Example sentences of "but [not/n't] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 Everyone remembered him as a big man in all senses but not as a good headmaster except that he liked everyone and everyone liked him and in chapel he was a superlative speaker .
2 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 .
3 But not as a matter of influence as such .
4 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 .
5 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 ) .
6 We may also gain — but not as a right — valued sons and daughters-in-law and grandchildren to love and enjoy .
7 But not as a group .
8 ‘ Miss Hatherby certainly influenced me , but not as a mother would .
9 He approved of Clarkson 's travels to secure witnesses for the Privy Council hearings but not as a focus for popular agitation .
10 The quantity and quality of social interaction during work time can apparently act as a ‘ dissatisfier ’ but not as a ‘ satisfier ’ .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 It varies of course as a function of time but not as a function of the spatial coordinates .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 New York-based Judith Barry 's installation is also uninspiring , didactically retracing familiar issues to do with the dehumanising implications of technology , its potential to control rather than serve humankind. computer generated references to the history of communications fleet across the floorspace between two walls of words , one written as mirror writing but not as a direct reflection of the other .
18 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 .
19 Such is contrary to the wishes of the CLRC ( p.28 ) : " A bogus beggar is regarded as a rogue but not as a thief …
20 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 .
21 To ask a child to get dressed is a reasonable requirement of a seven-year-old but not of a two-year-old .
22 The number of matings strongly influences the reproductive success of a male , but not of a female .
23 This does erupt , but not to a defined time schedule .
24 Here , indications for hydrothermal activity along Hercynian striking fractures were found , so that a strong but short heat supply may be assumed , leading to local coalification maxima but not to a significant loss of reservoir porosity .
25 I wanted to get rid of him , but not to a cop .
26 Thus they considered it an affront to a man 's dignity — but not to a woman 's — to earn a wage only on a par with social security benefits .
27 Atherton argues that the mass of the American people remain committed to support for the ‘ genuinely poor , sick , disabled and disadvantaged ’ , but not to a redistributive welfare programme .
28 Older people may take longer to retrain for new tasks than younger , but not to a degree that makes such retraining not worth while .
29 Andrew 's face lights up when he talks about such projects and his conversation is punctuated with the names of theatres , directors and actor 's actors — people well-known in the business but not to a wider audience .
30 But not to a midget who 's just eaten my lunch and whom I 've subsequently insulted , who then turns out to be one of the world 's top dress designers .
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