Example sentences of "[adj] but [be] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Le Gentilhomme ( 464664 ) on the Noordeinde may sound French but is not . |
| 2 | He 's pretty blunt and pretty direct but is not terribly comfortable talking with people from outside his " fraternity " . " |
| 3 | Being a pondkeeper I was very interested but was not able to purchase these fish without more information . |
| 4 | It can be uncomfortable but is not painful . |
| 5 | The fangs of this pygmy rattlesnake are clearly visible but are not yet in the full striking position . |
| 6 | Without a reinforcing reputation he might simply be classed as a ‘ Bullshitter ’ — the boy who thinks he 's hard but is n't and rejected accordingly . |
| 7 | Further small cuts in nominal rates would be welcome but are not enough . |
| 8 | The ‘ green bill ’ was welcome but was not sufficient , although it does mark the beginning of the end of the Government 's doctrine of deregulation , the report says . |
| 9 | Experience in Clinical Cytogenetics would be valuable but is not essential . |
| 10 | The woman sitting next to her looked pregnant but was n't , Lee decided . |
| 11 | Molar loss is the number of places in the mandible where a tooth should be present but is not ; and molars expected is the total number of teeth that should be present in the available sample of mandibles ( mostly this is 3 per mandible ) . |
| 12 | Spurs play their possesion futba which looks good but is not at all dangerous — when they had chances for breaks they just kept passing the ball instead of going for the fast break . |
| 13 | If a line sounds ringingly good but is n't true , out with it — such an approach is bracingly free of writerly self-infatuation . |
| 14 | A superficially similar rearrangement ( called a PSEUDOCLEFT because it looks a bit like a cleft but is n't one ) is shown in this example : What contemporary novelists do well is comment on novel-writing rather than tell stories . |
| 15 | The Italians lost to North Korea , showing us what negative , cowardly football they exemplified ; the Germans looked arrogant but were n't strong enough to stop themselves being beaten by England ‘ again ’ ( as in two world wars ) ; while Argentina misbehaved temperamentally at the ‘ home of football ’ , Wembley . |
| 16 | Different languages may differ phonetically , for example the lovely sound like a soft gargle when a Scottish person says ‘ auch the loch ’ is also used in Danish but is not used in England . |
| 17 | unc These are equivalent , but the rule does not prove this because the left hand program is finite but is not weaker than any finite syntactic approximation to the right hand program . |
| 18 | A mouse makes the game more playable but is not essential . |
| 19 | I accept that what you say is well-meant but is not it possible that you yourself … ’ |
| 20 | He tells sister that he is relieved to know that his illness is treatable but is not sure how to change his lifestyle . |
| 21 | These terms are used in KPMG 's international Special Engagements Manual but are not yet widely used in the UK . |
| 22 | Farmers could buy and sell through their local co-operative but were not obliged to do so . |
| 23 | One way was to synthesize compounds which had all the useful properties of 6-MP but were not attacked by xanthine oxidase : this was achieved with the synthesis of a substance later named azathioprine . |
| 24 | Okay , and it needs to be opened up in someway , which sounds a bit drastic but is n't actually that bad . |