Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] but [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French police said the number they had called did not exist but in fact it was a special number allocated to the DGSE . |
| 2 | Like the pain , it ‘ can not exist but in a mind perceiving it . ’ |
| 3 | My primary target was the heat-pain argument , and its conclusion : that heat , like pain , ‘ can not exist but in a mind perceiving it ’ . |
| 4 | It is a post that Mr Havel did not seek but for which he was the only serious candidate . |
| 5 | Melissa touched her arm ; still she did not move but as if a tap had been opened , tears spilt from her eyes and began streaming down her face . |
| 6 | What one can not demand but from oneself . |
| 7 | What one can not demand but from oneself . |
| 8 | Such exchanges take place not because people need to obtain what they do not produce but in order to demonstrate and maintain social links , often of an egalitarian kind . |
| 9 | Moreover , as the breakdown of the SALT II agreement shows , whatever the success of arms limitation , it does not overcome but in many ways merely highlights the problems of arms reduction ( Jacobson , 1984 ) . |
| 10 | She could not help but like him . |
| 11 | Luther Reynolds ridiculed David in front of her , belittling him in such a way as to destroy any respect she might have had for her husband ; although she could not help but like him a little . |
| 12 | Here there are evident overlaps with political theory and with general sociology , which cultural sociology can not replace but to which it can try to contribute its own kinds of evidence . |
| 13 | Here there are again overlaps with political theory and with general sociology , which cultural sociology can not replace but to which it can try to contribute its distinctive emphasis on the organization of signifying systems and on the special kinds of social formation which are professionally concerned with this , among them the difficult category usually identified as ‘ intellectuals ’ . |
| 14 | The virtues of this procedure , which does n't lengthen but in fact shortens your investigation , are as follows : ( a ) The actual investigation is simplified , as you do n't have to keep turning back an unwieldy abstract to see which documents contained restrictions , whether the seller named in one conveyance was the buyer named in the previous deed , etc . |
| 15 | I do n't know but to be truthful I am not hundred percent sold on any of it . |
| 16 | and they sort of met and how they did n't hit I do n't know but at the moment it 's , well get the car back today it 's er been away being done , cos somebody smashed into him |
| 17 | No I do n't know but on Saturday it 's gon na be all like li little couples . |
| 18 | So it 's , it 's small things like that which although on their own , as we did n't recycle but for all those people who bought cards and the people they send them to are , are now aware , that they need to create a market . |
| 19 | I do n't iron but at least it 's done . |
| 20 | And and really I mean you ca n't I 'm I 'm s I 'm saying that you , you ca n't interfere but by god I 'd long for someone to come in and interfere . |
| 21 | He liked her , you could n't help but like her , but he wished in this moment it was in him to more than like her . |
| 22 | I could n't help but like her . ’ |
| 23 | To the extent that the amateur stuff loosens things up a bit , it ca n't help but in some sense be positive . ’ |