Example sentences of "[vb pp] but not " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old market town was surrounded but not transformed by these activities . |
| 2 | Ye of little faith should know that it could be earned but not in a normal working week . |
| 3 | Connected sets of points remain connected , and curves remain topologically-equivalent curves : the rubber sheet may be distorted but not broken . |
| 4 | A bureaucracy , on balance , promotes efficiency in larger organisations , but it must achieve a balance whereby rules are impersonal but not inhuman , the structure is organised but not rigid , and employees are loyal without being unthinking conformists . |
| 5 | But this did little to consolidate control over a country claimed but not subdued and when Duke Philip of Burgundy broke from his alliance with the English to pledge support for Charles VII at Arras in 1435 , the days of English rule in France were numbered . |
| 6 | Billions of dollars in World Bank loans have been committed but not yet paid out . |
| 7 | On returning a day or two later to pay for them , he saw in the yard a Scania tractor which had been included but not sold at the auction which he had attended . |
| 8 | Yeah , the erm the alternator or distributor it had n't been wired properly , it had been rewired but not done properly . |
| 9 | MacArthur was respected but not widely liked . |
| 10 | Second , there are those types of receipt that are intrinsically unobservable because they do not correspond to market transactions — such as capital gains that are accrued but not realized , and home production . |
| 11 | According to a doctor with considerable experience of cases of dyslexia , the boy was ‘ moderately dyslexic , but the effects … are offset by his exceptionally high IQ which means that those effects are modified but not eliminated … . |
| 12 | This contrasted with the more expansionary programmes of France , West Germany and Italy ; programmes which have been modified but not extinguished by the economic recession and the concern with state expenditure . |
| 13 | Plutonium still in AGR and Magnox reactor fuel was estimated to total 8–5 tonnes ; discharged but not yet reprocessed plutonium amounted to 3–5 tonnes ; while plutonium awaiting processing , but in an intermediate form , came to just half a tonne , the same amount as had been exported for civil purposes . |
| 14 | Like malaria , tuberculosis has been contained but not eliminated . |
| 15 | AIDS contained but not conquered |
| 16 | It is recommended but not essential that the version supplied for the Product package be an approved version . |
| 17 | Interestingly , the main form of credit considered but not used in 1977 was a bank personal loan , with HP , credit cards and bank overdrafts following . |
| 18 | This marks a change since 1969 , when HP and mail order were the forms of credit most often considered but not used . |
| 19 | The main type of credit considered but not used was a bank personal loan — confirming the trend suggested by the 1977 survey . |
| 20 | The question whether the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher applies in all its strictness to local authorities has been considered but not decided . |
| 21 | Claire was shattered but not crushed . |
| 22 | Wine , too , was highly priced but not particularly rare . |
| 23 | Terms such as alternative , natural , unorthodox , or unconventional are closely related but not synonymous . |
| 24 | Justice should be done but not in superabundance , he added . |
| 25 | There was n't much ; a few drawings of birds , quite well done but not of the calibre of the great da Vinci 's notebook . |
| 26 | Some insurance premiums will be taxed but not life insurance . |
| 27 | By 1967 memory transfer labs were back in business again , injecting a variety of brain extracts and claiming many and varied results — one group of researchers for instance trained some rats to press levers for food with their right paw and others with the left , and found that one behaviour could be transferred but not the other ! |
| 28 | In the present case the House of Lords found that Hardie & lane v. Chilton was correctly decided but not that a demand for money in lieu of placing on the stop list would be lawful in all circumstances . |
| 29 | Herbs in rough places , juniper , rosemary and thyme , which she would have named but not identified , oregano which she could not even have named . |
| 30 | Further , KPMG alleges in the letter that the control mechanisms that were in place were not properly operated by management , and KPMG 's recommendations for them to be strengthened were accepted but not fully implemented . |