Example sentences of "but he [is] [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , if an employee writes a computer program to help with his work but he is not employed as a computer programmer , his job is not to write computer programs and an employer can not necessarily assume that he owns the copyright in that particular program . |
| 2 | Police said they had not yet been able to identify the man but he is not believed to be local . |
| 3 | He is not doing badly enough to find another nominee through a brokered convention , but he is not doing well enough to please a majority even within his own party . |
| 4 | The researcher who cautiously confines his conclusions to those strictly justified by the data may be safe from criticism , but he is not making his own full potential contribution . |
| 5 | I suppose so , Rajiv , I suppose so , but he is not to come to the briefing . |
| 6 | He is in the living room , but he is not going out with you . ’ |
| 7 | But he is not letting any secrets slip before the big day . |
| 8 | Mr Patten left his hospital bed for last week 's crucial Commons ' votes , but he is not expected to return to the Department of Education , until the end of next month . |
| 9 | Thus the male is required to identify with other males but he is not allowed to desire them ; indeed , identification with should actually preclude desire for . |
| 10 | ‘ But he is not rushing himself . |
| 11 | Now Mr Kronquist may be a very clever man , but he is not permitted , either , to suspend the physical laws of the Universe . |
| 12 | Ultimately he believes that harmonisation of duty within the European Community must happen , but he is not sitting on the edge of his seat waiting for it : ‘ Politically we understand that uniform EC excise duty will not happen overnight , but alcohol is alcohol and we should be taxing alcohol volume and not the form that it comes in . ’ |
| 13 | In 1990 Baron Thyssen bought an outstanding work , ‘ The Lock ’ at Sotheby 's for £10,780,000 a world record for a British painting but he is not considered a likely purchaser of further works by the artist . |
| 14 | I am shouting into his face but he is n't listening . |
| 15 | I think he 's done it , I think he 's across the river and safe and there 's a buzzy glow of vicarious accomplishment starting to well up within me , but then there 's a cracking noise and he falls ; I think he 's tripped and fallen forward but he is n't lying flat on the snow , he 's sunk up to his waist in it and there 's a pool of darkness spreading on the whiteness around him as he struggles , trying to lever himself out and I ca n't believe this is happening , ca n't believe Andy is n't going to jump free ; I 'm yelling in fear now , shouting his name , screaming out to him . |
| 16 | But he is n't responding to treatment . ’ |
| 17 | But he is n't going to become leader . |
| 18 | " Yes , but he is n't going up it , " I replied sourly . |
| 19 | ‘ But he 's not looking at me , ’ Anna thought . |
| 20 | Keith has to get up for school in the morning , but he 's not thinking about that at the minute . |
| 21 | Well , he 's not , but he 's not causing any difficulty just at the moment . |
| 22 | But he 's not comparing ? |
| 23 | I mean — no surprise , but he 's not registered as Charles Singer . ’ |
| 24 | But he 's , but he 's not geared up to do it . |
| 25 | But he 's not doing the estimates he 's been given and he ca n't afford to throw money away . |
| 26 | We thoroughly enjoy Dogs Today and try to pass on all the right things to do to our present scallywag , Monty , but he 's not impressed . |
| 27 | when I read that , you know , this is perhaps a wrong s feeling of to express but yo The lord the God created the world but he 's not meaning it in that respect is he ? |
| 28 | I like the idea of the sort of archways looking out to the right letting light sort of fall in and it , and make a nice pool of light ideal for somebody who 's standing , but he 's not standing in quite the right place . |
| 29 | ‘ But he 's not saying . ’ |
| 30 | But he 's not saying that to anyone else . |