Example sentences of "but not [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many societies have been conserving the environment perfectly well for millennia , and have integrated conservation into cultivation practices , but not as an explicit programme . |
| 2 | Even the ‘ nightwatchman ’ state of nineteenth century England did this , but not as an active and necessary persona . |
| 3 | You want to stand out in the assessor 's mind but not as an insensitive bully trying to throw your weight around . |
| 4 | This is correct as a statement of fact , but not as an analysis of the logic behind their success . |
| 5 | [ This observation is in accord with the classic theological understanding of creation , which sees God as the ground and support of all that is ( in our terms , the guarantor of the Schrödinger equation ) but not as an object among objects ( no collapser of wavepackets ) . ] |
| 6 | The Foreign Minister was Nguyen Tuong Tam who had been in south China but not as an associate of Ho Chi Minh ( he fled from Hanoi in June 1946 ) . |
| 7 | Marchbank was , first and foremost , a designer , not a journalist ; Al Clark had some journalistic experience , but not as an editor ; nobody had any great confidence in the man Branson had appointed as publisher , Greg Thain . |
| 8 | ‘ But not as an estate agent ? ’ |
| 9 | But this access would be only to an interpretation translation at the lower level ( one in which there remains a one — many mapping of commands ) but not to an ( inscrutable ) compilation translation . |
| 10 | If you 've got an Action Replay cart you can disassemble and display machine code routines , but not with an ordinary reset switch . |
| 11 | Yes , but not on an on-going basis . |
| 12 | Genuine covert work , perhaps ; but not without an element of cinema . |
| 13 | This was specific because it was competitively inhibited by peptide 15 but not by an unrelated peptide , peptide 1 ( compare tracks 6 and 5 ) . |
| 14 | In his buoyant narrative style , his particularly exact , observant eye for detail , his confident concentration on a particular event coloured by emotion but not by an intensity of analysis , he offers a significant contrast to Conrad 's dense , probing accounts of similar events . |
| 15 | This section will be displaced by the adoption of a new partnership agreement but not by an unexecuted draft or by heads of agreement unless their terms have in fact been acted upon or all the partners have agreed to be bound by those terms ( see Walters v Bingham [ 1988 ] 1 FTLR 260 ) . |
| 16 | If a breach of public law also amounts to a breach of the European Convention on Human Rights it may be possible to obtain an award of compensation under the Convention from the European Court of Human Rights , but not from an English Court . |
| 17 | The hon. Gentleman came not from an especially poor background , but not from an especially advantaged one either . |
| 18 | Capra 's film was to be one of the most successful , acclaimed , and important films in the depression period because it was firmly set in contemporary America , but not in an America preoccupied with social problems . |
| 19 | He seemed anxious to please , but not in an unctuous way . |
| 20 | The vast majority of working-class women worked , but not in an occupation shared by husbands or fathers . |