Example sentences of "not [adj] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | One Sunday afternoon , when Dana and I were sitting on the edge of the bed working over versions of various poems , the door , which we always left unlocked , suddenly burst open and a group of surly-looking students entered , led by a big bully who was not Spanish but Venezuelan . |
| 2 | The domes are not hemispherical but spheroidal in shape and are elongated towards the top ; the pendentives are also elongated and more in the form of squinches . |
| 3 | And in fact the coffee rooms not only were not profitable but I think at one time were even subsidized by the directors ' own pocket which just how balmy some people can be . |
| 4 | As he lolled in his chair , not asleep but relaxed , he could remember that he had felt no tension , less excitement , as he had thrown his bag into the back seat of the car , climbed into the front carrying the Ruger with the integral silencer in a large plastic shopping bag . |
| 5 | They are not arcane but easily enjoyable . |
| 6 | that there is that fear , that is because that is the second World War this is why the erm the er late thirties , early forties was never gon na succeed , because they had two completely different archaeologist , plus now in their purest form their not that but in the they were , they were never going to work , I mean that is the fact that their communists , the sole reason they 've been against each other for a hundred and fifty years there is no other reason |
| 7 | Indeed Punk Rock 's attitude to the sex act itself was not libertarian but puritan : |
| 8 | The phraseology ‘ I 'm not prejudiced but … ’ , and its variants , suggest a cognitive , or attitudinal , ambivalence , for the phraseology simultaneously expresses two contrary themes . |
| 9 | This can be seen in attempts to divide the contrary themes of ‘ I 'm not prejudiced but … ’ into separate levels ; by claiming that one of the contrary themes possesses a deeper psychological significance , one resolves the apparent contradiction . |
| 10 | Thus the conflict behind ‘ I 'm not prejudiced but … ’ is merely the conflict between the individual and extraneous social customs ( or perhaps , other people ) , but a conflict within individuals , who have two contrasting ideological themes upon which to draw . |
| 11 | The very phrase ‘ I 'm not prejudiced but … ’ indicates the connection between the concept of ‘ prejudice ’ and those views of outgroups , which social psychologists typically accept as indicators of prejudice . |
| 12 | Similarly , the phrase ‘ I 'm not prejudiced but … ’ represents an advance justification ( or prolepsis ) against the criticism of being prejudiced ( see Billig , 1987 , for further discussion of this point ) . |
| 13 | On the other hand , the frequent use of the concept in the formula ‘ I 'm not prejudiced but … ’ implies the limits of these traditions , at least as instantiated in everyday reality . |
| 14 | The person who uses the phrase ‘ I 'm not prejudiced but … ’ implies some image of what the ‘ prejudiced ’ person is like , and this image is similar to that held by Voltaire , in that the prejudiced person is presumed to hold views , which have not been formed rationally . |
| 15 | As such , the phrase , ‘ I 'm not prejudiced but … ’ is not merely a defence of rationality in general , but is a defence against that particular son of irrationality which leads to hostility against individuals based upon the colour of their skin or the provenance of their passport . |
| 16 | The differences between the brains of different species are not accidental but reflect differences in the abilities and lifestyles of the species concerned . |
| 17 | For example , the ‘ EEC recommended air lead limit … ’ is not 1.5 but 2 micrograms/cu.m , and the suggestion that the air in British cities is ‘ statutorily unfit to breath ’ is incorrect . |
| 18 | Information regarding numbers is not definite but total may be about 500,000 . " |
| 19 | This close liaison with the NID was obviously liable to be misunderstood within the ranks of the BDDA so that is not surprising to find the BDDA 's annual report for 1925 explaining that : The executive committee wish it to be clearly understood that the NID is not antagonistic but rather complementary to our own Association . |
| 20 | A number of people had detected there was something amiss but these people — and I was one — believed that they erred by favouring not Labour but the Conservatives . |
| 21 | It may have been not descriptive but ironic ( implying Charles was exceptionally hairy ) . |
| 22 | Just because you can do something well does not mean that you are not brainy but when you show your academic prowess along practical lines you are not considered by this government to be of the same worth as someone who can recall knowledge on one day . |
| 23 | The hope was that the assembly would come to be accepted by both religious groups ; unanimity was not possible but the objective was to achieve a fairly broad consensus . |
| 24 | ‘ I know it 's not possible but it 's happened , ’ he said angrily . |
| 25 | Denote this intervention by X. In the case of agriculture , biology , medicine and even psychology , formal laboratory or field experiments can usually be done ; in the social sciences this is generally not possible but a good survey can often be thought of in quasi-experimental terms . |
| 26 | Criminals are being found ‘ guilty but mentally ill ’ , rather than ‘ not guilty but mentally insane ’ . |
| 27 | Not computerized but digital controlled . |
| 28 | Much of this was not respectable but at least it showed that popular music and humour could be channelled into the conventions of legitimate theatre . |
| 29 | Her techniques were not subtle but they were effective . |
| 30 | Monarchy became itinerant as it had not been since the Middle Ages , but the reason for this was not administrative but political and diplomatic . |