Example sentences of "but [not/n't] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Directors have a duty to take into account the interests of the employees of the company but not of other companies in the same group ( s309 Companies Act 1985 ) . |
| 2 | More sober , technical economic analysis has provided much understanding of what we have termed proximate causes of economic performance but not of fundamental causes . |
| 3 | The PGE 2 antibody ( Sigma ) has a cross reactivity of 51% to PGE 1 but not to other eicosanoids . |
| 4 | As I emphasized at the beginning , the issue is not just one of zoological taxonomy , it is a problem of ethics , and unless you are prepared to argue that Koko the gorilla might become a Christian , ethics concern rules which apply to human beings but not to non-human beings . |
| 5 | Civil legal aid is available for all proceedings under the Children Act 1989 but not to local authorities , the NSPCC , guardians ad litem or anyone acting in a representative , fiduciary or official capacity . |
| 6 | Zaidie 's deposition referred to conversations ( a ) and ( d ) but not to any threats . |
| 7 | The B antibodies 16818–2 and BRIC 86 were inhibited by oligosaccharides involving a fucose attached to Β galactose , but not to linear disaccharides or to trisaccharides without the attached fucose . |
| 8 | The US International Trade Commission has upheld the ridiculous decision that Japanese manufacturers are dumping active matrix liquid crystal displays on the US market to the detriment of a handful of tiny US manufacturers that could never meet the demand from the likes of Apple Computer Inc and IBM Corp , but that alleged dumping of electroluminescent displays has not hurt the US electronics industry ; the active matrix displays carry prohibitive 62.7% tariffs , which apply to imported screens but not to assembled machines that include them , while the electroluminescent displays carried only a 7% tariff . |
| 9 | Exercise 6 suggests a method for dealing with the case where the LP is unbounded or infeasible at θ = 0 , but not for all values of 0 . |
| 10 | C3 , C4 and C5 — For the complete areas of study but not for individual elements |
| 11 | people who discussed politics more during the campaign gave personal conversations a somewhat higher rating for providing information on the issues , but not for other purposes . |
| 12 | The student loans is going to replace entitlements to housing benefit and social security for er students but not for disabled students . |
| 13 | A novelist like Fielding , who is on familiar terms with the other nation ( he married his deceased wife 's maid and friend , Mary Daniel ) , may sometimes take his gentlemen into such rooms , but not for moral reasons : Molly Seagrim 's narrow garret , shaped like the great delta of the Greeks , is a setting for sexual comedy , not social concern . |
| 14 | I discovered it was to become a community centre — but not for eighteen months . |
| 15 | These would eventually identify the abandoned Volvo , but not for two weeks . |
| 16 | Table 11 reaffirms that there is significantly greater RFA in men than in women for verbal tasks , but not for spatial ones . |
| 17 | It is suitable for the SRP60N ribber and the earlier SRP50 , but not for earlier models . |
| 18 | Security was to be bought — at least sometimes — but not for free men and women but , as the English terminology put it clearly , for ‘ servants ’ — whose liberty was strictly constrained : domestic servants , ‘ railway servants ’ , even ‘ civil servants ’ ( or public officials ) . |
| 19 | The number of births to married women each year according to their parity is known , but not for unmarried women . |
| 20 | All the research programmes have come from approaches made to the Unit and have involved extensive discussions , sometimes over a long period , but not for bureaucratic reasons . |
| 21 | This was a style suitable for churches and perhaps for domestic buildings , but not for public offices . |
| 22 | At present , PRP profits can be adjusted for extraordinary items , but not for exceptional items . |
| 23 | It 's OK to grieve or to feel sad , but not for 24 hours a day , which is what I was doing . |
| 24 | With × 20 , but not with lower magnifications , I can see individual stars in it . |
| 25 | The next category is the electromagnetic force , which interacts with electrically charged particles like electrons and quarks , but not with uncharged particles such as gravitons . |
| 26 | Suppose further that each neurone forms synapses ( conducting junctions ) with its neighbours , but not with distant neurones . |
| 27 | To take a particular instance , we have seen that the form of question with how ? is associated with predicate qualifiers but not with clausal adjectives , and also that the verb believe will only be compatible with the clausal adjective ; it follows that the second part of the exchange in ( 70 ) should be odd or ungrammatical , which is indeed so : ( 70 ) LECTURER : The Venetians believed their proposals generous … ( interrupted by sound of electric drill next door ) MEMBER OF AUDIENCE : * How did the Venetians believe the proposals ? |
| 28 | HC says it will continue to service their single copy business , but not on wholesale terms . |
| 29 | Example 2:9 Right of way : limited times The right in common with the landlord and all others having the like right at all times between 8.30 am and 6.30 pm on weekdays and between 8.30 am and 1.30 pm on Saturdays ( but not on public holidays ) to pass and repass on foot only through the main entrance to the building of which the demised property forms part and over the stairs and corridors leading therefrom to the demised property ( c ) Lifts A right to use a lift may be implied in the case of a letting on , say , the tenth floor of a block ( Liverpool City Council v Irwin [ 1977 ] AC 239 ) or where it would be inconvenient and uneconomic for the tenant to use the stairs ( Dikstein v Kanevsky [ 1947 ] VLR 216 ) . |
| 30 | Graphite conducts electricity in the plane of the layers but not at right angles to them . |