Example sentences of "but it be not [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Court of Protection exists to defend elderly or mentally incapacitated people , but it is not widely known . |
| 2 | Not only does the site not have planning permission for office development but it is not even zoned for this use and would thus require a material contravention order or a Section 4 motion by the City fathers to allow any big office development here . |
| 3 | But it is not just played for easy excitement : this is alarming because it is so near the edge of what is possible , and yet it has just enough in reserve for tremendous final prestissimo . |
| 4 | The Duke has initiated an important debate , but it is not yet concluded . |
| 5 | The Duke has initiated an important debate , but it is not yet concluded . |
| 6 | As a general strategy , this is fine , but it is not yet broken down far enough to be useful . |
| 7 | Venice is in peril , but it is not yet doomed . |
| 8 | But it is not yet known whether the teenager is returning to her mother or remaining with her 18-year-old boyfriend 's family . |
| 9 | Its site was evidently occupied beforehand — the outer walls near the main entrance in the eastern corner extend across the remains of earlier houses — but it is not yet known whether a temple stood there . |
| 10 | Directives are based on Roman law whereby absolute duties are set out in the law but it is not vigorously enforced . |
| 11 | ‘ But it is not automatically invalidated ? ’ interrupted Benedict anxiously . |
| 12 | Certainly , the middle-brow approach to the consumer marketing campaign throws a certain light on the productions , but it is not necessarily reflected in the character of the shows themselves . |
| 13 | Britain is an island , but it is not culturally isolated . |
| 14 | The OSF/1 Unix will also aim for high security ( B-1 level ) , but it is not now expected to appear before November 1990 . |
| 15 | If that is the case why is it that the order relating to insurance and building society er building societies , specifically makes the point that the auditor must be working erm in his capacity as such whereas the orders on banking and financial services er it may be implicit the er the auditor is working er in his or her capacity as such er but it is not explicitly stated because the phraseology is different . |
| 16 | But it is not always seen in this way . |
| 17 | A back fist will out-range a reverse punch performed by an opponent of equal height but it is not often scored because many referees do not consider it powerful enough . |
| 18 | Clearly , stress has linguistic importance and is therefore an aspect of the phonology of English that must be described , but it is not usually regarded as something that is related to individual segmental phonemes ; normally , stress is said to be something that is applied to ( or is a property of ) syllables , and is therefore part of the suprasegmental phonology of English . |
| 19 | It clearly might apply to the poet 's relationship , but it is not specifically said to . |
| 20 | Where a report finds that injustice has been caused to the complainant by maladministration , a local authority if responsible must consider the report and inform the Local Commissioner what action it proposes to take , but it is not legally bound to follow any particular course of action . |
| 21 | This is fairly well known , but it is not commonly realized that synthetic detergents are affected deleteriously by the hardness of the water , although not to the same extent as soaps . |
| 22 | This is a marked structure , but it is not highly marked because adverbials are fairly mobile elements in English . |
| 23 | I know what you said but it is n't even dried yet . |
| 24 | At a local level sponsors so often are involved in the club on a more direct way but it is n't always seen as a problem and can be enormously beneficial to both parties . |
| 25 | Well , I 've got to be honest , if you actually ask and negotiate with the company , it can offer reduced benefits and reduced premiums to the client 's circumstances , but it 's not generally advertised . |
| 26 | Well I mean I 'm not going away this year , but it 's not really bothered me an awful lot |
| 27 | I 've got a filing cabinet that 's sat in my little corner which is empty , just a big tin box that 's got little keys , I mean , but it 's not ideally situated at the moment . |
| 28 | It 's a bit of a mess but it 's not totally destroyed . |
| 29 | Two swing eighth notes resemble this triplet figure : *** Sometimes you might see this at the beginning of a chart : ***** In some texts , you might find the rhythm written as *** but it 's not actually played like that . |
| 30 | Funky guitars copulate with abrasive melodies on songs like ‘ Lucky Me ’ , but it 's not all based on jumped-up jollification . |