Example sentences of "but [not/n't] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But not just in the way you said , ’ Barclay continued . |
| 2 | In what follows the state will be considered as a set of institutions including the Diet , judiciary , police and the bureaucracy but not simply as the location of public employees or officials . |
| 3 | There is some truth in this , but not altogether in the sense that was there intended . |
| 4 | Its old churches , green fields and long beaches were cherished by the inhabitants of Essex , Suffolk , Norfolk and Cambridgeshire , but not yet on the tourist agenda . |
| 5 | But , having it , it is a fact of grammar ( in Wittgenstein 's sense ) that it is afternoon at a place on the Earth when at that place the Sun is past the zenith but not yet over the horizon . |
| 6 | Local searches — a new motorway is a boon if sited a couple of miles away , but not right at the end of the road . |
| 7 | A sort of little ar a pathway should be cleared there of natural York paving stones , so that you bisect the marketplace , but not immediately in the middle . |
| 8 | He put out food for the rabbits , but not too near the warren . |
| 9 | This emerged as the Butt Report and was immediately rejected out of hand by the incumbent Commander-in-Chief , Bomber Command , but not so by the Army and Navy to whom the report had been leaked and who were bent on carving Bomber Command up between them for their desperate needs in the Western Approaches and in the war in the desert . |
| 10 | Even so , the evidence is consistent with a short-lived , but still powerful , backlash of support for Hitler , especially but not only among the Party faithful . |
| 11 | British Electric Traction ( BET ) , for example , was regarded as such by the Press Council and the 1974 Press Commission , but not initially by the ITA . |
| 12 | It 's er almost two years ago now that erm , and it , I 'd like you to wait , but not entirely as a consequence of B C C I 's er , demise , that Citra published a code of practice to Treasury Management and a guide to the Chief Officers who were members of that Institution . |
| 13 | Yale make one at around £5 which allows windows to open a bit for ventilation but not enough for a child to squeeze through . |
| 14 | Deborah Sherwin , prosecuting , said many of the guns were modified in order to disable them but not sufficiently in the view of scientists who examined them . |
| 15 | This is the tops in quality ; but not really within the capacity of our average kite flyer . |
| 16 | In the United Kingdom there has been extensive discussion of the ‘ quango ’ phenomenon , but not always in the context of corporatist theory . |
| 17 | According to the preamble of the Act , it has become clear that the setting up of a stock exchange was necessary for ‘ enhancing the flow of capital and for the creation of a market in securities ’ , and last but not least for the purpose of protecting the interests of investors . |
| 18 | It seemed to create that relationship , that tension between the audience and the performers which you got in a theatre , in a music-hall , but not usually in a cinema . |
| 19 | I have read for review , but not usually in the end reviewed , not a few books where this seems to have occurred . |
| 20 | Of course , people do act out of character — but not often in a matter involving almost the whole of a man 's private fortune . |
| 21 | Both seem to apply , but not quite in the way envisaged by the theory . |
| 22 | A house not in the city but not quite in the country either — safe , you see . |
| 23 | Their aim was care in the community , but not anywhere in the community ! |
| 24 | A substantial amount of prospecting may have been undertaken in some of the areas , but not necessarily for the deposit styles mentioned above . |
| 25 | This is an advantage to the consumer , but not necessarily to the manufacturer , who may well have made both ! |
| 26 | In short , if you crept up behind a chameleon and shouted ‘ boo ’ it would respond by changing colour but not necessarily to the colour of its surroundings . |
| 27 | - , and to applications ( such as PipeDream ) , but not necessarily to the filing system . |
| 28 | He was more involved with the businesses and the actual mergers than Mr Milken ever was , but not necessarily to the good . |
| 29 | Syndiotactic polymers are also sufficiently regular to crystallize , but not necessarily as a helix , rather in glide planes . |
| 30 | But not necessarily from the parent . |