Example sentences of "but [not/n't] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NatWest put in £250,000 but not through the Money Advice Trust . ’ |
| 2 | Two senses of door may be observed in 48 , which can be truthfully answered either ‘ Yes ’ or ‘ No ’ in the following situation : the door in question has a ‘ cat-flap ’ , and is standing open ; the cat goes through the cat-flap , but not through the doorway : |
| 3 | The coolness between the two men , but not between the sisters , continued until one day when Edward was obliged to seek medical advice . |
| 4 | The holder is entitled to sell or supply alcoholic liquor for consumption on the premises but not off the premises , when food and non-alcoholic beverages are also on sale . |
| 5 | At best they can tell us about aspects of the general biochemical and hormonal ‘ state ’ of the brain necessary for learning and memory formation to occur , the tuning and volume mechanisms , but not about the memory processes , the message on the tape itself . |
| 6 | I 'm disappointed about that but not about the standard , it was a great game . |
| 7 | Avril was worried — but not about the operation . |
| 8 | They would talk about the weather , about what went on by the sea-coast , about Easterling pirates , about news from Lincoln , or Peterborough , or York , or Chester , but not about the forest . |
| 9 | There is a lot left to do so can we please er try and stick to the point I have to chair right to respond should he so chose , but not about the cars in Stretton Avenue . |
| 10 | ‘ But not about the caves , ’ she laughed and , tugging at his arm , she insisted they tag on with the other tourists . |
| 11 | By mixing with remarkable artists in a number of Russian towns , I have come to know how willing they are to hand their works over to the museum free of charge , but not into the custody of the Ministry of Culture . |
| 12 | Recession bites hard — but NOT into the dog 's dinner |
| 13 | Er well I keep friendly with the people that I work beside but not outside the work . |
| 14 | Special Service may be defined as an action ranging between but not including the work of the single agent on the one hand , and on the other , the full-scale combined operation . |
| 15 | The services affected , described in Sch 3 , VATA 1983 are : transfers and assignments of copyright , patents , licences , trademarks and similar rights ; advertising services ; services of consultants , engineers , consulting bureaux , lawyers , accountants and other similar services ; data processing and provision of information ( but excluding from this head any services relating to land ) ; acceptance of any obligation to refrain from pursuing or exercising , in whole or part , any business activity ; banking , financial and insurance services ( including reinsurance , but not including the provision of safe deposit facilities ) ; the supply of staff ; the letting on hire of goods other than means of transport ; and the services rendered by one person to another in procuring for the other any of the above services . |
| 16 | For a time teachers of literature could assume that they were in but not of the academy , and keep a healthy distance from institutional pressures . |
| 17 | This may include meals but not of the kind or quality you may prefer . |
| 18 | Resignations , both of ministers and of admirals but not of the Chancellor , were threatened . |
| 19 | This will bring Koi to the surface , enabling you to give them a visual health check ( but not of the underside where ulcers may occur ) . |
| 20 | Thus , a mercantile agent in possession of the registration book but not of the vehicle itself can not confer good title under section 2 of the Factors Act , Beverley Acceptances v. Oakely ( 1982 C.A. ) . |
| 21 | It is a system where a reasonably educated person would have heard of Homer but never of Kalidas , of Ibsen but rarely of Tagore , of Joan of Arc but not of the Rani of Jhansi ( another woman who took arms to try to drive the British out of her country ) , of Goethe but not of his contemporary the great Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib . |
| 22 | There are no weekends , every day is a potential workday … rains may interrupt the activities of the men … but not of the women . |
| 23 | In this sense this imposed consciousness is a false consciousness for those who are dominated , since it serves the purposes of the superiors but not of the inferiors . |
| 24 | Observer status was granted to Denmark and Ireland , both also EC members but unwilling to contemplate full membership , and associate membership was granted to Iceland , Norway and Turkey , which were members of NATO but not of the EC . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's dolphin , but not of the flipper variety , ’ Christina replied . |
| 26 | It was argued that the logical situation permits the establishment of the falsity but not of the truth of theories in the light of available observation statements . |
| 27 | Some of those who had supported the 1936 rising had done so in the belief that the objective was the overthrow of the Popular Front , but not of the Republic itself . |
| 28 | Van Kol 's resolution won a majority of the committee , but not of the Congress . |
| 29 | There was n't much ; a few drawings of birds , quite well done but not of the calibre of the great da Vinci 's notebook . |
| 30 | That Immigration Officers should be National Front members may seem utterly wrong to some people but not to the Home Office . |