Example sentences of "but not [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the children were provided with information about temporal priority but not about generative transmission . |
| 2 | We know about black people as victims , but not about white people as perpetrators of crimes against black people . |
| 3 | His record as an MP , especially in the Long Parliament ( 1640–8 ) suggests someone extremely active , and useful to the House , but not of major political importance . |
| 4 | The question of whether the offence under section 51 should be triable summarily only is controversial , for reasons examined by the C.L.K.C. Since magistrates often imprison persons convicted of assaulting policemen , but not of simple assault , the propriety of excluding jury trial seems questionable . |
| 5 | But this definition ignores the possibility that lesbianism might have different meanings ; for some , it might be a matter of object choice but not of political or personal identity . |
| 6 | The removal of Alberto Martín Artajo from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs , and his replacement by Fernando María Castiella , represented a change of incumbent , but not of political approach nor ideological commitment . |
| 7 | This has been undesirable , but not of critical importance because our income from invisible exports has made good the difference . |
| 8 | This effect can vitiate scientific observation , as when seventeenth century experimenters , familiar with the concepts of post-Galilean mechanics but not of electrostatic attraction and repulsion , regularly reported observing chaff falling as though by gravitation , or mechanically rebounding from the electrified bodies which attracted them . |
| 9 | Directors have a duty to take into account the interests of the employees of the company but not of other companies in the same group ( s309 Companies Act 1985 ) . |
| 10 | These proposals are helpful , but not of profound significance . |
| 11 | More sober , technical economic analysis has provided much understanding of what we have termed proximate causes of economic performance but not of fundamental causes . |
| 12 | Fisher is a great fan of the Burmah event — but not of tree-lined Lurgan Park and its short , sharp , intimidating stages . |
| 13 | The sequel , in which the young bloods of Derby and Oaks night received their rebuff , was that they were distracted from their other responsibilities by a four-day jury hearing which found them guilty of riotous proceedings , but not of riotous intent . |
| 14 | Then in paragraph three forty he goes on to s to point out that the law er er which was then recently established was that auditors due owe a duty of care to their client company and the whole body of share holders but not to individual share holders and not to non share holding depositors . |
| 15 | No principle is discernible , nor has any been suggested , to explain or justify the giving of corporate status to some but not to other government authorities . |
| 16 | The PGE 2 antibody ( Sigma ) has a cross reactivity of 51% to PGE 1 but not to other eicosanoids . |
| 17 | The technical way in which judicial decisions were made in the colonial courts was alien to indigenous tribunals but not to Sinhalese culture in general . |
| 18 | ‘ Office is an avenue to material well-being ; but not to great wealth ’ ( Miliband 1977 , p. 112 ; see Deutscher 1969 ) . |
| 19 | The same economic and social conditions in the plains area might have led only to loss of soil fertility but not to wholesale soil erosion and environmental collapse . |
| 20 | The mechanism would apply to manufactures and processed agricultural products and capital goods , but not to agricultural raw materials . |
| 21 | As I emphasized at the beginning , the issue is not just one of zoological taxonomy , it is a problem of ethics , and unless you are prepared to argue that Koko the gorilla might become a Christian , ethics concern rules which apply to human beings but not to non-human beings . |
| 22 | Civil legal aid is available for all proceedings under the Children Act 1989 but not to local authorities , the NSPCC , guardians ad litem or anyone acting in a representative , fiduciary or official capacity . |
| 23 | The B antibodies 16818–2 and BRIC 86 were inhibited by oligosaccharides involving a fucose attached to Β galactose , but not to linear disaccharides or to trisaccharides without the attached fucose . |
| 24 | As my colleague Charles Spencer describes on our arts pages , Frances de la Tour and Berwick Kaler spent an acrobatic night undermining Catholicism , but not to universal delight . |
| 25 | Basal UOS pressure is very labile , responding to the child 's level of arousal and to oesophageal distention , but not to oesophageal acidification . |
| 26 | But specific strategies were sadly amissing , for few there were experienced soldiers , used enough to inter-clan battle and feud but not to full-scale national warfare against the English might , as their fathers had learned to be . |
| 27 | The US International Trade Commission has upheld the ridiculous decision that Japanese manufacturers are dumping active matrix liquid crystal displays on the US market to the detriment of a handful of tiny US manufacturers that could never meet the demand from the likes of Apple Computer Inc and IBM Corp , but that alleged dumping of electroluminescent displays has not hurt the US electronics industry ; the active matrix displays carry prohibitive 62.7% tariffs , which apply to imported screens but not to assembled machines that include them , while the electroluminescent displays carried only a 7% tariff . |
| 28 | In most countries women are glad to have jobs in factories and to earn cash , however tedious the work and however low their earnings are relative to male wages ( but not to previous or alternative female pay ) . |
| 29 | But not for real , I hasten to point out . ’ |
| 30 | C3 , C4 and C5 — For the complete areas of study but not for individual elements |