Example sentences of "but not [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In these circumstances the courts will find that the plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence but not volens to the risk ( Owens v Brimmell [ 1977 ] QB 859 ) . |
| 2 | Reports of selective depletion of a common set of V elements in people with HIV infection , and that HIV selectivity stimulates and replicates in CD4 cells with particular V elements in vitro , are compatible with ( but not proof of ) HIV encoding a superantigen . |
| 3 | Dogs were deprived of food but not water for 18 hours before surgery and experiments . |
| 4 | Size clearly has something to do with its effect , he wrote , but not size as reflection of ego . |
| 5 | Literacy , too , has the potential to generate logic and scepticism — but not literacy in general , only that form of it which developed in classical Greece . |
| 6 | Sean said : ‘ It 's all right to sell off confiscated goods such as videos and TVs but not equipment for breaking into cars and houses . |
| 7 | The first should result in a lower incidence of infections , possibly in combination with decreased severity due to a lower average ‘ dose ’ of pathogens crossing the mucosal barrier , whereas the second will tend towards a decreased severity , but not incidence of infection . |
| 8 | The as yet unnamed company will compete for contracts from high technology companies , but not ones in the computer industry because of the competition this would create with IBM . |
| 9 | After the Civil War , a Fourteenth Amendment was added binding state legislatures and courts in similar terms , so that protection against prior censorship was guaranteed , but not protection against proceedings for obscenity . |
| 10 | Age influenced perceptions of family circumstances ( the older were more pessimistic than the young ) but not perceptions of Britain 's performance . |
| 11 | In her reactionary way — for Lili had been brought up by an independent , feminist mother — she thought it all right for men to carry suitcases but not bags of washing . |
| 12 | The family can find forgiveness but not comprehension of a crime which it will take weeks to clear up . |
| 13 | The Victorians understood ‘ The environment ’ to mean the background to human activity , in particular , industrial activity — a subject of concern to public health inspectors and philanthropists , but not society in general . |
| 14 | Volumes were selected from the period 1982–92 and only original articles were eligible for analysis ( including letters but not correspondence in Nature ) . |
| 15 | Thus monarch in 14 has queen but not king as a synonym , whereas in 15 it has king but not queen : |
| 16 | The HCIMA may replace lost or damaged certificates and diplomas ( but not records of achievement ) on payment of a fee . |
| 17 | This will tend to exempt users of word processors from registration , but not users of databases containing more than names and addresses . |
| 18 | Well that 's getting near it , but not members of the police authority who are in and should have the role of non-executive directors . |
| 19 | Ghannouchi denied the charges from Paris , telling Radio France International on May 23 that his movement had supporters but not militants inside the army and was opposed to military coups . |
| 20 | The 1976 Act allows charges of possession and handling of explosives to be brought in the Republic , but not charges of conspiracy to cause murder or explosions . |
| 21 | Carol Wilson , who had joined in Music Publishing and signed Sting 's songwriting to the company ( but not Sting as an artist ) had developed her own label , DinDisc , under the Virgin umbrella , which in 1980 gave the company one of its best-selling artists , Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark . |
| 22 | However , on Dec. 17 a motion which the Socialists had helped to draft , to indict Hervé and Dufoix but not Fabius for " failing to assist people in danger " , was blocked when the Socialists changed their minds and refused to vote on the motion as it stood . |
| 23 | The Senate initially voted , on Dec. 10 , to bring Dufoix and Hervé but not Fabius before the court . |
| 24 | He said that Colonel Guillermo Wong , arrested by General Noriega after the rebellion failed , was part of the US plot , but not part of Tuesday 's abortive coup . |
| 25 | By accepting the jurisdiction of an external authority in domestic matters , the UK in effect converted her responsibility for the external relations of the Isle of Man into a total responsibility for its internal affairs , and abrogated by a sidewind the semi-independence of the Islands , which are under the Crown but not part of the United Kingdom . |
| 26 | A covered area under the fly but not part of the inner — pretty essential in wet weather for storing gear and for use as a cooking area . |
| 27 | Greece 's natural interest in Europe , like Britain 's , is to be part of a wealth-creating economic confederation , but not part of a political union in which it could get out-voted on something it considered vital . |
| 28 | That the situation was as it was , and hence that certain events did not and certain events did occur , is indeed much of our reason for asserting the conditional statement but not part of the statement . |
| 29 | I will simply arrange for that to be sent to the Councils for them to take into account alongside , but not part of , my report . |
| 30 | What characterises these speaker-initiated insertion sequences , then , is that the London English part of the speaker 's turn is a sequence embedded in the turn but not part of the mainstream ; it does not necessarily start at a syntactic clause completion point ( for example ( 8 ) , where it begins after a subject pronoun ) and its purpose is to elicit information , or check on information to make it possible for the speaker to complete the current turn ( Sebba and Wootton 1984 : 4 ) . |