Example sentences of "but not [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One is in the Delta ; the other is in Heliopolis , now a suburb of Cairo , but not even a cynic could believe the world began in the suburbs . |
| 2 | But not even a whisper came from the room . |
| 3 | Lineker spared their blushes this time , but not even the striker acclaimed by Francis as Europe 's best ( Gullit may sue ) can oblige every week if the requirement is two goals for a draw , three for a win . |
| 4 | But not even the contagion of disgrace had touched him through his king 's disastrous venture ; for he was in the north , far away from this débâcle . |
| 5 | But not even the prospect of experimenting with cooking samphire raised a sense of oppression that evening ; such conversations as were half-heartedly begun petered out . |
| 6 | But not even the acknowledgement of that could make the pain of losing him go away . |
| 7 | THE unfamiliar sound of a Scottish Dance Band was heard echoing throughout Drummond House , Edinburgh but not even the security guards looked surprised . |
| 8 | But not even the news that the most promising horse in the yard had been sold to Ibn Fayoud , nor the rumour that the rest of the young Arab 's horses would also be coming to the yard , could distract Kelly from thoughts of her father 's letter . |
| 9 | But not even the Shah really understood the extent of his illness . |
| 10 | The record is ten days , but not even the trimarans expect to match that this year . |
| 11 | The veins are often auriferous where they cut graphitic shales but not where the host rocks consist of non-graphitic arenites . |
| 12 | As The science of every subject is derived from a precognition of the causes , generation , and construction of the same ; and consequently where the causes are known , there is place for demonstration , but not where the causes are to seek for . |
| 13 | ( d ) a number of respondents supported the idea of prohibiting solicitors from acting where they had a personal interest in a transaction , but not where the interest was that of a family member or employee . |
| 14 | But not just a child . |
| 15 | These particular residents , the ones that live in the service road , are campaigning for the service road to be closed but not surprisingly the residents who live are n't keen on that er road closure because that would affect their use that route at other times other than the morning peak . |
| 16 | This was largely but not exclusively an obsession of Congregationalists , much as it had been of mediaeval bishops . |
| 17 | The value of your investment will depend upon prevailing market conditions including but not exclusively the level of the FT-SE 100 Index at that time . |
| 18 | ‘ But not yet a woman , ’ he said softly . |
| 19 | First we had the ACC 's Stephen Campbell , in our 1 April issue , announce in his best Churchillian tones that is was : ‘ The end of the beginning , but not yet the beginning of the end . ’ |
| 20 | The Labour party has attracted largely but not wholly the support of the working class , and the Conservative party that of the middle class . |
| 21 | The infinitives of such verbs are found only where the person of their support is specified ( We want it to snow ) , but not when the support is left undefined , as in certain exclamations , and not in the function of subject ( * To snow is pleasant ) . |
| 22 | Problem : EDB works well at high temperature/high power , but not when the exhaust is relatively cool , at low power . |
| 23 | Most law-abiding citizens obeyed it but not so the denizens of the slums , stinking alleys and runnels of Edinburgh . |
| 24 | But not so the saw-fly larva and certain other specialist feeders , who possess the biochemistry to handle the toxic diet . |
| 25 | The trumpets and trombones are , as we have said , ruled out by the nature of the passage , but not so the horns . |
| 26 | I can not think what the Riding , but not only the Riding , will be without him . |
| 27 | A mushroom disguised as an onion bhaji with flaking batter was a mouthwatering morsel , but not really a dish in its own right , more an interlude before the chicken à la British Airways , both accompanied by more Hellmans relatives . |
| 28 | Although the debate over whether the pre- or the postsynaptic changes are the most important is still raging as I write , it is likely to turn out , as is sometimes but not always the case in science , that both camps are more or less right . |
| 29 | But they met anyway , in part because in their early childhood one or other of their parents , usually but not always the father , had taken them aside and told them a great responsibility would fall to them : the carrying forward of a hermetically protected family secret , and in part because the Society looked after its own . |
| 30 | Last but not least a shot of a baby . |