Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] but [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Report observes : ‘ It is now 25 years since Mitbestimmung ( Co-determination ) was introduced in the Federal Republic of Germany ’ ; and again : ‘ As long ago as 1972 the EEC published draft proposals for a Fifth Directive on Company law , proposing employee representation on the supervisory boards of all companies in the Community with over 500 employees ’ — a rhetorical presentation that pictures the United Kingdom as dragging its reluctant feet well in the rear of a party marching briskly along the path towards a bright new future entrusted not wholly but largely to trade unions . |
| 2 | I arrived early , not intentionally but definitely to be recommended . |
| 3 | ‘ Architects/Engineers RMJM have been flying high recently , rubbing shoulders with royalty , not once but twice within a week . |
| 4 | ‘ And you are blind , Fernando Serra , not totally but enough to be choosy about what you do see . |
| 5 | There was , he added , a danger that exclusions might come about not deliberately but simply through inertia or administrative error . |
| 6 | If the law is to be changed by the reversal of West 's case , it should be done not judicially but legislatively within the context of a comprehensive enactment dealing with all aspects of damages for personal injury . |