Example sentences of "but it [verb] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been a mere moment of whiteness seen out of the corner of her eye but it had not moved purposefully like a horse does with a rider . |
| 2 | Mr Jeremy Cole , a teacher at Latimer School , Kettering , Northants , said three pupils last year had ‘ slavishly copied ’ a piece of maths coursework from another boy , but it had not affected their grades . |
| 3 | The laughter had been absent for a while , but it had not withdrawn far from him , the marks of its permanent habitation were still there . |
| 4 | He said the brakes were worn but it had not contributed to the tragedy . |
| 5 | Every muscle in his body had ached as if stretched to its limit , but it had not made a scrap of difference to his height . |
| 6 | ‘ But it had not gone near the body ? ’ |
| 7 | Once , someone had thrown a piece of lighted paper in a bottle at the house but it had not gone through the window . |
| 8 | The Russian invasion of Hungary made Nicholas look like a firebrand , but it had not involved him in taking many risks . |
| 9 | The scenery was beautiful , but it had not entered into the soul of the people . |
| 10 | Acton and Shepherd 's Bush , he said , were a long way from Islington but it had not needed the history and memory of Risinghill and William Tyndale to make headteachers alert to the damaging way in which matters of discipline , race , criminality and parental disquiet could be brought together into presentations of hot and not always accurate news . |
| 11 | The war had , of course , done considerable damage to Spain 's productive capacity , but it had not occasioned total collapse . |
| 12 | In fact he was so impressed he agreed to make an allowance towards James 's student fees at St Bartholomew 's , but it had not stretched to comfortable accommodation . |
| 13 | Days before the explosions the water company had been told by local people of the strong smell of gas in the district , but it had not ordered an evacuation . |
| 14 | That day , by way of the radio popolo the news of the rastrellamento spread like wildfire , but it had not spread as far as Eric 's farm . |
| 15 | But it had not eluded Jack Stone , and he had thought that Stone was as prepared to pay his time in prison , in order know return to that normality , as Chrissie was to pay her time in waiting for him . |
| 16 | She had tried separating them to eat in different places but it had not worked as they tried to run around while eating . |
| 17 | They had drifted into a brief alliance now because she was out of work and he was at a loose end emotionally , but it had not worked . |
| 18 | There was , she admitted , some evidence , but it had not resolved the controversy over the existence of the paranormal . |
| 19 | Such confusion is largely a result of the difficulty many lawyers have when dealing with a highly technical field such as computer science but it does not stop there . |
| 20 | But it does not feel to them like real work and there is no financial reward and rarely any specific long-term achievable objectives which can be shared with others . |
| 21 | The use of a mode register reduces the number of operation codes required , but it does not eliminate the problem of an instruction being given operands of one format when it expects another format . |
| 22 | ‘ Ah , but it does not wind . |
| 23 | Education can equip people to fill these positions , but it does not control the expansion or contraction of the job market . |
| 24 | This may be temporarily quashing but it does not satisfy … |
| 25 | But it does not arrive in Salamanca until about one-thirty the next day . |
| 26 | This means that ideas can not be abstract , but it does not mean that they can not be general . |
| 27 | But it does not mean , ’ she said starchily , ‘ that one is totally without influence , or that propriety has been put in abeyance . |
| 28 | That is a pity , perhaps , but it does not mean that everyday language is bad ; it is imply the way of things that language is not alive unless it is vernacular , because the adornments and abbreviations are the adornments and abbreviations of human thought . |
| 29 | This criterion means that a great deal of fundamental science such as elementary particle physics or astronomy would not qualify for our support ; but it does not mean that we avoid contact with scientists working in these fields . |
| 30 | Man may be distinguished from the animal by his capacity for non-violence , but it does not mean that he has shed all vestiges of the animal in him . |