing , the thing they had said was her brother ( but she knew that this was impossible ) had killed him on the staircase . |
| 17 | Dawn was advised that she might obtain more money if she went to court , but she felt that this would be too hard for her emotionally , even though she had no memory of the accident or indeed of the friend who had died . |
| 18 | But we know that this is not the case . |
| 19 | He 's mentioned in dispatches in a message to seven MPs , including George Galloway , Bernie Grant and Tony Benn , addressed by the committee as follows : ‘ Dear Friends : Thank you for your interest in the Geneva conference arranged for 3 and 4 April , but we regret that this has been postponed to allow discussions to take place elsewhere . |
| 20 | We emphasis that the information available at press date may become out of date by the time of publication , but we believe that this will apply only if additional deployments are announced or revealed . |
| 21 | The atmosphere is hardly lightened when guitarist Alex Lee takes a pissed stagediver to task , but one suspects that this is precisely the kind of turmoil Strangelove get their kicks from . |
| 22 | Members of the European Parliament have endorsed EC Commission plans for an ‘ immense ’ programme for testing chemicals for their environmental risks — but they fear that this will lead to a proliferation of tests involving animals . |
| 23 | They concede that the Church 's policy of rotating the Moderator every year can pose some difficulties for broadcasters and newspapers in terms of availability and profile , but they argue that this can be overcome and does not explain all the recent exclusions from discussions . |
| 24 | They showed that such models could start with a big bang , even though the galaxies were no longer always moving directly away from each other , but they claimed that this was still only possible in certain exceptional models in which the galaxies were all moving in just the right way . |
| 25 | Yeah , but they reckon that this is the same shark , he 's killed twice now . |
| 26 | But he continued that this concern was quite natural because whenever something new emerges in the cultural/ideological area , those who are concerned about the future of China become nervous . |
| 27 | In his own words , the head had " always made a substantial allocation of money from capitation to the library in addition to that which was designated " library " " , but he felt that this designated sum was " never sufficient " . |
| 28 | The formulation of a course for validation placed a greater burden on college resources than offering a centrally devised course but he felt that this was offset by the ability which a college now had to react quickly and flexibly to meet local demands . |
| 29 | But he said that this case is not about money but about the contract which effectively it 's argued is a restraint of trade . |
| 30 | But he knew that this was not actually so , not really the case . |