Example sentences of "but [conj] [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either she was left with the excellent non-skiing kindergarten , which she enjoyed but where she did not learn to ski , something she very much wanted to do , or she had to be put into skischool . |
| 2 | A further situation might arise , however , in which the defendant alleges belief in consent on the basis of the victim 's consent to penetration but where it did not occur to him that she might not understand the nature of the act , although the risk of this was quite obvious . |
| 3 | But he had a problem : the card she had so rapidly thrust into his hand was her business card , no home address , just Belmodes , Mouncy Street , which he knew but where he did not want to wait to visit . |
| 4 | The Lebanese delegation at the Middle East peace talks in Washington [ see p. 39119 ] informed their Israeli counterparts on Sept. 22 that Israeli airman Ron Arad was definitely alive , but that they did not know where he was being held . |
| 5 | Their weakness is not that they will not commit themselves to God but that they do not commit themselves to anything . |
| 6 | The problem is not that parents want to spike the afternoon but that they do not think . |
| 7 | What is notable about them is not that they are black , but that they do not have dogs . |
| 8 | Instead , we hold that species are real things , but that they do not have essences . |
| 9 | Has it occurred to the Minister that the problem is that there are plenty of young people camped out in the open air , but that they do not have any work ? |
| 10 | Our problem is not that we have the wrong answers to particular doubts but that we do not have the right attitude to doubt in general . |
| 11 | The burden of Mustakimzade 's argument , then , is that Molla Yegan was a mufti but not the Mufti , that he , like any other had the power of and might give fetvas when the need arose , but that he did not attain the office of Mufti . |
| 12 | At the time I believed that I surrendered completely to him but that he did not surrender completely to me . |
| 13 | The following day he told a rally of factory workers that the parliament was " imposed , nominated and illegitimate " , but that he did not have a right to dissolve it . |
| 14 | The Appeal Court today ruled that the five-year term should remain , but that he did not have to serve the extra three months . |
| 15 | I said that did I share his belief I should not contemplate what I do , but that I did not share it . |
| 16 | I said that , did I share his belief , I should not contemplate what I do , but that I did not share it . |
| 17 | His view of this " delirious " material ( note the etymology of délire ) is that it breaks the rules of language ( grammar , syntax , semantic cohesion ) but that it does not mean nothing . |
| 18 | It is recommended that the British government uses Article 20 to rehabilitate on-farm broadleaved woods in the LFA in conjunction with advice from the conservation authorities , but that it does not implement any provisions for afforestation because of the role of the Forestry Commission and private forestry companies in the UK . |
| 19 | When nuns make vows of celibacy they are saying that something is true for them in particular but that it does not belong to them . |
| 20 | Israel 's great sin was n't that it did not do good things — but that it did not obey the Law , the Torah . |
| 21 | In the first phase he confirmed that when meat powder ( an unconditioned stimulus ) was placed on the dog 's tongue a natural reflex occurred and the dog salivated ( an unconditioned response ) , but that it did not salivate solely in response to a buzzer sounded for 30 seconds , a neutral stimulus . |
| 22 | On the more difficult topic of the Pauline corpus I concluded that the evidence was equally compatible with a widely differing set of authors or a single unusually versatile author , but that it did not support the view that four epistles stood out as uniform by comparison with all others . |
| 23 | Penny Duce of the Poetry Library , who recently visited Lending Services said that the Library would be pleased to accept requests for books on BL forms , but that she did not expect to be borrowing material for SPL itself . |
| 24 | But although they do not know it , the fight is nearly over . |
| 25 | But although she did not deny it she knew nothing . |
| 26 | But if we do not think that , er or we think there are possibly problems in in relation to using protective clothing , we will also do that . |
| 27 | ‘ It is one of the fastest growing sports in Europe , but if we do not act now we will see the same kind of draconian measures becoming necessary in Britain as are already being undertaken in Europe . |
| 28 | But if we do not take their most far-reaching claims too seriously , and if we attempt to combine their insights with those stemming from more conventional social science , we can develop a form of sociology which once more has the extensive scope of the early pioneering studies . |
| 29 | Durham county council 's deputy leader , Coun. Bob Pendlebury , said : ‘ We are making immediate representations to the Government , but if we do not get a favourable response , we will have to cut back our education budget by up to £3m. to find the extra money . |
| 30 | ‘ We do n't want to trouble this family for any longer , but if we did not follow up every ‘ not known at this address ’ , we would have a short poll tax register . ’ |