Example sentences of "but not the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doug said : ‘ We had the equipment but not the furniture in which to store it . |
| 2 | Some manuscripts of Scale 1 contain neither the passage on the Holy Name nor the insertions ; some have the Holy Name passage but not the shorter additions ; some have both ; still others have the insertions but not the passage on the Holy Name . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But not the vision as a private mental image . |
| 5 | The wind only blew out the candles but not the enthusiasm in our hearts as we prayed and sang in honour of Our Lady . |
| 6 | The fines are up to £1,000 and the provision arises as a result of the introduction of police cameras on roads which provide evidence of offences such as speeding or jumping traffic lights where the police are in possession of the vehicle number but not the name of the driver . |
| 7 | Wordsworth , Blake , Chaucer , George Eliot , she knew well , but not the name of the capital of Chad or the number of trade union-sponsored MPs in the House of Commons . |
| 8 | What 's the name of the singer with the same name but not the name of that singer ? |
| 9 | Edit the RDBI configuration file and ensure that all relational database users specified at the MAP USERNAME keyword are valid i.e. if DEC Rdb/VMS is the target database then all users are existing VMS users , or if ORACLE is the target database than all users are valid ORACLE users ( but not the name of the transfer account ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Thus the nationalized industries include British Rail and British Coal , but not the provision of defence or the provision of social services such as education or housing , which are not sold commercially . |
| 12 | You opened the door into the corridor but not the window into the sun and that way you got — but perhaps this was fancy — a draught of air . |
| 13 | Insofar as the old remains , it is like an empty chrysalis , preserving the shape but not the substance of what existed before . |
| 14 | She had caught the atmosphere of tension but not the substance of the conversation . |
| 15 | The value but not the content of the offence is returned . |
| 16 | If I misrepresent the subject of war ( but not the concern with love and loss ) in Housman 's poetry I can even fuel my own paranoia about the condition of our planet . |
| 17 | The date of the Greek translation is , strictly speaking , unknown , though a terminus ante quem is provided by Flavius Josephus who used it extensively — with the possible exception of the last three chapters ( a point that concerns Josephus , but not the integrity of I Maccabees ) . |
| 18 | The drawings ( c. 1918 ) , showing gunners loading shells and tunnel patriots , are succinct , almost balletic , with the fellow-feeling but not the horror of the poems , though a fine , nervously sketchy drawing , Figures Helping a Wounded Soldier ( c. 1916–17 ) , evokes war 's ineffable pity . |
| 19 | The drawings ( c. 1918 ) , showing gunners loading shells and tunnel patriots , are succinct , almost balletic , with the fellow-feeling but not the horror of the poems , though a fine , nervously sketchy drawing , Figures Helping a Wounded Soldier ( c. 1916–17 ) , evokes war 's ineffable pity . |
| 20 | Record company talent scouts in Dublin had already expressed an interest in her , but not the rest of the band . |
| 21 | She thought , I 'll have him to do the building but not the rest of it . |
| 22 | But not the depth of love he , Harry , could give her , he told himself , as he turned back towards Charles Street in the hope of finding Alice there . |
| 23 | Thomas seems however to contradict himself in this matter , presupposing elsewhere that orders relate to the body , as when he writes : ‘ Since in matters pertaining to the soul woman does not differ from man as to the thing , … it follows that she can receive the gift of prophecy and the like , but not the sacrament of Orders . ’ |
| 24 | In other words , at the factor prices ruling , the demand for factors is such that the constraint on capital is binding but not the constraint on labour ( we do not go into the dynamic adjustment process by which this rationed equilibrium has been reached ) . |
| 25 | ‘ Seeing only the whirlpools and counter-currents but not the progress of the long river of history only reveals the observer 's political short-sightedness . ’ |
| 26 | The vote for the extreme right is depressing , but not the beginning of a trend , let alone das End . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | We would pay for accommodation , e.g. in a guest house or hotel but not the cost of meals as the Policyholder would be saving on the cost of food , cooking , etc . |
| 29 | Finally I was given the number , but not the code for Guildford , connection being broken before I could ask for it . |
| 30 | 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 . |