Example sentences of "but [not/n't] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the children were provided with information about temporal priority but not about generative transmission . |
| 2 | The question of whether the offence under section 51 should be triable summarily only is controversial , for reasons examined by the C.L.K.C. Since magistrates often imprison persons convicted of assaulting policemen , but not of simple assault , the propriety of excluding jury trial seems questionable . |
| 3 | The removal of Alberto Martín Artajo from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs , and his replacement by Fernando María Castiella , represented a change of incumbent , but not of political approach nor ideological commitment . |
| 4 | This has been undesirable , but not of critical importance because our income from invisible exports has made good the difference . |
| 5 | This effect can vitiate scientific observation , as when seventeenth century experimenters , familiar with the concepts of post-Galilean mechanics but not of electrostatic attraction and repulsion , regularly reported observing chaff falling as though by gravitation , or mechanically rebounding from the electrified bodies which attracted them . |
| 6 | These proposals are helpful , but not of profound significance . |
| 7 | The sequel , in which the young bloods of Derby and Oaks night received their rebuff , was that they were distracted from their other responsibilities by a four-day jury hearing which found them guilty of riotous proceedings , but not of riotous intent . |
| 8 | Then in paragraph three forty he goes on to s to point out that the law er er which was then recently established was that auditors due owe a duty of care to their client company and the whole body of share holders but not to individual share holders and not to non share holding depositors . |
| 9 | No principle is discernible , nor has any been suggested , to explain or justify the giving of corporate status to some but not to other government authorities . |
| 10 | The technical way in which judicial decisions were made in the colonial courts was alien to indigenous tribunals but not to Sinhalese culture in general . |
| 11 | ‘ Office is an avenue to material well-being ; but not to great wealth ’ ( Miliband 1977 , p. 112 ; see Deutscher 1969 ) . |
| 12 | The same economic and social conditions in the plains area might have led only to loss of soil fertility but not to wholesale soil erosion and environmental collapse . |
| 13 | As my colleague Charles Spencer describes on our arts pages , Frances de la Tour and Berwick Kaler spent an acrobatic night undermining Catholicism , but not to universal delight . |
| 14 | Basal UOS pressure is very labile , responding to the child 's level of arousal and to oesophageal distention , but not to oesophageal acidification . |
| 15 | They may well provide insight and help for other behavioural disorders but not for addictive disease as such . |
| 16 | These results are typical of the others : the speculative efficiency hypothesis is rejected for some but not for other exchange rates . |
| 17 | Oases are misleadingly named ; they are simply polar desert areas , notable for their absence of ice but not for floristic abundance . |
| 18 | Debenham & Freebody 's of Wigmore Street did so in 1920 , but not for tardy payment of a long outstanding account but for an order which the customer denied had ever been given . |
| 19 | This is ideal for thick yarns and pile knitting , but not for ordinary work . |
| 20 | There was some support for specialist but not for general practice franchising . |
| 21 | Each of the ways of expressing the no-arbitrage condition considered in Chapter 4 allows for compound growth , but not for continuous compounding . |
| 22 | Popular misconceptions often stem from assuming that the national debt is analogous with private debt , which is true for external government debt but not for internal debt : |
| 23 | EC regulations require water authorities to test sea water for bacteria , but not for viral content . |
| 24 | Composers Pen is ideally suited to the serious musician who is arranging or composing for a choir , brass-band or orchestra but not for commercial publication . |
| 25 | Antiochus was used by Thucydides for Sicilian antiquities at the beginning of hi ; book vi , but not for fifth-century history , though he went down to 424 . |
| 26 | Reports were now reaching the SD that people — especially those attached to the Churches — were expressing the hope that the Wehrmacht would take over running the State , and that there would be a final victory for Germany but not for National Socialism . |
| 27 | So if you are dismissed before the agreed age , you might have a claim for breach of contract , but not for unfair dismissal if you are over the normal retiring age for colleagues in your class of work . |
| 28 | The House of Commons , understandably — again , with some justification but not with total justification — will assume that for the other member states the double hesitation by the United Kingdom was the crucial aspect of the agreements at Maastricht , but it was not . |
| 29 | 2 The attacker strikes from close range , but not with full power . |
| 30 | This paper is concerned with culture and with evolution , but not with cultural evolution . |