Example sentences of "[noun prp] but [pron] [be] not " in BNC.

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1 Hawaii was of the United States but it was not in it .
2 This man may have fought at Flodden but he is not King James .
3 Friday but they 're not making a promise , but they said that last week
4 They beat us in a pre-season friendly at Ibrox but we are not even thinking about that game .
5 I 'm happy to pare the job down Hugh but I 'm not happy
6 ‘ I played in the friendlies against Wolves and Peterborough but I was not really fit enough , and still felt tired , but that was hardly surprising as these were my first two games .
7 ‘ It 's between Louth and Willoughby but I 'm not saying exactly or we 'll have the whole world knowing ! ’
8 In the following years many proposals were made for the construction of a railway between Welshpool and Llanfair Caereinion but it was not until 1898 that a company was formed to build the present line and the then Earl of Powis became its Chairman , an office which he held until the grouping in 1922 .
9 I did in December but it was not relative to any of the specifications it was simply to try and ascertain how long the contract was was still live , to find out get this guy
10 Hitherto , when they asked us to obey those laws , we have known that we could change them , but hereafter a combination of people with different languages , understandings and cultures can set , and are by combination setting , upon us standards , rules and laws which may be suitable for Greece , central or northern Europe , France or Spain but which are not right for us .
11 The Macrory review considered the existing proposals for reshaping local government in Northern Ireland but they were not limited to these in making their recommendations .
12 ‘ People talk about Newton Aycliffe but it 's not so bad , ’ he says .
13 You 're no the further we , you go away , the further you go away from Blackpool but it 's not at
14 ‘ The US Tour want me to conform , to be lily-white like Jack Nicklaus but I am not him — I am John Daly . ’
15 The next station should have been Mornington Crescent but it was not .
16 There was a letter from Newton but he was not in the mood to read it .
17 Sandison desperately wanted to meet Elisa Stasi but he was not prepared to risk his life doing it .
18 I says Scunnie but it 's not Scunnie is it ?
19 It may be damp and windy in Bradford but we 're not complaining .
20 that er you 're not you know , take her back on a Sunday but you 're not picking her up on a Friday , I said she 's got a train pass make her come home
21 The best name we 've seen so far is that of former Hewlett-Packard Co chief John Young but it is not likely that he would want the job .
22 forty pound off something and er course then Doreen gets on to the subject of Des again and all these people that do n't pay cos apparently somewhere , and I she said Portsmouth but I 'm not I ca n't really remember what she said
23 The tone is distinctly altered from that in the earlier passage on the grace in Christ but it is not unaffected by it : and the formal Latin prayer which concludes the section is followed by one for grace to feel the love of God , addressed
24 Well he says to Raymond but it 's not as if .
25 They sobered up at the graveside in anticipation of the encounter of Jennie and Mary but it was not as hostile as they expected .
26 Had Prince Charles been an innocent party in the breakdown of his marriage , he could still have gone on to take not only the throne but the leadership of the C of E. But he is not .
27 ‘ That little bugger , ’ said Georgiades , ‘ may be most places in Cairo but he 's not everywhere .
28 Well I 've got one of France but I 'm not sure what scale it is .
29 Oh well i somewhere ne I thought it were Scunthorpe but it 's not Scunthorpe it 's Newark it 's up
30 No , it 's referred to and Aeneid but it 's not actually what happened to the city .
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