Example sentences of "[adj] but [not/n't] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During a five-day fast , Joanna showed a ‘ very marked improvement in her condition ’ and when subsequently challenged with individual foods , she responded sharply to some but not others . |
| 2 | One cluster of characteristics ( personality type , language context , target language , interaction with the mother tongue , etc. ) may suit some but not others . |
| 3 | Landmark stability is a prerequisite for spatial but not discrimination learning |
| 4 | Yet Gemma had shown no more than a polite interest in Almsmead while Linnet , who was very dear but not Gemma , after all , had positively thrown herself into all the excitements of housebuilding and furnishing , taking to Far Flatley as if she had been born there . |
| 5 | The national insurance scheme , on the other hand , was contributory but not means tested . |
| 6 | And when relativity came , Newton 's equations were found wanting but not Maxwell 's ; they needed no relativistic correction . |
| 7 | Let me give a few examples : I can will knowledge but not wisdom ; going to bed but not sleeping ; eating but not hunger … self-assertion but not courage … reading but not understanding … |
| 8 | This raises the possibility that a mechanism other than substrate diversion is involved or that the various eicosanoids arise from different cellular sources and substrate diversion only occurred in a cell capable of synthesising LTB 4 but not LTC 4 . |
| 9 | A MINUS B will be the set of tuples ( figure 4.3(d) ) who attend module 3 but not module 2a . |
| 10 | She says my first reaction is one of horror , then sympathy for the individual concerned but not surprise . |
| 11 | This is the foundationalism which accepts F 1 but not F 2 . |
| 12 | In terms of reaction time , the right hemisphere emerged as sensitive to manipulations in age-of-acquisition but not imagery . |
| 13 | His life so far had been crowded with people , familiar but not friends , guardians like Fiery or the nurserymaids , boys at school or companions chosen for him . |
| 14 | This reaction is stereospecifically inhibited by N G -monomethy-L-arginine but not N G -monomethy-D-arginine . |
| 15 | After the war a series of anti-colonial , anti-settler , Kikuyu language newspapers existed that went mainly unchecked because the British colonial administrators knew Swahili but not Kikuyu . |
| 16 | That applies to most but not Faldo . |
| 17 | Earnings and dividends per share have been restated to reflect the bonus element in the 1989 rights issue and the capitalisation issue in 1990 but not shares issued in connection with the acquisition of Ultramar . |