Example sentences of "but [that] it [be] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | To recognise where a reform is urgently required and must be effected at any cost , or where it may be postponed , or where it may be counted on to effect itself without outside influence , and , perhaps most important of all , to be able to recognise the fact that certain reforms would be beneficial could they be effected but that it is not possible to effect them at all ; to be able to arrive at a right decision on such points as these is what is chiefly required of a Resident . |
| 2 | We can see that age of acquisition may be taken as a predictive factor for current sign language training but that it is not a pure , uncontaminated variable . |
| 3 | It does not imply that the story is completely untrue , but that it is not literally true . |
| 4 | Chomsky ( 1975 ) expressed the view that sociolinguistics is a harmless activity like butterfly-collecting , but that it is not ‘ theoretical ’ . |
| 5 | The evidence at present therefore suggests that free enthalpy or free entropy would be better parameters to use than free volume , but that it is not possible to choose between them . |
| 6 | On the other hand , Creole use begins much earlier for some children ; Hewitt observes that there is less use of Creole in primary schools than in secondary schools , but that it is not absent altogether . |
| 7 | The trouble with that stuff is not that it 's bad , but that it 's not bad enough . |
| 8 | She said afterwards that she had never experienced anything like it , but that it was not unpleasant or fearful . |
| 9 | In a recent article in a Dutch newspaper ( NRC Handelsblad 25.3.92 ) , Keune was quoted as saying that the paint was ‘ an industrial product with good properties for objects which have to endure a lot of wear and tear , but that it was not something to be used in restorations . |
| 10 | of the directors must be its nationals , and ( b ) that the legal and beneficial owners , charterers , managers , operators , shareholders or directors must be resident and domiciled in the member state , but that it was not a breach of Community law for a member state to stipulate as a condition for the registration of a fishing vessel in its national register that the vessel must be managed and its operations directed and controlled from within the member state ( post , pp. 340H — 341B , E , 343B–D ) . |
| 11 | In the course of his opinion in Maitland , the Lord President ( Clyde ) observed that the nobile officium should be exercised where a formal step had been per incuriam , omitted , and unnecessary delay and expenditure would result if the whole procedure had to be carried out again ; but that it was not to be used as a cloak for incompetence to extend a statutory remedy to a party who had not been given such a remedy , or , by consent of parties , to supplement statutory procedure by what would be an amendment of a statute . |
| 12 | The Court of Appeal rejected the Council 's defence on the ground , not that the ticket changed hands too late , but that it was not a contractual document ; for no reasonable person would expect to find contractual terms in a document which was no more than a receipt for him to prove that he had paid and which in many instances ( i.e. in the absence of the attendant ) would not change hands until long after the contract was made . |