Example sentences of "but not [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 We do need order , concern , mutual consideration and careful thought , but not as devices to suppress the darker forces .
2 Is the covenant a relation between God and Jewish males , in which Jewish women are included under it , but not as persons who enter into the contract in their own right ?
3 Secondly there are things which would have occurred , if he had not acted thus , but not as consequences of some alternative action of his .
4 Those who will continue to do so will be there of their own free will as status bearers of the nuclear family , a role common enough among English women , but not as possessions .
5 Nor do they intend to underwrite other banks ' loans if the firm goes under ; they say they will take part in rescues , but not as guarantors .
6 But not as lovers .
7 M m yes , they talked about work or work , and erm , but not about conditions particularly , and was a medium pit for conditions .
8 Why did I introduce myself as a sceptic about values but not about facts ?
9 the main text of the work but not including headlines .
10 bone breakage in prey assemblages is also diagnostic of certain predators but not of others ;
11 This was so in respect of rectories but not of vicarages .
12 He makes an inventory of forms , but not of contexts in which the forms arise — this would be a very difficult task as the forms often overlap and can cause confusion to the learner .
13 Like Swift they valued the generosity of the heart but not of law-makers , suspected all justice that was not severely retributive , and found confirmation for their faith in the fact that the bloody new tyrannies of Europe were more often atheistical than Christian .
14 LEA-appointed members may outnumber by one the other members ( persons with experience in education or knowledge of local educational conditions , or parents of pupils — but not of pupils at the school which is the subject of the appeal ) .
15 A case in point are the receptive-field properties observed in the cytochrome oxidase blobs that are present in the upper layers of primary visual cortex of monkeys but not of cats ( Livingstone and Hubel 1984 ) .
16 You may also have to state facts which are obvious to you , but not to cousins who have not seen the family for several years .
17 They raise questions about the notion that it guarantees a common curricular entitlement in so far as they yield teaching strategies which are applied to children classified as having learning difficulties , but not to others .
18 One could hypothesise that there is some phonological clue to ethnicity in this speaker 's speech which is apparent to members of the black community but not to others .
19 It was wonderful to be able to listen to her favourite song with impunity , extraordinary that it should still have the power to move her , but not to tears .
20 In Patterson v. McLean Credit Union the court had ruled that an 1866 Civil Rights law prohibiting discrimination in making a contract applied " only to the formation of a contract , but not to problems that may arise later " .
21 The section applies to ‘ presenters ’ and ‘ directors , ’ but not to actors unless the latter depart from the script , in which case they become ‘ directors ’ for the purposes of the Act .
22 Atropine and the 5HT 2 antagonist , ketanserin , also significantly inhibited 5HT induced ICJ transit , but not to concentrations below that of ia saline .
23 IPV recipients also had significantly higher post-vaccination GMTs to poliovirus type 3 ( p < 0.001 ) , but not to types 1 and 2 .
24 By contrast , 27 selects the general reading of dog ( the specific reading would be odd here , but not for reasons connected with maximisation ) :
25 Apparently it was all right to receive money from the Treasury in neat health authority allocations , but not for cheques or , worse still , cash to appear over the hospital counter .
26 I saw her once or twice since , before the Coconut closed , but not for ages now .
27 Hartsock ( 1983 ) argues that for men but not for women :
28 Brenda liked living in the country for some things , but not for others .
29 There must therefore be another process at work affecting performance , a process which is engaged for certain tasks but not for others .
30 I sometimes feared for myself , at first , but not for others .
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