Example sentences of "but [not/n't] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is to a degree , on the application form that each charity receives , it has to state whether it collects for people in the Oxford area , but not as a percentage . |
| 2 | This important change marked the introduction of the purchaser/provider split in social services practice , with the care manager clearly identified as a purchaser but not as a provider of services . |
| 3 | A fixed charge may of course be attacked as a preference where it is given to secure past value but not as a transaction at an undervalue since the assets of the company are not diminished by the creation of the charge . |
| 4 | He praised the US Environmental Protection Agency — ‘ an independent body of scientists who undertake research and research evaluation as a service to government ( but not as a spokesman for government ) . |
| 5 | It varies of course as a function of time but not as a function of the spatial coordinates . |
| 6 | Obtaining by false pretences is ordinarily thought of as different from theft , because in the former the owner in fact consents to part with his ownership ; a bogus beggar is regarded as a rogue but not as a thief , and so are his less petty counterparts . |
| 7 | Such is contrary to the wishes of the CLRC ( p.28 ) : " A bogus beggar is regarded as a rogue but not as a thief … |
| 8 | Mark Rees ' comments in these directions seem particularly confused and confusing ; ’ I was attracted to women but not as a lesbian I felt totally wrong in that role . |
| 9 | We may also gain — but not as a right — valued sons and daughters-in-law and grandchildren to love and enjoy . |
| 10 | He approved of Clarkson 's travels to secure witnesses for the Privy Council hearings but not as a focus for popular agitation . |
| 11 | For example , we can specify the constraints on /a/ before velars in inner-city Belfast by stating that it can be realized as a mid-front , low mid-front , or low-front vowel , but not as a low-back vowel . |
| 12 | ‘ But not as a matter of influence as such . |
| 13 | Society reacted to it , the organs of law reacted to it and eventually but not as a result of direct cause and effect — it is something more subtle than that — it went out of fashion . |
| 14 | Another death , but not as a result of the War , was that of Alfred Caldecott , a founder bondholder of some significance , who in 1913 had become Town Clerk after J.F. Cooper and simultaneously also a Partner in Cooper Son & Caldecott . |
| 15 | Director of public relations , Linda Moore says : ‘ Rates are pegged at last year 's prices for most holidays , with special interests up slightly , but not as a result of the Directive . |
| 16 | But not as a group . |
| 17 | ‘ Miss Hatherby certainly influenced me , but not as a mother would . |
| 18 | Marchbank was , first and foremost , a designer , not a journalist ; Al Clark had some journalistic experience , but not as an editor ; nobody had any great confidence in the man Branson had appointed as publisher , Greg Thain . |
| 19 | [ This observation is in accord with the classic theological understanding of creation , which sees God as the ground and support of all that is ( in our terms , the guarantor of the Schrödinger equation ) but not as an object among objects ( no collapser of wavepackets ) . ] |
| 20 | ‘ But not as an estate agent ? ’ |
| 21 | The Foreign Minister was Nguyen Tuong Tam who had been in south China but not as an associate of Ho Chi Minh ( he fled from Hanoi in June 1946 ) . |
| 22 | This is correct as a statement of fact , but not as an analysis of the logic behind their success . |
| 23 | To ask a child to get dressed is a reasonable requirement of a seven-year-old but not of a two-year-old . |
| 24 | The number of matings strongly influences the reproductive success of a male , but not of a female . |
| 25 | Older people may take longer to retrain for new tasks than younger , but not to a degree that makes such retraining not worth while . |
| 26 | ‘ But not to a midget who 's just eaten my lunch and whom I 've subsequently insulted , who then turns out to be one of the world 's top dress designers . |
| 27 | I wanted to get rid of him , but not to a cop . |
| 28 | Section 61(1) of the Sale of Goods Act defines a warranty as ’ … an agreement with reference to goods which are the subject of a contract of sale , but collateral to the main purpose of such contract , the breach of which gives rise to a claim for damages , but not to a right to reject the goods and treat the contract as repudiated . ’ |
| 29 | Of the five potential transplant candidates who had not been referred and who had died , two suffered hepatocellular carcinoma ( diagnosed during routine monitoring in both instances , one with no further imaging , one with imaging showing tumour localised to the liver ) and three had cryptogenic cirrhosis ( one of these three patients was referred to a regional unit but not to a transplant unit ) . |
| 30 | Thus they considered it an affront to a man 's dignity — but not to a woman 's — to earn a wage only on a par with social security benefits . |