Example sentences of "[noun prp] but [was/were] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | New jobs , particularly in financial and professional services were being created in the City and in Docklands but were not going to local residents . |
| 2 | The accident occurred late on Tuesday or early on Wednesday but was not discovered until a few survivors emerged and bodies began floating ashore . |
| 3 | The barony of Scrope devolved on the representative of his niece Mary but was not taken up ; the earldom of Sunderland became extinct . |
| 4 | Four troops of yeomanry were held in reserve in Luton but were not needed . |
| 5 | In October 1980 Rajinder Anand and his brother Gurcharan Anand gave an undertaking to a High Court judge , Mr Justice Graham , that they would refrain from handling any cassettes that bore the name Sony but were not genuine Sony products . |
| 6 | In style it owed much to Ancient Rome but was not only a copy of it ; it showed Byzantine influence and also new ideas , adapting itself to its own period . |
| 7 | The only person who approached me was poor Ian Smith , who came to London but was not a representative at the talks . |
| 8 | By contrast , the expression of the α v containing fibronectin binding integrin was reduced to 53% by treatment with DNJ but was not altered by DMJ . |