Example sentences of "but [not/n't] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to this view you can reach for security through self-help — individual action , or action in small groups of like-minded people — but not through reliance on big bureaucracies . |
| 2 | but not through mud , not through water . |
| 3 | There was a significant correlation between faecal fat and amount of malabsorbed carbohydrate ( r=0.60 , F 1 , 1 7 =9.70 , p=0.006 ) and faecal fat and stool wet weight ( r=0.57 , F 1 , 1 8 =8.67 , p<0.009 ) , but not between stool wet weight and amount of malabsorbed carbohydrate ( r=0.28 , F 1 , 1 7 =1.45 , p=0.25 ) . |
| 4 | There was a significant correlation between faecal fat and amount of malabsorbed carbohydrate ( y=3.25+0.88x , r=0.60 , F 1 , 1 7 =9.70 , p=0.006 ) ( Fig 3 ) , as well as between faecal fat and stool wet weight ( y=146.70+7.13x , r=0.57 , F 1 , 1 8 =8.67 , p<0.002 ) , but not between stool wet weight and amount of malabsorbed carbohydrate ( r=0.28 , F 1 , 1 7 =1.45 , p=0.25 ) . |
| 5 | There was a positive correlation between platelet activating factor precursors and acid or pepsin output but not between platelet activating factor precursors and sialic acid . |
| 6 | Under an agreement brokered by the Commonwealth Secretariat , the Council agreed to allow him to return as chief and as head of the royal family , but not as monarch . |
| 7 | The Company sold guns to the Indians , but not as part of a process of political disturbance like that caused by the slave trade in West Africa ; Indian hunters quite soon preferred guns to bows and arrows for hunting , and hunting was the basis for the Hudson Bay trade . |
| 8 | They re-entered general service in 1947 , but not as train sets . |
| 9 | The assassin was referred to , but not as Chant 's executioner . |
| 10 | Other types of social science are seen , on this view , as being poetic or philosophical visions , but not as science . |
| 11 | The Secretary of State talked about cost , economy , efficiency and effectiveness but not about quality or service . |
| 12 | He was prepared to bargain about money , but not about power . |
| 13 | The barbet species spread as far east as Bali but not into Lombok separated by only 15 miles ( 24 km ) of water . |
| 14 | This compares with a bill of around £600 in this country , including solicitors ' costs and mortgage evaluation fee , but not including Stamp Duty ( at least until August ) . |
| 15 | A major rescheduling package was concluded after a three-day Paris Club meeting on Feb. 16 , covering a total of $9,000 million including some $3,4000 million in arrears outstanding from 1989 , but not including debt reduction . |
| 16 | At the Communist world conference in 1957 held in post-Sputnik euphoria , Mao Tse-tung declared that the East wind was prevailing over the West wind and that nuclear war would mean the end of capitalism but not of communism : if 300 million Chinese were killed , there would still be 300 million left alive . |
| 17 | After four months Alderman Joshua Smith , president of Southwark Borough Council , secured her release from prison — but not of course from the rest of her debts . |
| 18 | Show how the Exclusive Or operation can be used to ( a ) clear a word , ( b ) interchange two words without using an intermediate location , and ( c ) add two binary numbers ( And and shift may be used in this last part , but not of course any arithmetic operations ) . |
| 19 | But not of course the intrepid airmen who gathered for today 's briefing . |
| 20 | Therefore , luminal infusion of bile significantly increased the release of PYY but not of enteroglucagon or VIP . |
| 21 | The project scientist who sent me the disappointed and sceptical account of all this said that there were shrieks from the store room , but not of success . |
| 22 | The official ‘ tests ’ were seen as important from the point of view of accountability , but not of teaching . |
| 23 | ‘ You may accuse me of anything you like , ’ he answered stiffly , ‘ but not of complacency . |
| 24 | Enteral administration of terra fullonica and kaolin , but not of charcoal , significantly reduced systemic endotoxaemia ( terra fullonica 4.2 ( 1.40 ) pg/ml ; kaolin 5.29 ( 1.86 ) pg/ml ; charcoal 32.7 ( 16.6 ) pg/ml ; water 39.8 ( 12.6 ) pg/ml ) . |
| 25 | Again much of the published evidence comes from studies in volunteers , which have shown that repeated doses of activated charcoal increased the elimination of amitriptyline , carbamazepine , dapsone , doxepin , digoxin , digitoxin , phenobarbitone , phenytoin , phenylbutazone , and theophylline but not of imipramine or salicylate . |
| 26 | It can be a valuable indicator of stability , but not of instability . |
| 27 | For example , patients who have induction of EADs and replication of their ventricular tachyarrhythmias during infusion of phenylephrine but not of isoproterenol might be better treated with alpha-blockers than with beta-blockers . |
| 28 | Clinical observation is extremely productive of theories and hypotheses , but not of verification of hypotheses . |
| 29 | This is a person who sees nothing to recommend the Duomo at Siena ( ‘ it seems to have been got by outlining ’ ) , nor Sienese painting in general : ‘ evidence of love ; but not of art … |
| 30 | Second , in the case of building or other operations ( but not of material changes of use ) the notice must be served within four years of the development being carried out . |