Example sentences of "[adj] but not [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Quantum mechanics may be peculiar but not to the extent of allowing one to obtain the square root of minus one as the result of an experiment ! |
2 | The Jokers said much about Sixties London , still swinging but not at the pace depicted by the media . |
3 | To ask a child to get dressed is a reasonable requirement of a seven-year-old but not of a two-year-old . |
4 | However , a number of United States courts have considered cases in which service has been effected by registered mail upon defendants in Japan , a state which has objected to the other modes of service listed in Article 10 but not to the use of the postal channel . |
5 | Her clothes are extravagant but not beyond the means of , say , Russian stars of stage and screen . |
6 | Danzig was a party to the Treaty of Paris of 1920 but not to the Treaty of Versailles , which was held to be the source of the rights conferred upon Poland and the organic limitations on Danzig . |
7 | A superiority of the right ear was obtained in the structured but not in the unstructured condition . |
8 | The concentrations of freon eleven and freon twelve dissolved in surface waters have both increased dramatically since nineteen fifty but not by the same amount and so measuring their ratio in a sea water sample will tell us how old the water is . |
9 | I 'm disappointed about that but not about the standard , it was a great game . |
10 | In many countries stabilization may be possible but not to the relatively warm 20°C . |
11 | May be fussy and irritable but not like the tantrums of Chamomilla or the touchiness of Hepar . |
12 | The gully is steep and rough but not beyond the ability of an average walker , and leads unerringly to the depression on the ridge , whence a simple climb up to the right leads to the summit cairn of Caisteal Liath . |
13 | If the memory of the association of a given flavour with illness can be taken to be more important than the memory that the flavour has also been experienced without harmful consequences , then the latter memory would interfere after a short but not after a long retention interval . |
14 | The figures demonstrate something about the characteristics of people with dementia referred to psychogeriatricians : that they are on average around 80 years of age , mainly women , mainly widowed or single , quite likely to be living alone but not without the involvement of relatives or friends , and with fairly advanced dementia ( assuming that this is the implication of a score of nearly seven on a scale , running from one to ten , designed mainly to measure impairment of memory ) . |
15 | The authorities subsequently declared , however , that there had been a single assassin , who had been captured on June 29 but not at the scene of the crime . |
16 | Yet the links between the provincial and the national press meant that it would be complicated , if not illogical , to allow investment by the former but not by the latter . |
17 | In other words , if the legal discourse had exactly paralleled the everyday discourse it would not have been possible to achieve a solution in one but not in the other . |
18 | Individuals may perform either role by itself ; or they might be active in both roles , and successfully at that ; or they may be strong in one but not in the other . |
19 | This was specific because it was competitively inhibited by peptide 15 but not by an unrelated peptide , peptide 1 ( compare tracks 6 and 5 ) . |
20 | ‘ I 'm disappointed but not with the performance . |
21 | Yes I 'd like to see it for a day or two but not for a fortnight |
22 | CREDIT CARD BOOKINGS : Tickets can be booked using ACCESS , AMEX , DINERS or VISA credit cards , using the Postal Ticket Booking Form or by telephone or 031–225 3661 BUT NOT ON THE DAY OF PERFORMANCE . |
23 | That might well have been true in the early 1960s but not in the 1990s , so let us not revive a distinction which has thankfully been eliminated . |
24 | That might well have been true in the early 1960s but not in the 1990s , so let us not revive a distinction which has thankfully been eliminated All kinds of research in education have gone far beyond this narrow form . |
25 | They may each act alone and without the agreement of the other but not in a way which is incompatible with the order ( s2(7) ( 8 ) ) . |
26 | Office parties or casual occasions call for an outfit that 's special but not over the top ; smart , but not dull . |