Example sentences of "but it is not [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Court of Protection exists to defend elderly or mentally incapacitated people , but it is not widely known . |
| 2 | Not only does the site not have planning permission for office development but it is not even zoned for this use and would thus require a material contravention order or a Section 4 motion by the City fathers to allow any big office development here . |
| 3 | But it is not just trying to get the recipient to learn the ad by rote : it is , surely , trying to give information — persuasive information — about the product , so that the consumer will prefer it to its competitors and buy it . |
| 4 | But it is not just played for easy excitement : this is alarming because it is so near the edge of what is possible , and yet it has just enough in reserve for tremendous final prestissimo . |
| 5 | Energy has many forms — heat , electrical energy , mechanical energy , strain energy and so on — but it is not immediately clear that the surface of a solid has energy , merely by virtue of its existence as a surface . |
| 6 | But it is not altogether clear what part dietary habits play . |
| 7 | But it is not wholly clear that the problem has disappeared . |
| 8 | The Duke has initiated an important debate , but it is not yet concluded . |
| 9 | The Duke has initiated an important debate , but it is not yet concluded . |
| 10 | As a general strategy , this is fine , but it is not yet broken down far enough to be useful . |
| 11 | Rulings made by the European Court of Justice now mean that pension schemes run by employers should not discriminate between men and women on grounds of age , but it is not yet clear what the consequences of these rulings will be . |
| 12 | A number of explanations for these results are available , but it is not yet clear which explanations are correct . |
| 13 | But it is not yet clear what new job opportunities the development will mean . |
| 14 | There will be a period where the individual is affected by the condition , but it is not yet suffering . |
| 15 | Venice is in peril , but it is not yet doomed . |
| 16 | The sky is already a clear , broad blue but it is not yet warm enough to tempt the thin mist from the fields and hedges . |
| 17 | But it is not yet known whether the teenager is returning to her mother or remaining with her 18-year-old boyfriend 's family . |
| 18 | Its site was evidently occupied beforehand — the outer walls near the main entrance in the eastern corner extend across the remains of earlier houses — but it is not yet known whether a temple stood there . |
| 19 | Directives are based on Roman law whereby absolute duties are set out in the law but it is not vigorously enforced . |
| 20 | ‘ But it is not automatically invalidated ? ’ interrupted Benedict anxiously . |
| 21 | Certainly , the middle-brow approach to the consumer marketing campaign throws a certain light on the productions , but it is not necessarily reflected in the character of the shows themselves . |
| 22 | Britain is an island , but it is not culturally isolated . |
| 23 | The OSF/1 Unix will also aim for high security ( B-1 level ) , but it is not now expected to appear before November 1990 . |
| 24 | If that is the case why is it that the order relating to insurance and building society er building societies , specifically makes the point that the auditor must be working erm in his capacity as such whereas the orders on banking and financial services er it may be implicit the er the auditor is working er in his or her capacity as such er but it is not explicitly stated because the phraseology is different . |
| 25 | The Islamic movement in Jordan opposes the peace talks with Israel , but it is not actively opposing regional peace negotiations . |
| 26 | But it is not always seen in this way . |
| 27 | But it is not always going to be the most economic route . |
| 28 | A back fist will out-range a reverse punch performed by an opponent of equal height but it is not often scored because many referees do not consider it powerful enough . |
| 29 | Clearly , stress has linguistic importance and is therefore an aspect of the phonology of English that must be described , but it is not usually regarded as something that is related to individual segmental phonemes ; normally , stress is said to be something that is applied to ( or is a property of ) syllables , and is therefore part of the suprasegmental phonology of English . |
| 30 | It clearly might apply to the poet 's relationship , but it is not specifically said to . |