Example sentences of "[det] [noun] but they [be] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | We could devise alternative definitions of these phenomena but they are not likely to be any more helpful than those we have . |
| 2 | Shortages of skilled manpower and management skills may well be immediately traceable to these developments but they are not , by any means , wholly attributable to them . |
| 3 | And same , well and and Prussia as well for that matter but they 're not so , so important . |
| 4 | the Health Service is deteriorating so bad , and they said no not so much that it 's that they 're not , they 've got enough staff but they 're not being managed correctly |
| 5 | As we have commented in previous books , the polytechnics in particular are for the most part anxious to redress the anomaly between themselves and universities whereby the latter are allowed to award their own degrees but they are not . |
| 6 | Bet and Alec Gilroy on Coronation Street are guilty of chain-smoking their way through most episodes but they 're not the only ones . |