Example sentences of "[pron] but [not/n't] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Property rights , in this case whether you are legally entitled to compensation for loss of light to your garden , determine who compensates whom but not the outcome S * of the bargain . |
| 2 | The rain was making a curtain all round them but not a drop came through the yew . |
| 3 | ‘ The Shah accepted them but not the Ayatollah ; persecuted to annihilation . ’ |
| 4 | So , if you like the shape of something but not the size and colour , do not give up on it . |
| 5 | Wolman ( 1986 ) argues that what informed Reagan 's urban policy was the misplaced notion of a national and urban dichotomy , economies engaged in a zero-sum game ; the federal government could assist the one but not the other , since the costs of doing so would detract from national economic recovery . |
| 6 | You can live without the one but not the other . |
| 7 | Hence to ban one but not the other may not be as ridiculous as a simple interpretation of their model would suggest . |
| 8 | The degree of control of human populations required by the design , especially in the random allocation of subjects to experimental and to control groups , and subjecting one but not the other to the causal treatment in the field , is practically impossible . |
| 9 | Mum looked pleadingly at him but not a word was said between any of us until he was opening the door to leave and Dad said , ‘ Bloody good riddance , an' do n't bang the door when you go , I 've only just mended it . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ It was in me to beat him but not the way they wanted me to fight . ’ |
| 11 | It is often described as ‘ whickering ’ , a pretty good term once you 've heard it but not a lot of good if you have n't . |
| 12 | Conversely , if people take account of the costs to themselves but not the burden on the National Health Service in deciding whether or not to smoke and damage their health , society may regard smoking as a merit bad that should be discouraged . |