Example sentences of "but she [be] not [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she 's not daft . |
| 2 | not from Leeds , but she 's not far away from Le from Leeds so erm it 's it wo n't be so strange to her . |
| 3 | ‘ A message for one of us but she 's not sure which . |
| 4 | ‘ She 's interested , but she 's not surprised . |
| 5 | But she 's not hungry ! |
| 6 | Actually , me and Joe were saying the other day , like ever erm who was it , someone said something about people being fat or whatever and someone 's gone , oh yeah , like Helena , you know jokingly and erm and me and Joe both turned round and said yeah but she 's not fat though is she , she 's like more you 're more wide are n't you ? |
| 7 | She may be virtuous , but she is not capable of defending civilisation against its attackers . |
| 8 | PRINCESS Diana may be beautiful but she is not perfect , says top make-up artist Clayton Howard . |
| 9 | The statue at the Old Bailey may not be able to speak , but she is not dumb . |
| 10 | She is nasal , but she is not loud . |
| 11 | ‘ Margaret , who has one shop , may be a little bit large but she is not ugly , neither is Jean , who has the other . |
| 12 | Jane Henderson , who initiated the arts projects at West Middlesex University Hospital and has been working in Hospitals since 1986 , is committed to the community aspect of her work , but she is not blind to the costs of her own creativity . |
| 13 | In an interview he recalled that Kylie was great fun to be with but she was not keen on spending too much time at parties or discos . |
| 14 | Constance had lost Ludo — something she had been dreading on the journey up from Florence — but she was not alarmed . |
| 15 | Anne knew that Nina had stabbed Clive , but she was not sure whether she had doped him as well . |
| 16 | She remembered the needle going into flesh , but she was not sure that it had been her own . |
| 17 | Robert Urquhart did know more than he pretended , Blanche was convinced , but she was not convinced about the thoroughness of his investigation into Mills ' murder . |
| 18 | Her thoughts drifted , but she was not asleep . |
| 19 | But she was not certain . |
| 20 | Fräulein Müller might be blatant , but she was not easy to resist . |
| 21 | ' ’ But she was not pleased . ’ |
| 22 | When she got back to the college , she went to the library and looked once more at all the reference books pertaining to Sebastian Denham , in the hope of finding the nature of his wife 's professional distinctions , but she was not successful . |
| 23 | She also wrote novels about passion , adultery , and death in civilised societies , but she was not interested in psychological drama . |
| 24 | She wrote historical novels about Mexico and Quebec , but she was not interested in the drama of conquest or religious conversion . |
| 25 | But she was not interested in any case . |
| 26 | She would have rushed forward to knock the gun aside , but she was not fast enough . |
| 27 | But she was not austere : she had a sense of fun , and was a woman of wide culture , at home in several European countries and the USA . |
| 28 | But she was not cold now . |
| 29 | She was transferred from home to a private rehabilitation centre , but she was not happy there because she had little privacy , and her family could not travel to see her every day . |
| 30 | She whirled round but she was not frightened and I glimpsed the sparkle of triumph in her eyes . |