Example sentences of "not [adv] [adj] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Cohen Committee admitted that these complaints were not altogether unfounded but all that has resulted is section 192 of the Act which invalidates provisions in trust deeds ( or elsewhere ) which purport to exempt a trustee from , or to indemnify him against , ‘ liability for breach of trust where he fails to show the degree of care and diligence required of him as a trustee having regard to the provisions of the trust deed conferring on him any powers , authorities or discretions . ’ |
| 2 | There are minorities in almost every republic — that is not wholly true but it is almost true . |
| 3 | Lord Cross accepted that the " significant proportion " test was the standard which the justices were required to apply , but stressed that " a significant proportion of a class means a part which is not numerically negligible but which may be much less than half . " |
| 4 | As with all the other special effects of camp environment , those produced by sex starvation were not organically different but merely the ordinary trends aggravated and emphasized . |
| 5 | Supposing the tumour in my lungs was not entirely new but had started five months ago , before I went onto my diet , took my vitamins or began my visualizations ? |
| 6 | At some point during the fifties the press coined a phrase , not entirely new but then fashionable , for any actor who emulated the lifestyle of Errol Flynn , if only in part . |
| 7 | The evidence for the next higher stage is not entirely absent but , in this case , it is indirect . |
| 8 | True , local business is not entirely absent but on the whole , foreign operators have been the first to benefit . |
| 9 | The exact mechanisms of these effects are not entirely clear but are probably multifactorial and related to changes in improved diabetic control , dietary fat intake , and weight reduction . |
| 10 | The increase of strength with thinness was not entirely smooth but showed a certain amount of scatter or variability . |
| 11 | Once more , such a situation is not necessarily incestuous but since love and sexual partnership are so often a matter of emotional dependence it is often hard to differentiate it from a quasi-marital partnership . |
| 12 | They are not necessarily extravagant but devote themselves to appearance as to a very demanding goddess whose exigencies may account for that well-kempt , bad tempered look most of them adopt . |
| 13 | A school that is taking marketing seriously will look to appoint ‘ people persons ’ , individuals that are not necessarily charismatic but who show a strong concern for others . |
| 14 | [ 11 ] Turning from the laboratory to real life , there is a widely believed myth that battle injuries are not necessarily painful but that injury is always painful in ordinary circumstances . |
| 15 | It 's not especially awful but lacks any real bite or hookline — and therefore looks like a sinker . |
| 16 | It 's not especially awful but lacks any real bite or hookline — and therefore looks like a sinker . |
| 17 | It begins strong , and louder than a sick person could make ; the second cry is lower , but not less doleful but rather more so ; the third yet lower , and soft , like the groan of a sick man almost spent and dying . |
| 18 | It was not perhaps natural but it had served him well , Nicholas knew , from the beginning . |
| 19 | He was a big man , not So tall but heavy , with kind of reddish-brown hair-what was left of it-and a finely-kept half-moon beard on his chin . |
| 20 | When we were drawn against both England and Holland , people were not so sure but after the European Championship finals , those fears have gone . ’ |
| 21 | Overleaf Not so famous but also spectacular : Bryce Canyon in Utah . |
| 22 | He had a bit of a chip on his shoulder because he felt that other people who were not so good but who had the right background and connections had gotten ahead of him . |
| 23 | ‘ Not so much but it 's nice to see a good match . ’ |
| 24 | If we choose to use our resources in the most efficient place at the moment we may avoid those areas which are not so efficient but which will be more valuable in the future . |
| 25 | My next trip was not so pleasant but nonetheless enlightening , It was with a scratch crew and an experienced navigator who , like myself , had returned to ops after a period in the training world , but also ( like myself ) utterly clueless about present day operations . |
| 26 | This is not so authentic but the green beans give an attractive appearance to the dish . |
| 27 | Taller , stronger , not so blonde but much more decisive than their mother , she still seemed perpetually astonished by life . |
| 28 | In summer it is not so dense but that I can find the blackbird wherever it sings among its branches and not in Winter so agile but that its changing patterns are conspicuous against the sky , its sound an appreciable susurration using the harp strings of the wind . |
| 29 | Dacourt watched Benjamin attentively , his eyes now not so bulbous but cunning and shrewd . |
| 30 | Pupil leakage is n't about those puddles occasionally found under infant children it 's about losing children to neighbours — it 's not so wet but equally unpleasant . |