Example sentences of "but not [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took slightly more interest in his two sons , Arthur and Alan , but not through any natural preference for them ; it was simply that with them he knew better what questions should be asked . |
| 2 | Two senses of door may be observed in 48 , which can be truthfully answered either ‘ Yes ’ or ‘ No ’ in the following situation : the door in question has a ‘ cat-flap ’ , and is standing open ; the cat goes through the cat-flap , but not through the doorway : |
| 3 | Yes , but not through Auden . |
| 4 | NatWest put in £250,000 but not through the Money Advice Trust . ’ |
| 5 | But not through January and February . |
| 6 | According to this view you can reach for security through self-help — individual action , or action in small groups of like-minded people — but not through reliance on big bureaucracies . |
| 7 | but not through mud , not through water . |
| 8 | So we 're down to Guildford but not through Guildford . |
| 9 | Thus the first of these groups learned a discrimination between A and C but not between A and B ; the second learned a discrimination between A and B but C and A received the same treatments . |
| 10 | The coolness between the two men , but not between the sisters , continued until one day when Edward was obliged to seek medical advice . |
| 11 | But not between the last two words : |
| 12 | There was a positive correlation between platelet activating factor precursors and acid or pepsin output but not between platelet activating factor precursors and sialic acid . |
| 13 | There was a significant correlation between faecal fat and amount of malabsorbed carbohydrate ( r=0.60 , F 1 , 1 7 =9.70 , p=0.006 ) and faecal fat and stool wet weight ( r=0.57 , F 1 , 1 8 =8.67 , p<0.009 ) , but not between stool wet weight and amount of malabsorbed carbohydrate ( r=0.28 , F 1 , 1 7 =1.45 , p=0.25 ) . |
| 14 | There was a significant correlation between faecal fat and amount of malabsorbed carbohydrate ( y=3.25+0.88x , r=0.60 , F 1 , 1 7 =9.70 , p=0.006 ) ( Fig 3 ) , as well as between faecal fat and stool wet weight ( y=146.70+7.13x , r=0.57 , F 1 , 1 8 =8.67 , p<0.002 ) , but not between stool wet weight and amount of malabsorbed carbohydrate ( r=0.28 , F 1 , 1 7 =1.45 , p=0.25 ) . |
| 15 | The holder is entitled to sell or supply alcoholic liquor for consumption on the premises but not off the premises , when food and non-alcoholic beverages are also on sale . |
| 16 | Everyone remembered him as a big man in all senses but not as a good headmaster except that he liked everyone and everyone liked him and in chapel he was a superlative speaker . |
| 17 | He left behind him the impression — but not as if he had ever meant to say it — that anyone who disagreed with him must really be rather stupid . |
| 18 | Society reacted to it , the organs of law reacted to it and eventually but not as a result of direct cause and effect — it is something more subtle than that — it went out of fashion . |
| 19 | ‘ . Primitive and child are again linked , but not as the second childhood of ‘ The Hollow Men ’ . |
| 20 | Those who will continue to do so will be there of their own free will as status bearers of the nuclear family , a role common enough among English women , but not as possessions . |
| 21 | ‘ But not as a matter of influence as such . |
| 22 | Nor do they intend to underwrite other banks ' loans if the firm goes under ; they say they will take part in rescues , but not as guarantors . |
| 23 | Is the covenant a relation between God and Jewish males , in which Jewish women are included under it , but not as persons who enter into the contract in their own right ? |
| 24 | Another death , but not as a result of the War , was that of Alfred Caldecott , a founder bondholder of some significance , who in 1913 had become Town Clerk after J.F. Cooper and simultaneously also a Partner in Cooper Son & Caldecott . |
| 25 | Many societies have been conserving the environment perfectly well for millennia , and have integrated conservation into cultivation practices , but not as an explicit programme . |
| 26 | They re-entered general service in 1947 , but not as train sets . |
| 27 | He praised the US Environmental Protection Agency — ‘ an independent body of scientists who undertake research and research evaluation as a service to government ( but not as a spokesman for government ) . |
| 28 | We may also gain — but not as a right — valued sons and daughters-in-law and grandchildren to love and enjoy . |
| 29 | Even the ‘ nightwatchman ’ state of nineteenth century England did this , but not as an active and necessary persona . |
| 30 | You want to stand out in the assessor 's mind but not as an insensitive bully trying to throw your weight around . |