Example sentences of "but not [adv] [vb base] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The solar conditions but not yesterday count as causal circumstance for last night . |
| 2 | It was a sight worth dwelling on , but not much use for present purposes . |
| 3 | It is all standard royal stuff , but not much help to the millions who fear that Hong Kong will not remain open after 1997 . |
| 4 | Now you could just vote for m motion three eight eight , and to which would say that delegates from the T U the trades councils could go to Congress , but not actually speak on any motions or you could vote for three eight eight and three eight eight and three eight nine , which of course , I 'd like you to do . |
| 5 | Finally retrieval is a separate process because of another familiar phenomenon that it is possible to know something , that is it must be in storage , but not actually succeed in retrieving it at a particular time . |