Example sentences of "but [pron] is not [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mutter something and start to clear the dishes , but she is not going to be brushed aside , so Darius crouches at the table with his chin on his hands , watching us like we 're Punch and Judy , and I admit that someone might come . |
| 2 | He is not doing badly enough to find another nominee through a brokered convention , but he is not doing well enough to please a majority even within his own party . |
| 3 | The researcher who cautiously confines his conclusions to those strictly justified by the data may be safe from criticism , but he is not making his own full potential contribution . |
| 4 | He is in the living room , but he is not going out with you . ’ |
| 5 | But he is not letting any secrets slip before the big day . |
| 6 | ‘ But he is not rushing himself . |
| 7 | Ultimately he believes that harmonisation of duty within the European Community must happen , but he is not sitting on the edge of his seat waiting for it : ‘ Politically we understand that uniform EC excise duty will not happen overnight , but alcohol is alcohol and we should be taxing alcohol volume and not the form that it comes in . ’ |
| 8 | The best evidence for the existence of a black hole is the presence within the cluster of a unique radio source , Sgr A , but it is not compelling . |
| 9 | But it is not helping the snail 's genes . |
| 10 | But it is not radiating its energy at visible wavelengths like previous contenders for the title , all of which were quasars ( quasi-stellar objects ) . |
| 11 | ‘ But it is not affecting me to have to do the job I have been given . |
| 12 | In conversation about this family it may be perfectly understandable to say that ‘ one of Keith 's problems is that he is so aggressive ’ but it is not defining the problem from the viewpoint of intervention . |
| 13 | It is always possible to be kinder to the earth , but it is not saving clumps of trees from the bulldozers which will matter in the next century . |
| 14 | But it is not working like that . |
| 15 | It is possible to have a system in which ‘ workload related budgets concerning financial and manpower allocations , etc but it is not going to be ‘ unsophisticated ’ . |
| 16 | The power of scientists and their masters may sometimes be sinister , but it is not going to be effectively redistributed through an ill considered and superficial programme like the one outlined in Partial Progress . |
| 17 | All server versions of CICS should give programmers the same familiar application development environment and rich set of programming interfaces to hide the underlying machine and network — it 's easy to see why this will aid downsizing , but it is not going to do much for IBM 's hardware sales . |