Example sentences of "but [not/n't] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I derive untold pleasure from looking at buildings , but not just as objects which please the eye , nor just as works of art , as you would look at pictures in a gallery ; I also like imagining who commissioned them , who built them , what sort of person first lingered on their balcony or opened their casement window . |
| 2 | His associate Auguste Laurent- and both of them were kept on the fringe of the French scientific establishment — was more hopeful : he believed that it was possible to determine formulae and structures , but not inductively as chemists had so far tried to do . |
| 3 | By an arrangement between father and son , a disentailment could be effected ; but not so as to alienate the fee ; rather to reduce the son 's interest to a life estate in remainder , with remainder to his issue successively in tail . |
| 4 | She 'd been feeling sick a morning or two , but not so as it interfered with her work , and no one remarked on it . |
| 5 | the Trader shall be entitled at any time prior to commencement of transit to give seven days ' written notice to the Carrier requiring that the aforementioned £800 per tonne limit be increased but not so as to exceed the value of the Consignment and in the event of such notice being given the Trader shall within the said seven days agree with the Carrier an increase in the carriage charges in consideration of the said increased limit . |
| 6 | The answer is in s35 of the Limitation Act 1980 under which the new claim dates back to when the original writ was issued but not so as to defeat a limitation defence although the court can exercise discretion under s33 or RSC Ord 15 , r6(6) which says that no one shall be added as a party after limitation unless the court directs that the period should not apply . |
| 7 | It is indeed strange that Anselm never referred the question to Ivo , bishop of Chartres : he knew him as a friend , but not apparently as the greatest authority on Canon Law in northern Europe . |
| 8 | This did happen but not quite as Seth intended as the casket was washed ashore near the city of Byblos on the Syrian coast , close to the base of a young tamarisk tree . |
| 9 | Mr Anthony Galsworthy , the leader of the British Joint Liaison Group ( JLG ) delegation , said that the four-day meeting ‘ certainly marks a return to business , but not necessarily as normal ’ . |
| 10 | This was essential to the development of many zones , but not necessarily as had been anticipated . |