Example sentences of "but not [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Dogs were deprived of food but not water for 18 hours before surgery and experiments . |
| 3 | Size clearly has something to do with its effect , he wrote , but not size as reflection of ego . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The family can find forgiveness but not comprehension of a crime which it will take weeks to clear up . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Volumes were selected from the period 1982–92 and only original articles were eligible for analysis ( including letters but not correspondence in Nature ) . |
| 11 | Thus monarch in 14 has queen but not king as a synonym , whereas in 15 it has king but not queen : |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | At the front of the queue , but not part of it , is a lanky white guy about thirty years of age . |
| 20 | So we were able to tell how many tickets of certain classes were sold each day but not route by route , we 'd lost that that facility because the waybills just were n't big enough and of course the , wa everything got mechanical but now I mean I do n't profess to know anything about what happens now but I was introduced to it when I went down there for a retirement and believe me it 's , it 's all electronics now they can tell how a ticket machine is issuing tickets at any particular one day by this , this electronic business , this computers . |
| 21 | So he said erm , well in that case , he said erm , you were walking together but not arm in arm ? |
| 22 | This is unlike the activation induced by the powerful stimulus of calcium ionophores in that prostaglandins induce platelet dense body secretion and α-granule secretion but not secretion of lysosomal hydrolases ( MacIntyre , 1979 ) . |
| 23 | The law says you can marry at 16 , but not consent to homosexual acts until you are 21 . |
| 24 | sine X but not sine of three X. |
| 25 | Problems would also be experienced if the authorities sought to control the narrow monetary base : namely , banks ' balances with the Bank of England ( but not cash in tills ) . |
| 26 | Again , the welfare state had in many respects advanced equality of opportunity , but not equality of outcome . |
| 27 | Interestingly , Egypt described the Memorandum as changing the United States ' role from one of ‘ partner ’ ( but not party to the Peace Treaty ) to one of ‘ arbiter ’ which it considered inappropriate . |
| 28 | There may be an alveolar closure immediately preceding and overlapping with a velar closure ; there may be simultaneous alveolar and velar closure , or a velar closure followed by slight contact but not closure in the alveolar region . |
| 29 | If only manner of articulation and voicing are known , but not place of articulation , then all those words or parts of words corresponding to this mid-class description can be accessed . |
| 30 | Get some movement out there we had a young , a young lady who er she name and she 's up front in the cabinet you know every opportunity she had she was looking for round the room , but not sort of in the round the outside all the time and it 's just that she wanted to be with a group of people all the time . |