Example sentences of "but [not/n't] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone remembered him as a big man in all senses but not as a good headmaster except that he liked everyone and everyone liked him and in chapel he was a superlative speaker . |
| 2 | New York-based Judith Barry 's installation is also uninspiring , didactically retracing familiar issues to do with the dehumanising implications of technology , its potential to control rather than serve humankind. computer generated references to the history of communications fleet across the floorspace between two walls of words , one written as mirror writing but not as a direct reflection of the other . |
| 3 | Many societies have been conserving the environment perfectly well for millennia , and have integrated conservation into cultivation practices , but not as an explicit programme . |
| 4 | You want to stand out in the assessor 's mind but not as an insensitive bully trying to throw your weight around . |
| 5 | She looked shocked , but not about the dead body . |
| 6 | If my submission is accepted in the inspector 's report , it is possible that it would be consistent with approved greenbelt policy to have an inset new settlement avoiding the greenbelt but not outside the outer boundary of the York greenbelt . |
| 7 | An implication of differentiation theory but not of the associative theory , therefore , is that mere exposure to a pair of stimuli without their being followed by any special consequences should be enough to enhance their discriminability . |
| 8 | Therefore , a person could be guilty of the most serious non-fatal assault but not of the lesser assault ! |
| 9 | He requested a bottle of red wine , but not of the common kind . |
| 10 | Atherton argues that the mass of the American people remain committed to support for the ‘ genuinely poor , sick , disabled and disadvantaged ’ , but not to a redistributive welfare programme . |
| 11 | Lesson observation has been used , but not to a great extent , by half of Oxfordshire teachers . |
| 12 | Owen had been to the Coptic Cathedral before but not to a Coptic church ; so he was surprised to find that most of the congregation appeared to be on crutches . |
| 13 | The concentration of phospholipids was also higher in the cholesterol gall stone patients but not to a significant degree . |
| 14 | Previous studies have shown that hepatic bile from cholesterol gall stone patients provides a greater total lipid concentration but not to a significant degree compared with controls . |
| 15 | The relative distribution of vesicular cholesterol in hepatic bile of the cholesterol gall stone patients was higher than that of the gall stone free patients , but not to a significant extent ( 42.3 ( 14.9 ) % v 21.9 ( 21.0 ) % ) . |
| 16 | Here , indications for hydrothermal activity along Hercynian striking fractures were found , so that a strong but short heat supply may be assumed , leading to local coalification maxima but not to a significant loss of reservoir porosity . |
| 17 | This does erupt , but not to a defined time schedule . |
| 18 | The Secretary of State rather coyly referred to the increase in Scottish Homes ' total funding , but not to the overall position . |
| 19 | Similarly , the title of mayor or lord mayor where retained adds to the social status but not to the legal position of the person holding the chair of the council . |
| 20 | When an old woman on the mountain curtseys to Marco , when a priest takes the boys to the cave where loyalists have gathered and shows them a portrait of the historic Ivor , the story rises to a climax , but not to the final climax . |
| 21 | Papua New Guinea , for example , may conjure up ideas of tropical jungles which could well appeal to would-be explorer executives but not to the home-loving family types . |
| 22 | If the stimulus is removed for a period , the cell response recovers , but not to the original level . |
| 23 | This ‘ molecular bridging ’ approach was successful ( but inefficient ) when viral particles were coupled to human MHC class I and class II antigens 27 , but not to the human transferrin receptor 28 , and suggests that only a limited number of cell surface antigens can function as surrogate receptors for MoMLV particles . |
| 24 | The serum contained antibodies to the virus proteins VP2 , VP6 and VP7 , but not to the non-structural protein NS1 . |
| 25 | The distribution and quantitative expression of pre-S1 and pre-S2 , however , were closely related to the status of hepatitis B virus replication , but not to the histological activity . |
| 26 | The distribution and quantitative expression of pre-S peptides in the liver , however , were closely related to the status of hepatitis B virus replication , but not to the histological activity . |
| 27 | He ruled that damages were due for the effects of surfactants but not for a small presence of phosphates . |
| 28 | I 'd heard tales about some people having seen an old man down there but not for a long while , he would n't hurt anyone so your lad need n't be scared of him . ’ |
| 29 | He shrugged his shoulders , ‘ At times I like to speak English , but not for a long time . |
| 30 | ‘ Before , but not for a long time now , ’ Maggie admitted reluctantly and Rose did not want to learn any more . |