Example sentences of "but not [prep] [art] [noun sg] " 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 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 ) .
7 It varies of course as a function of time but not as a function of the spatial coordinates .
8 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 .
9 Such is contrary to the wishes of the CLRC ( p.28 ) : " A bogus beggar is regarded as a rogue but not as a thief
10 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 .
11 We may also gain — but not as a right — valued sons and daughters-in-law and grandchildren to love and enjoy .
12 He approved of Clarkson 's travels to secure witnesses for the Privy Council hearings but not as a focus for popular agitation .
13 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 .
14 But not as a matter of influence as such .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 But not as a group .
19 ‘ Miss Hatherby certainly influenced me , but not as a mother would .
20 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 .
21 [ 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 ) . ]
22 But not as an estate agent ? ’
23 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 ) .
24 This is correct as a statement of fact , but not as an analysis of the logic behind their success .
25 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 .
26 I 'm disappointed about that but not about the standard , it was a great game .
27 Avril was worried — but not about the operation .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 Recession bites hard — but NOT into the dog 's dinner
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