Example sentences of "not be [adv] [verb] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , until the coming of oil the planning regulations had not been rigorously implemented but with the transition to Island Authority status and the creation of the Structure Plan the planners sought to justify their existence . |
| 2 | The long term sequelae of infection on acid secretion have not been well defined but epidemiological evidence suggests that longstanding H pylori infection may result in a reduction of acid secretion through the development of atrophic changes in the gastric mucosa . |
| 3 | The Board claimed that a ballot on industrial action had not been validly conducted but the High Court judge said the evidence for this ‘ did not come anywhere near justifying injunctive relief ’ . |
| 4 | A number of hazards were revealed which had not been specifically predicted but which needed to be taken into account in designing the main research project . |
| 5 | This is a prodigiously deep fissure or cave system in the mass if which has still not been fully explored but which by 1979 had been traced by speleologists to a depth of 4,400 feet . |
| 6 | The role of the head has not been ostensibly diminished but , in the words of Maclure ( 1988:140 — 1 ) : there is scope for an over-zealous governing body to get at cross-purposes with an over-zealous head . |
| 7 | The number of pregnancies that do not produce a viable infant but end in miscarriage , induced abortion or stillbirth or , of those that result in a live born baby with serious health impairment , can not be reliably assessed but it may be put at a much larger figure . |
| 8 | Most of the final parts of this story can not be independently verified but events appear to have run as follows . |
| 9 | As the documents make clear , many of these so-called inspectors will not be educationally qualified but will be drawn , in the senior chief inspector 's words , from the top of the Clapham omnibus . |
| 10 | All groups are invited to send resolution which may or may not be actually debated but erm , we , we do n't normally send one in , but some , some groups they send them in , no , no one 's thinking |
| 11 | SIR , — In your April 24 editorial you state that the risk for patients exposed to an HIV-infected healthcare worker ( HCW ) can not be accurately calculated but must be small . |