Example sentences of "[is] not [adj] but [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This suggestion is not implausible but it remains to specify the mechanism by which the content of a memory might act to determine its retrievability . |
| 2 | To try to predict the state of the market in five years time is not easy but it seems likely that the products will be more integrated , have a degree of artificial intelligence to provide unskilled operators with advice on how to compose the pages and support colour both through local printing systems and via links to professional equipment . |
| 3 | Data on admission to hospital is not comprehensive but they suggest that admission rates rise with declining social class . |
| 4 | It is not perfect but I have no time to edit it further . |
| 5 | ( " he is not old but he suffers terribly from gout " ) . |
| 6 | It 's not dangerous but she loses power . |
| 7 | ‘ I know it 's not possible but it 's happened , ’ he said angrily . |
| 8 | I have my doubts but Morgan maintained : ‘ It 's not insurmountable but we have to work very hard . ’ |
| 9 | It 's not scientific but I felt like it . |
| 10 | It 's not bad but he do n't use them till they 've run out he just uses them and leaves them laying about and come and takes some more . |
| 11 | and it was dark green oh it it 's not bad but you know I 'd just lost ten pounds to the taxi driver to him giving me the wrong change so I was feeling in a very frugal mood an and this the green of this candlestick holder you know what I call the old fashioned dark green , of some china ? |
| 12 | Well if he 's not busy but he said he might go fishing . |