Example sentences of "[noun] but [verb] not [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my judgment , paragraph ( b ) , like paragraph ( a ) , provides a remedy but does not create any new substantive rights or causes of action . |
| 2 | Make the ‘ low flags ’ area a nonstopping zone that is , retain the bus stops on the High Row side but do not allow any stopping at all on the lower side , say , from Woolworths to the Tubwell Row corner . |
| 3 | The Court of Session agreed on the issue of unfair prejudice but did not accept that , because unfair prejudice had not been found , it would be inappropriate to make an order for the winding up of the company . |
| 4 | The company owned and hired out barges but did not employ any of the union men , but their action meant that barges were not returned and so the company 's business came to a standstill . |
| 5 | Evening Primrose Oil ( e.g. Efamol ) is helpful for PMT but does not contain any vitamins or minerals . |
| 6 | Water is drawn over the disc but does not get close enough to the roots to damage them . |
| 7 | Lee suggested that other political and constitutional reforms would be accomplished within two years but did not give any further details . |
| 8 | Joyce would be a super group leader but does not run any classes ( YET ! ! ! ! ! ) |
| 9 | It follows from the above case that Reg 2(1) of the UK Regulations does not comply with Community law , since the UK Regulations currently state that ‘ undertaking ’ includes any trade or business but does not include any undertaking or part of an undertaking that is not in the nature of a commercial venture . |
| 10 | The changes in gastric total vitamin C and the juice:plasma ratio were also higher in the H pylori eradicated group but did not reach statistical significance ( 2p=0.14 and 0.11 respectively ; Mann-Whitney ) . |
| 11 | Assistance from the community nursing service , social workers and day or respite facilities can relieve some of the pressure on carers but do not provide any long term solution to the attendant social and emotional deprivation of people living restricted and sometimes insular existences . |
| 12 | 17 , in which wives became contractually bound in support of their husband 's debts but did not provide any security over their property , stand a little aloof from the principles I have been discussing . |
| 13 | Common sense also suggests that there are many people who drink before attending sporting contests but do not become involved in fighting . |
| 14 | As the water is recycled through the system it is exposed to germicidal radiation , which clears algae but does not produce sterile water . |
| 15 | The high specificity of serotonin reuptake inhibitors , without antagonism of neurotransmitter receptors or direct cardiac effects , has led to the expectation that they have the same antidepressant activity as tricyclic and related antidepressants but do not produce many of the common side effects . |
| 16 | Billy goes out shooting every day but does not get much as his only weapons are a tennis bat and empty cartridge case which he hits at the birds . |
| 17 | If the colour dries on the paper but does not look right , I found that by carefully washing over with water and then gently lifting out as before , unwanted passages can be partially or completely taken off . |
| 18 | The examples of partial shifts provided by the Department of Health look reasonable on paper but do not take annual or study leave into account . |
| 19 | Also in 1818 Coffey , by then acting inspector-general of excise , published his Observations on Chichester 's pamphlet , in which he restated the official policy but did not produce any very convincing arguments or evidence in its justification . |
| 20 | He should be told that the specimen of breath which he has given containing the lower proportion of alcohol exceeds the statutory limit but does not exceed 50 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath ; that in these circumstances he is entitled to claim to have this specimen replaced by a specimen of blood or urine if he wishes ; but that , if he does so , it will be for the constable to decide whether the replacement specimen is to be of blood or urine and that if the constable requires a specimen of blood it will be taken by a doctor unless the doctor considers that there are medical reasons for not taking blood , when urine may be given instead . |
| 21 | The Conservative leaders expressed their preference for contributory pensions but did not restrain many of their backbenchers from voting for it . |
| 22 | It was at the conference in the Vatican mentioned earlier that I first put forward the suggestion that maybe time and space together formed a surface that was finite in size but did not have any boundary or edge . |
| 23 | At 31 March 1991 , Harland Simon held 50% of the equity share capital of Perfect Information but did not treat this as an associated undertaking because the investment was held for the short term and was disposed of in August 1991 . |
| 24 | In line with UN guidelines , it takes stock of the situation but does not contain any specific conclusions or recommendations . |
| 25 | She suggests that this was perhaps because women have traditionally been seen as having a passive relation to language which is similar to that of a simultaneous interpreter who translates the ideas of others but does not produce any of her own ( 32 ) . |
| 26 | This will apply where at least two of the firms earn £170million or more of that turnover in the EC but do not earn more than two-thirds of their total turnover in a single EC country . |
| 27 | But a decade later , French observers continued to lament the absence in most of the 12 other member-states of ESA of strong centralized and specialized space policy-making bodies such as the CNES : ‘ In Germany , the DFVLR covers a much wider sector than that of the CNES but does not exercise political responsibility ; in Britain , responsibility is dispersed among the end-users such as British Telecom . ’ |
| 28 | Thus all three of these techniques : programme budgeting , specialty costing and patient costing , are of some value but do not overcome all the limitations of departmental budgets . |
| 29 | Gildas writing in the mid-sixth century gives no detail of the battle and Bede in 731 mentions Vortigern and Hengist but does not specify any location . |
| 30 | He must respect it , recognising that it is God 's creation and that he exercises dominion as a trustee but does not possess exclusive proprietary rights as owner . |