Example sentences of "but [not/n't] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But not between the last two words : |
| 2 | ‘ . Primitive and child are again linked , but not as the second childhood of ‘ The Hollow Men ’ . |
| 3 | About this 40,000 , maybe ; but not about the next 40,000 who would fill the camps as soon as they were cleared . |
| 4 | About this 40,000 , maybe ; but not about the next 40,000 who would fill the camps as soon as they were cleared . |
| 5 | He was expected to sell out , but not to the last shilling . |
| 6 | Another splendidly flighted pass found McClair in the danger zone , but not for the first time the Scot 's control was wayward . |
| 7 | But not at the first interview . |
| 8 | for most of it , but not during the last few days |
| 9 | But not by the third time . |
| 10 | During the next ten days negotiations and discussions went on , in some of which I was the messenger for Sir Hubert , particularly in the efforts to get U Saw and U Ba Maw into the Council , successful in the first case but not in the second . |
| 11 | The community charge is a poll tax in the first sense but not in the second . |
| 12 | Thus , in the first case but not in the second , the adjective is non-restrictive . |
| 13 | Lord Salmon said he could find no sensible basis for the " astonishing " proposition that the valuer should be liable for negligence in the first instance , but not in the second . |
| 14 | The reasons for the declines of mortality and fertility are still not agreed ; nor the relative impact on mortality decline of the conquest of smallpox , the agricultural revolution , or environmental improvement ( Woods and Hinde 1987 ) ; why infant mortality fell in the eighteenth century but not in the nineteenth ; economic versus cultural explanations for the decline in fertility . |