Example sentences of "but he [verb] not [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he does not represent any value , and his well handicapped stable companion DEEP SENSATION is a sensible alternative at 11–2 with Ladbrokes . |
| 2 | But he does not do that ; instead , he supports the Government 's curtailment of that right . |
| 3 | Mr Robin Cook , who wants Labour to adopt proportional representation for Westminster elections , could also be tempted to run but he does not command strong support in the party . |
| 4 | I think there must be a period for a start when the office or elsewhere is a bit on the nervous and inefficient side as smokers are deprived , but he does not mention this . |
| 5 | He mentions Home Office research suggesting that crime is not as bad as everyone thinks , but he does not mention any of the other analyses and carefully toes the party line . |
| 6 | But he does not adopt this alternative , and his criticism of needs is in fact part of a much more fundamental attack on classical economics . |
| 7 | The argument is difficult to uphold in some respects since Furth 's argument seems to be that deprivation of experience is at fault , but he does not provide any suggestions for an approach to maximising deaf people 's performance . |
| 8 | But he did not feel silly about being so careful . |
| 9 | But he did not waste much time . |
| 10 | Harold was pleased that it had been arranged , but he did not arrive unaccompanied since Haines was with him . |
| 11 | His decision to sacrifice the newspaper to MacQuillan rather than sacrifice the estate to the newspaper had not met with universal approval , but he did not let that trouble him . |
| 12 | The transfer to Florence Colliery was very close to Hem Heath and equally accessible to Mr Jones 's home but he did not accept this transfer , left and claimed redundancy . |
| 13 | Weber shared the classical elitists ' hopes for developing a systematic social science , but he did not agree that natural science methods could be simply transposed to explain social action or behaviour , since a plausible account of actors ' motives is required for completeness ( Runcimann , 1972 ) . |
| 14 | From across the street a man in a parked car watched him , but he did not know that . |
| 15 | In fact she was at that moment being put in her coffin at the workhouse , but he did not know that . |
| 16 | He himself had a beautiful voice , but he did not know all that amount of technique . |
| 17 | Boy did not throw these letters away ; he kept them all , and indeed read them not only on the day that they arrived but again and again during the week before the arrival of the next one , but he did not keep these letters in his box , and he did not reply to them either . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He thought , privately , that they might be very glad of the horses , because they might find that they came out of the Workshops much faster than they went in , but he did not say this . |