Example sentences of "[adv] but [not/n't] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Major keeps his elbows on the table , and claps his fingers together but not the base of his hands , which makes him look rather like a seal . |
| 2 | Armstrong replied , in a later number of the same journal , that it is simply an empirical fact about our proprioceptive powers that we are able to perceive the heat of our hand directly but not the roughness of its surface . |
| 3 | The invention of pumps to draw the water up helped a little but not a lot . |
| 4 | See if I can find you a picture of a of a , I 've got a picture of a Roman legionnaire here but not the standard bearer . |
| 5 | Water , water everywhere but not a drop to drink — because it 's all gone down the sink ! |
| 6 | A Land Rover mechanic replaced the stabiliser unit behind the dash — the fuel gauge worked again but not the temperature gauge . |