Example sentences of "[noun] but [pron] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Culture and identity are part of the story of racial sensibility but they do not exhaust that story . |
| 2 | Jean-Claude may have had artistic integrity on his side but he did not have a legal leg to stand on . |
| 3 | These ‘ structuralists ’ may lack a common programme but they do not lack a common ancestry . |
| 4 | ‘ There is tight security at our homes but we do not want to have to put bars over the windows . ’ |
| 5 | He waved weakly after the car but he did not speak as Rose shut the door and they turned back into the house . |
| 6 | Rovers enjoyed a heavy advantage in penalties before half-time but it did not do them a lot of good . |
| 7 | This may have always been the case with anthropology but we did not have to live with the results if our field was in Africa or Asia . |
| 8 | ‘ We do hope Mr De Klerk gets his mandate but I do not want to say there will be a review of policy in our dealings with his administration . |
| 9 | This unruffled progression fits perfectly the sort of chain of correlations of consequences which we disentangled at the start of this chapter but it does not seem to offer the prospect of the decisive determination of a particular result . |
| 10 | we will provide you with a new schedule for your guidance but you do not have to complete it unless you want to . |
| 11 | If you normally work 4 days a week and lose 1 day , you meet the requirements of the 3 out of 6 rule but you do not meet the requirements of ‘ substantial loss of employment ’ . |
| 12 | to a particular institution but who do not go on to enrol there or anywhere else ( we have called them ‘ non-enrollers ’ ) |
| 13 | Ms Hyslop added : ‘ There are those who were unhappy with the parliamentary group 's vote but who do not want to see months of infighting within the party . ’ |
| 14 | A legal system must take steps to control the use of force but it does not have to be totally successful in order to remain a legal system . |
| 15 | Mr Airlie conceded that there might be some residual animosity towards the electricians but he did not envisage any problems in taking the union into the TUC . |
| 16 | The atmosphere over Europe lost 15 to 20 per cent of its protective ozone layer during the winter but it does not have a full-scale " ozone hole " , an international scientific team has said . |
| 17 | The woman had no hope of escape but she did not seek one , revelling in the moment of attention from a Government Man . |
| 18 | Hence we might find instances of accuracy in the production of such formulas as fixed phrases but it does not follow that the learner can transfer the accurate production of forms to a wider range of constructions and contexts . |
| 19 | The smith obviously needed fuel and metal to carry out his work but we do not know the extent to which the smith was dependent on local resources as opposed to trade , nor the size and structure of the industry . |
| 20 | The severe disablement allowance replaces the non-contributory invalidity pension and the housewives ' non-contributory invalidity pension ( HNCIP ) , which was payable to married women who were unable to take paid work but who did not have sufficient contributions to claim invalidity benefit itself . |
| 21 | The relief applies where an individual who is domiciled outside the United Kingdom receives a benefit but he does not receive the benefit in the United Kingdom . |
| 22 | Paraprofessional workers are defined as those persons who are engaged in the provision of social care or social services to individuals , families , groups and communities but who do not have professional training or qualifications . |
| 23 | People sometimes say they bear no malice but I do not know how they can say that . |
| 24 | Obstructive symptoms then resulted in a further small bowel resection but he did not achieve remission despite prednisolone . |
| 25 | ( 2 ) In the epistemic sense of ‘ appears ’ it makes no sense to say that the sea appears to be blue to someone but he does not know it , or that line AB appears to him to be shorter than line BC but he does not know it , or that the young lady/old woman figure appears to him to be a drawing of a young lady but he does not know it . |
| 26 | At present , Josephson is unable to offer an explanation of psychic energy and its effects but he does not doubt that it is ‘ positive , a genuine phenomenon ’ . |
| 27 | Yoshida wished to see Japan restored to true independence but he did not wish to see Japanese armed forces re-created . |
| 28 | Jersey , Guernsey and the Isle of Man offer investor protection schemes equivalent to those on the mainland but they do not cover deposits . |
| 29 | This is certainly a more plausible general background to the revolt but it does not explain why Eleanor rebelled in 1173 and not at any other time . |
| 30 | It would have been better than staying at home but I did not want to wear a school uniform . |