Example sentences of "but not [noun] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In these circumstances the courts will find that the plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence but not volens to the risk ( Owens v Brimmell [ 1977 ] QB 859 ) . |
| 2 | The as yet unnamed company will compete for contracts from high technology companies , but not ones in the computer industry because of the competition this would create with IBM . |
| 3 | Ghannouchi denied the charges from Paris , telling Radio France International on May 23 that his movement had supporters but not militants inside the army and was opposed to military coups . |
| 4 | The Senate initially voted , on Dec. 10 , to bring Dufoix and Hervé but not Fabius before the court . |
| 5 | What characterises these speaker-initiated insertion sequences , then , is that the London English part of the speaker 's turn is a sequence embedded in the turn but not part of the mainstream ; it does not necessarily start at a syntactic clause completion point ( for example ( 8 ) , where it begins after a subject pronoun ) and its purpose is to elicit information , or check on information to make it possible for the speaker to complete the current turn ( Sebba and Wootton 1984 : 4 ) . |
| 6 | That the situation was as it was , and hence that certain events did not and certain events did occur , is indeed much of our reason for asserting the conditional statement but not part of the statement . |
| 7 | Roman Catholics could be tolerated but not pseudo-Romanists in the guise of Anglo-Catholics . |
| 8 | Interestingly , Egypt described the Memorandum as changing the United States ' role from one of ‘ partner ’ ( but not party to the Peace Treaty ) to one of ‘ arbiter ’ which it considered inappropriate . |