Example sentences of "[adj] but [not/n't] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a big stage event with a very abstract brief , very exciting but not a fancy dress show . ’ |
| 2 | the advances made have been very exciting but not every knitter wants to go too ‘ high tec ’ . |
| 3 | The centrodorsal plate is usually conspicuous but not the primary plates . |
| 4 | But they were not all the same groups within the different daily and Sunday categories each year : for instance , Beaverbrook was a top daily but not a top Sunday group in 1947 . |
| 5 | and Aaron get up , we 've , we 've only got a very small bedroom so we might as well make the most of it , we 've had quotes and all that and erm , look not the cheapest but not the exp the most expensive erm |
| 6 | Whichever party is in power makes some but not a great deal of difference . |
| 7 | New price lists tell and interesting but not a consistent story . |
| 8 | I mean but interesting but not the ideal answer . |
| 9 | Greens Kites of Burnley , Lancashire , produce their ‘ Stratoscoop ’ which is similar but not the same as the Parafoil . |
| 10 | Similar but not the same . |
| 11 | This study found evidence for the S&P500 and the NYSE Composite index futures that volume is ‘ caused ’ by volatility , that arbitrage opportunities are ‘ caused ’ by volatility , and that volatility is ‘ caused ’ by volume for the NYSE Composite but not the S&P500 . |
| 12 | I hope everything is running smoothly , including the car and the piano , and of course woozle-cat — tell her I have a pet cockroach in my bedroom which is quite large but not a good substitute . |
| 13 | The use of translation is the most obvious but not the only problem in the transmission of what are cultural as well as intellectual texts . |
| 14 | But yeah , it 's alright , it 's okay but not a lot 's going on , really , I have n't been in any activities for ages . |
| 15 | This , for example , is why he believed Hobbes ( and himself ) to be an authoritarian but not an absolutist . |
| 16 | I speak English , French and Spanish but not the others mentioned , so I have had to be very open to inferring sociolinguistic information and to being wary of my own assumptions . |
| 17 | The material means of music are rationally quantifiable but not the mysteries of their application . |
| 18 | Two pork pies and a can of Coke each but not the apples which were imported Granny Smiths and bruised , and anyway they had strawberries . |
| 19 | Blocking the activity of GABA eliminates the conditioned but not the unconditioned response . |
| 20 | The graft , like the long spade , has a slightly rounded cutting edge , which again needs to have a good but not a sharp edge to it . |
| 21 | Its personal computer network protocol support is good but not the equal of Unix at its best . |
| 22 | For instance , restriction of the opportunity for reproduction in Drosophila to 3–6-day-old flies for 120 generations resulted in a fall in the late but not the early-life fecundity of females in these ’ r' lines relative to that of females of ’ K' lines where adults of any age could breed . |
| 23 | In the current political climate , an official strike would count under Condition 17 but not an unofficial one . |
| 24 | MS 6686 which includes the passage on the Holy Name and that in chapter seventy but not the shorter additions . |
| 25 | It was a noisy but not a violent affair , the clashes between the Blackshirts and the Red Front outside being mainly verbal . |
| 26 | I 've made lots of forties and fifties but not the big hundreds that get you noticed , ’ strangely adding , ‘ I want to improve my fielding and establish myself in the one-day game . ’ |
| 27 | Divine worship is an important but not the only concern here . |
| 28 | The exhibition most deliberately linked to Columbus was that at the Musée Barbier-Mueller in Geneva , the catalogue for which is a magnificent book , written by eight authors , half of whose essays were translated into French ( Spanish and Catalan editions are available but not an English translation ) . |
| 29 | This is a major advance on the pre-existing system of judicial monitoring where the Government agreed only to the publication of the first but not the succeeding reports of the monitor . |
| 30 | An oval orbit would falsify the first but not the second , whereas any orbit that falsifies the second will also falsify the first . |