Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] but not [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Staff understand the reasons for the Government and Commercial split but not the isolation of Services , in general giving rise to ‘ Cynicism and demotivation and reducing productivity . ’ |
| 2 | It is an interesting idea but not a solution to the problem . |
| 3 | Grigson , writing in The Listener , was equally forthright : he found in Minton 's work interesting prose but not a poetry of interpretation . |
| 4 | It will be gravely libellous if he is a drunken driver but not a terrorist . |
| 5 | Such an alliance was popular with many back benchers:James Hope , lately Chairman of Ways and Means , suggested , ‘ a composite Government but not a coalition . |
| 6 | Can afford a two- or three-bedroom semi-detached house but not a car |
| 7 | Over the fifteen years that Motability has been established , there have been powerful disagreements but not a whisper of hostility . |
| 8 | So United States courts have declared invalid service which met the requirements of state law or of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure but which did not meet the terms of the convention and a Netherlands court has refused to grant exequatur to a Belgian judgment granted after service which complied with Belgian law but not the convention 's requirements . |
| 9 | John How was a solid good preacher but not a magnet to multitudes . |
| 10 | It might be that this season will be his last chance , that he is a manager who can win Cups with short sprints but not the silverware that goes with marathons . |
| 11 | For Opposition Members to suggest that we should have nuclear weapons but not the ability to test shows how little they understand the responsibility that lies with a nuclear power . |
| 12 | Control subjects experienced the critical cues but not the sucrose . |
| 13 | The equations in ( 6.20 ) embody the hypothesis of rational expectations but not the assumption of structural neutrality . |
| 14 | We 've got some small ones but not a lot I do n't suppose . |
| 15 | Domestic technology affects particular tasks but not the job of housework as a whole . ) |
| 16 | The next thing er which again er is er a detail of something which is already approved and it is merely than in our conditions of service during our discussions with the city er personnel department we noted , or they noted as it had arisen that we indicated the route to erm sick pay over a certain period and before a certain period but not the detail of how you got there . |
| 17 | In Western Europe this was the beginning of the Renaissance and the change from Medievalism to classicism ; in Russia also there was a new era but not a Renaissance . |
| 18 | The teaching has given the pupils the necessary facts but not the help to consolidate understanding in writing ( or indeed in talk ) , nor to master the compositional abilities to realise the understanding successfully . |