Example sentences of "but they [verb] [vb infin] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they do admit that it 's still more often than not a case of all talk and no action when boys discuss sex in the playground . |
| 2 | But from the point of view of the capitalist profits will be less than S. These brief remarks by no means exhaust the discussion of such problems , but they do suggest that the problem posed by collective consumption , and particularly unproductive collective consumption , is much more complex than Marx 's original propositions allowed for . |
| 3 | these figures do not show that black people are more prone crime , but they do suggest that black people who offend are more likely to go to prison . |
| 4 | Macmillan 's " War Diaries " do not indicate when the decision that he should visit Klagenfurt was taken , but they do show that on the morning of 13 May , instead of returning to Caserta , he flew on to Klagenfurt . |
| 5 | Neither Weiskrantz nor Dean argues that the whole brain is organized in modules , but they do maintain that there is sufficient evidence for modularity in enough systems for it to form a useful working hypothesis . |
| 6 | Both these examples raise issues other than the question of whether support is one-way , but they do indicate that there certainly have been historical circumstances in which people have felt that the requirement to provide financial support to parents , in circumstances where they were apparently unable to reciprocate , went well beyond their normal expectations of support between kin . |
| 7 | They know little about what they are being asked to invest in , but they do believe that the Government 's determination to make the privatisation succeed will ensure that the water authorities are presented as a steal . |
| 8 | The German Herbarium did not have a copy of the thesis , but they did advise that the botanist had moved to the United States after completion of her doctorate degree . |
| 9 | It is not that these writers were necessarily against the idea of a science of society , but they did argue that the idea and practice of social science is not as straightforward as positivism would have us believe . |
| 10 | Then he looked specifically at the effect of the results of the three month or si six month cystoscopies , but they did note that only those pa only those patients who had recurrence in the first year went on to progressive stage . |
| 11 | Churchill commented that the " British people would not easily be influenced by what happened in the distant jungles of South-East Asia ; but they did know that there was a powerful American base in East Anglia and that war with China , who would invoke the Sino-Russian Pact , might mean an assault by hydrogen bombs on these islands " . |