Example sentences of "but not [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rowbotham , meanwhile , had been sucked into the paper , but not on to the editorial board . |
| 2 | So you may omit a parent company p&l account or a cash flow statement , but not both at the same time ! |
| 3 | In most of the early work on quantity constrained models it was assumed that any observed general unemployment had to be either classical or Keynesian but not both at the same time . |
| 4 | Wallerstein elaborated the concept of the semi-periphery to describe such countries , and this idea has been picked up by many scholars as a useful tool in analyzing the NICs and , increasingly , those countries that are on the fringes of the First World , but not exactly in the Third World , like Ireland , Portugal , and the Balkan states ( for example , Mouzelis , 1986 ) . |
| 5 | All too often these prerequisites were withheld , especially but not exclusively in the early stages of the Programme . |
| 6 | Instead , Professor Hartshorne settled in Vienna to research the history of modern Geography , mainly but not exclusively in the German-speaking lands . |
| 7 | A third means of finding data for certain areas of research , particularly but not exclusively in the social sciences , is to look at information previously collected by someone else for their own purposes . |
| 8 | There is a good deal of evidence to suggest that managerial and technical talent flows from the domestic sector to the transnational companies rather than vice versa , particularly but not exclusively in the Third World ( see Gershenberg , 1987 , on Kenya ; Okada , 1983 , on Indonesia ) . |
| 9 | From a socio-economic point of view , the low-input/low-output farm , which predominates especially , but not exclusively in the Mediterranean and upland regions , can be said to be an adaptation to the extremely difficult conditions under which it operates . |
| 10 | Arpeggios sound best when placed in the middle and upper reaches of the instrument ( but not right at the very top ) . |
| 11 | The inclusion of the former originated less from public concern over any alleged malpractice than from lack of confidence , felt mainly but not wholly within the legal profession , in procedures whereby ultimate responsibility for prosecuting as well as investigating in the vast majority of cases rested with the police . |
| 12 | ( It has gone up a bit since then , but not back to the post-1945 level . ) |
| 13 | But not usually in the early morning . |
| 14 | There are interesting telescopic objects in Boo¨tes , but not much for the binocular observer . |
| 15 | The headlines often reflect this focus on the alleged offender 's occupation , but not quite to the same extent as in the attacks on males . |
| 16 | And I think , yes we will do all that but not quite to the extreme and we should try now and sell more during the year and really see how the flow goes . |
| 17 | The stretcher across the back of the chair will similarly have angled shoulders , but not necessarily at the same angle as the seat rail , as the back legs may taper away towards the bottom ; indeed they generally do . |
| 18 | Buying a soon-to-be-obsolete car can be a saving in the short term , but not necessarily in the long term . |
| 19 | In the first type of case , but not necessarily in the second , the consent is a response to a proposal initiated by another . |
| 20 | It is hard to resolve this trade-off a priori , but one possibility is to allow all firms to participate in a co-operative project , but not necessarily in the same project , using competition between co-operative R&D projects to inhibit the generation of some of the negative externalities discussed above . |