Example sentences of "but [verb] not [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company has set up focus groups to talk to large US PC users , but has n't yet hit on a magic formula that will allow it to get at users directly and in a cost effective way . |
| 2 | From Table 6 and Table 7 , we see that short-term memory has already started to decay after 15 seconds , but has not completely decayed until somewhere between 15 and 25 seconds . |
| 3 | The terms and conditions also address such grey areas such as what happens if the buyer has possession of a work , but has not completely paid for it when it is stolen ( the liability is the buyer 's ) , and the duty of such a buyer who has partially paid for a work , to store the work separately from his own goods , not to export it , to retain the seller 's identifying marks , and to allow the seller or his agent access to the work . |
| 4 | ( 2 ) Straight or curved lines that radiate from a common centre , but do not necessarily pass through it . |
| 5 | Maturity comes late and the cows are often as much as four years old before they conceive , while the bulls can be sexually mature at 18–20 months old but do not usually mate until about four years old . |
| 6 | ‘ But do n't just talk about the Honda riders . |
| 7 | But do n't even think of trying anything against him . |
| 8 | However , few true expert systems exist , but many extremely useful systems that utilise human knowledge but do n't necessarily perform at the expert level are in regular operation . |
| 9 | We are one of about three hundred Amnesty groups in the country , probably about this size , perhaps , well were , were , I mean this , this group is probably about an average for the , you know , the groups in the country , some are smaller , some are much larger , but er , usually it 's about a dozen or so people meeting once a month or , or that often in a room , erm , but apart from groups there are a l there are a great many more people who are called individual members of Amnesty about eighty thousand I think now who are , who just joined by writing to headquarters and many of those have no contact with the groups at all , we 've had list of the people in this area and they run into hundred and fifty , two hundred people who live in this area who er , who belong , who , who belong to Amnesty but do n't actually come to a group except for a small number of us . |
| 10 | He explains how he felt a tingling sensation down his left-hand side but did not immediately call for help . |
| 11 | We have seen that there were two main forms of political alignment in Restoration England : the Whig–Tory one , which came to the fore during the Exclusion Crisis , and an earlier tradition of strife between Country and Court , which fed into , but did not directly overlap with , the subsequent party divide . |
| 12 | I interpret this as meaning that Rey indicated any new tempo carefully enough if he needed to , but did not always beat throughout a given section . |
| 13 | Fathers took pleasure and pride in their sons ' successes , but did not publicly defer to them on that account . |
| 14 | But did n't there have to be something out there , just to witness , just to know ? |
| 15 | A pig-headed brute who could jump himself out of anything , like a cat , but did n't always choose to , and did n't always take me with him . |
| 16 | she , she used to go on about it and all this and I , I sort of fell out with her at one time , but did n't actually speak to her about it |
| 17 | And while he was reared on metal and later discovered punk — but did n't necessarily subscribe to the attitudes for fear of losing individuality — he appreciates the blues . |
| 18 | Long term serological surveillance studies have also found that in most patients without H pylori infection , 12 months after anti- H pylori therapy , both specific IgA and specific IgG antibody values were lower but had not yet returned to the normal range . |
| 19 | It soon became apparent that he had not only failed to read the book but had not even succeeded in struggling to the end of the blurb , though this did not of course stop him talking at length . |
| 20 | ‘ 1 Researcher acts as observer … physically present at the event which he observes , but does not really participate in it … 2 Researcher participates , but as researcher … participation is determined by his research interests , rather than by the roles required in the situation he is studying … 3 Researcher participates … the researcher temporarily abdicates his study role and becomes a ‘ real ’ participant . |
| 21 | Such behaviour may be practised by animals of any age , and at different times of year , and sometimes between the same sex , but does not always lead to mating . |
| 22 | By contrast , the domestic cat ranks fourth on the female list , but does n't even appear on the male top 10 . |
| 23 | Such changes in the target areas of lending not only make its impact more difficult to assess , but have not yet led to a sustained improvement in the rate of economic growth achieved by recipient countries . |