Example sentences of "but not [prep] the [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | I 'm disappointed about that but not about the standard , it was a great game . |
| 5 | Avril was worried — but not about the operation . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Recession bites hard — but NOT into the dog 's dinner |
| 9 | Er well I keep friendly with the people that I work beside but not outside the work . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This may include meals but not of the kind or quality you may prefer . |
| 14 | Resignations , both of ministers and of admirals but not of the Chancellor , were threatened . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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. ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's dolphin , but not of the flipper variety , ’ Christina replied . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Van Kol 's resolution won a majority of the committee , but not of the Congress . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | That Immigration Officers should be National Front members may seem utterly wrong to some people but not to the Home Office . |
| 24 | The tank was gently filled , but not to the top — there would be a danger of slopping water over the floor when adding the bogwood and plants . |
| 25 | The union request for recognition was referred to ACAS which sent questionnaires to union members at Grunwick 's but not to the rest of the workers because the employers would not supply ACAS with their names and addresses . |
| 26 | Leaf rigidity or curvature ; this is related to the leaf 's anatomical structure , but not to the percentage of structural tissue in it ; |
| 27 | The contents of your AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files can influence PC performance but not to the degree you complain of . |
| 28 | Hairy caterpillars , such as this ‘ woolly bear ’ or garden tiger moth caterpillar , are usually distasteful to birds , but not to the cuckoo . |
| 29 | The speakers also generate distortion which adds to the harmonic content , or crunch , but not to the clarity of individual notes . |
| 30 | You can be the first men to go there — but not to the South Pole ! |