Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adj] but [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in fact the coffee rooms not only were not profitable but I think at one time were even subsidized by the directors ' own pocket which just how balmy some people can be . |
| 2 | Peter 's commitment is certainly not total but I think his interest can be maintained if we do n't frighten him . |
| 3 | We did n't go to the funeral , but me cousin Dora who was Aunt Lucy 's daughter , she got there was er Walter , , Walter and Leonard were in a pram and me cousin Dora went down Lane and wh to the corner of Street and watched the funeral go past up to I 've got vague memories of that they 're not clear but I do know that he took us to watch me dad 's funeral past the corner of Street and I presume that now that it must have gone up Street up to Street street , cos he 's buried at Ryecroft . |
| 4 | large , not generous but I think good grief poor Christopher 's sitting there . |
| 5 | ‘ They say they 're not interested but they send in helicopters and troops to take measurements . ’ |
| 6 | Data on admission to hospital is not comprehensive but they suggest that admission rates rise with declining social class . |
| 7 | It was not easy but I think it is for the best , in the long run . |
| 8 | It is not perfect but I have no time to edit it further . |
| 9 | Associate species are those which are not constant but which occur throughout the community with a frequency of 60% or less , and which do not favour any particular sub-community . |
| 10 | The public facade of the mass ceremony and the individual uniform concealed the blemishes , organizational and material , to which civilians were not privy but which bore heavily on the ordinary constable . |
| 11 | I 'm not comfortable but I suppose if I gave it a go I would get used to it . |
| 12 | not sure but I think one of the things is |
| 13 | I 'm not sure but I think it has . |
| 14 | I 'm not sure but I think it was Mrs Turner . |
| 15 | I think it mi , might have been Radio Stoke , I 'm not sure but I think it |
| 16 | no tail oh dear oh dear but you see then of course and I was still not married but you see I , as I say , then I went to Cambridge and that 's when I met my husband and all his family were so kind to me , er he had erm two sisters living in a flat round the backs , you 've heard of round the backs |
| 17 | I 'm not brilliant but I have only to be shown once . |
| 18 | I have my doubts but Morgan maintained : ‘ It 's not insurmountable but we have to work very hard . ’ |
| 19 | Not skilled but we do have our dignity |
| 20 | It 's not bad but he do n't use them till they 've run out he just uses them and leaves them laying about and come and takes some more . |
| 21 | and it was dark green oh it it 's not bad but you know I 'd just lost ten pounds to the taxi driver to him giving me the wrong change so I was feeling in a very frugal mood an and this the green of this candlestick holder you know what I call the old fashioned dark green , of some china ? |
| 22 | Speaking for himself , Svidrigailov says he is after the women , which is n't untrue but we know what it 's worth . |