Example sentences of "but [noun sg] is not [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But utilitarianism is not enough to sustain woman-centred feminism 's more dramatic ambitions . |
| 2 | ‘ I am very sorry , sir , but assistance is not immediately available at this precise moment . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ But equipment is not really important to me . |
| 4 | But difference is not enough to trigger separatism . |
| 5 | But poverty is not evenly distributed among older people , and gender is one of the clearest lines along which the economic and social experience of old age is divided . |
| 6 | But capitalism is not only unjust it is inhuman : it enables the owners of capital to treat labour and human work as a commodity , which produces ‘ alienation ’ . |
| 7 | But life is not just work . |
| 8 | But life is not that simple . |
| 9 | But congress is not easily brought to order , it is a legislature with teeth and a fractured distribution of power well capable of preventing a president from governing . |
| 10 | There will be anarchical aspects of organizations , but order is not completely absent . |
| 11 | The recession has led only to a ‘ period of consolidation ’ — in Tony 's words — but expansion is not too far away . |
| 12 | There are always any number of questions which could be asked in a survey because they seem ‘ interesting ’ ; but interest is not enough . |
| 13 | But merger is not always tantamount to takeover . |
| 14 | It is not any sense over-engineered in the manner of some US made exotica that has crossed my path , but over-engineering is not necessarily good engineering — it can be more correctly seen as wasteful engineering — it can be more correctly seen as wasteful engineering , which is a quite different thing . |