Example sentences of "but it [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such confusion is largely a result of the difficulty many lawyers have when dealing with a highly technical field such as computer science but it does not stop there . |
| 2 | But it does not feel to them like real work and there is no financial reward and rarely any specific long-term achievable objectives which can be shared with others . |
| 3 | The use of a mode register reduces the number of operation codes required , but it does not eliminate the problem of an instruction being given operands of one format when it expects another format . |
| 4 | ‘ Ah , but it does not wind . |
| 5 | Education can equip people to fill these positions , but it does not control the expansion or contraction of the job market . |
| 6 | This may be temporarily quashing but it does not satisfy … |
| 7 | But it does not arrive in Salamanca until about one-thirty the next day . |
| 8 | This means that ideas can not be abstract , but it does not mean that they can not be general . |
| 9 | But it does not mean , ’ she said starchily , ‘ that one is totally without influence , or that propriety has been put in abeyance . |
| 10 | That is a pity , perhaps , but it does not mean that everyday language is bad ; it is imply the way of things that language is not alive unless it is vernacular , because the adornments and abbreviations are the adornments and abbreviations of human thought . |
| 11 | This criterion means that a great deal of fundamental science such as elementary particle physics or astronomy would not qualify for our support ; but it does not mean that we avoid contact with scientists working in these fields . |
| 12 | Man may be distinguished from the animal by his capacity for non-violence , but it does not mean that he has shed all vestiges of the animal in him . |
| 13 | The value of cash benefits to the poor should not be minimised or dismissed , but it does not mean that relative deprivation is removed . |
| 14 | But it does not mean that , with some ingenuity , you can not set a detective story , or almost any of its variants and successors , at some period in the past . |
| 15 | The word regular is very important here , but it does not mean without exception . |
| 16 | But it does not mean others can not come in . ’ |
| 17 | The whole series is a tribute to Shakespeare 's dramatic imagination , but it does not inspire affection . |
| 18 | The weather changes over the centuries , but it does not change in a specifically malevolent way . |
| 19 | This proposition may have a useful application in limiting some of the more pedantic rules of interpretation , but it does not exclude the application of a presumption or certain common-sense principles . |
| 20 | Pornographic eroticism , I will argue , is , therefore , to be condemned , but it does not function in quite the way some feminists have argued that it does . |
| 21 | But it does not suggest that any basic change in the traditional means of taking large numbers of soldiers to the continent was yet being considered . |
| 22 | For this simple reason : pornography shocks and disgusts decent people , but it does not tend to deprave and corrupt them . |
| 23 | The most common type of LPG gas is butane , but it does not vaporise — so therefore can not burn — at temperatures below about 4°C . |
| 24 | It can be snorted'' or injected but it does not vaporise easily and is not suitable for inhaling or smoking . |
| 25 | Naturalism as an aesthetic may work as a tool of catharsis — we may suffer with those we see suffering — but it does not illuminate methods for action after the catharsis . |
| 26 | Above all , research of the kind described above is informative and helpful in some ways as a tool for looking with some objectivity at children 's writing ; but it does not isolate areas of difficulty or suggest teaching strategies to promote more effective writing . |
| 27 | The theme of the fourth sentence , Some creators , relates to Rimbaud only indirectly on the basis that poets are some sort of creators , but it does not link in with the theme or rheme of the previous sentence . |
| 28 | That may be so , but it does not prevent people in our field from continually falling into the error of supposing that a solution designed to match one problem must be applicable to quite a different problem as well . |
| 29 | This makes it difficult to define the precise level of services available in individual cases , but it does not prevent an attempt at drawing some general conclusions about the economic role of small towns . |
| 30 | ‘ I make no comment on the account of her son , but it does seem that he concealed the fact that his mother was laying for days but it does not affect the cause of death . |