Example sentences of "but [adj] is not [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The twentieth century has become notorious for its rejections of rationality , but that is not a case , as with Pascal , of pushing thought to its limit and finding it wanting . |
| 2 | Obviously , companies prefer automatic grant , but that is not a justification from the government 's point of view ( Begg and McDowell , 1987 ) . |
| 3 | Initially , they are stressful but that is not a reason to avoid them . |
| 4 | But that is not a view held by those who lack the imagination to enter into the hearts and minds of others , and to do to them as they would be done by ; among them the then Home Secretary and the then Lord Chief Justice . |
| 5 | There is a partial line on the map which I think this Council agreed before my time but that is not a line which could be implemented because it starts from nowhere and goes to nowhere and we are still I believe in , in , in limbo so far as the exact route which might be proposed either the northern or the southern end . |
| 6 | If my wife and I both go then the car is cheaper by £10 , but that is not a lot to pay for the increased safety of rail travel , the convenience of not having to take a car into London and indeed the fact that we can read or go to sleep on the train . |
| 7 | But that is not the way things work . |
| 8 | But that is not the choice that faces an individual soldier . |
| 9 | But that is not the kind of answer I want to give . |
| 10 | The right hon. Gentleman may be prepared to hand over the government of this country to trade unions abroad , but that is not the position of the Conservative party . |
| 11 | The eminent weekend ‘ assessors ’ are no doubt most conscientious in their task and , despite the apparent absence of a ‘ score card ’ , come to their conclusions in inviolate objectivity , but that is not the whole of the process . |
| 12 | My own view is that connectionism ( see Chapter 7 ) is well placed to provide such a computational account of sensorimotor development ; but that is not the issue here . |
| 13 | But that is not the issue . |
| 14 | ( In the Soviet state more , perhaps , than in the United Kingdom , but that is not the issue . ) |
| 15 | They will both claim that they were unfairly dismissed because the other was the culprit but that is not the issue . |
| 16 | These slightly rolling hills appear to be folded out of the surface of the earth , but that is not the case ; they are part of a dissected tableland . |
| 17 | But that is not the case . |
| 18 | But that is not the case . |
| 19 | But that is not the case , it 's not the case . |
| 20 | Clearly , the fundholding uptake will not be mirrored across the country , but that is not the case in Derbyshire . |
| 21 | I am committed to Nottinghamshire miners , which is hardly surprising — but that is not the case , or has not been , with Labour . |
| 22 | ‘ But that is not the case . |
| 23 | But that is not the case with lovely Wensleydale Cheese . |
| 24 | If it was a ramshackle building where no-one wanted to live , fair enough , but that is not the case . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ But that is not the matter at issue . ’ |
| 26 | And we 've got to believe , but that is not the reason for him doing it . |
| 27 | But that is not the point . |
| 28 | Further investigation may yet prove Leakey wrong and the academic experts right , but that is not the point . |
| 29 | But that is not the point . |
| 30 | ( Actually , the Brits are right about the European space effort , but that is not the point . ) |