Example sentences of "but not [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pony/horse could have a stable and rugs , these items are a necessity for the highly bred horse but not essential for the hardy ponies . |
| 2 | He himself was greatly excited , but not nervous in the least . |
| 3 | On the facts of Martin , above , the accused would be guilty of the more serious offence , s.18 , but not guilty of the less serious offence , s.20 . |
| 4 | Their hydrostatic mechanisms proved a serviceable and effective basis for building a variety of bodies , but not susceptible in the end to spectacular development . |
| 5 | Over the Westland affair , she said : ‘ I was sad for him because he minded a lot , but not sad for the rest of us . ’ |
| 6 | His reign was crucial , but not decisive in the development of Frankish power . |
| 7 | Ingrid was in fact twenty-nine , which was young compared with Gesner , but not young for a dancer and she found the routines rather a strain , especially when she had to sing at the end of them . |
| 8 | In this cognitive behaviour , what is already apprehended is used as a taking-off point for some idea which is rooted but not present in the evidence being examined . |
| 9 | Pinnacle UK — partner , but not subsidiary of the US concern — says it has already sold about a hundred boards fitted with Cypress ' standard 40MHz Sparc RISC set . |
| 10 | I am a winner — but not irrespective of the means . |
| 11 | Without the light of the Gospel , it would never be seen in its true depths , but would remain a coloured stone , beautiful , but not bright with a message of God shining within it . |
| 12 | Finance from the EMCF for intra-marginal intervention in foreign exchange markets ( i.e. interventions within the permitted margins of fluctuation , but not obligatory on a member country ) was made easier . |
| 13 | Cardinal Hume , in a statement issued immediately after the vote was announced , said : ‘ I am disappointed but not surprised by the vote today in the General Synod . |
| 14 | Perhaps the highlight of 1924 , but not obvious at the time , was the appointment of 31-year-old C.W. ( Bill ) Pedler of Gerrards Cross as the Club Professional . |
| 15 | Her interests in the paranormal were unorthodox for a Communist but not unusual among the post-religious élite in Brezhnev-s Europe . |
| 16 | This is conceptually similar but not identical to the phenomena described by Matza ( 1964 : 33–68 ) as the subculture of delinquency : both consist of ‘ precepts and customs that are delicately balanced between convention and crime ’ ; both ‘ posit objectives that may be attained through ( crime ) but also other means ’ ; both ‘ allow ( crime ) but it is not demanded or necessarily considered the preferred path ’ ; and both consist of ‘ norms and sentiments ’ which are ‘ beliefs that function as the extenuating conditions under which ( crime ) is permissible ’ . |
| 17 | Once a conditioned response develops , stimuli that are similar but not identical to the conditioned stimulus are found to elicit a similar response . |
| 18 | This suggests that the region delineated by Ea DH groups I-II is necessary but not sufficient as an LCR , which requires the presence of the upstream regions containing DH III-V for complete position-independent , copy number-dependent expression . |
| 19 | It is suggested that the civil , political and social elements of Marshall 's version of the citizenship of entitlement are essential but not sufficient for a modern concept . |
| 20 | Completely inaccurate , of course , but not bad for a seven-year-old . |
| 21 | This wine was light and fresh with quite a sharp dry taste , but not bad for the price . |
| 22 | There was a lake there but not big like the one you knew , Kraal . |
| 23 | Thought forms , at first perhaps pictorial and in modern man very largely linguistic , set up a re-presentational environment possessing a dynamic stability that is distinct but not separable from the biological organization that maintains it . |