Example sentences of "but [not/n't] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Otherwise the Legacy is a decent but not notably quiet cruiser ; significant engine , wind and tyre noise are all there . |
| 2 | They must , of course , take calculated risks from time to time to achieve objectives which they perceive to be right but not universally popular . |
| 3 | This is commonplace enough but not theoretically interesting . |
| 4 | ‘ But not completely insane . |
| 5 | But not completely different , an inner voice amended doggedly . |
| 6 | The church again seemed very quiet , but not completely empty . |
| 7 | Since the car will be ‘ still intrinsically an Aston , but not completely coach-built ’ , it will also have to acquire relatively speaking , mass-production skills . |
| 8 | A useful but not completely reliable indicator of potency . |
| 9 | It has been shown that measuring these antibodies to establish the diagnosis of coeliac disease is helpful but not completely reliable as a few cases would be missed . |
| 10 | Right in the lead , where the air was stale but not otherwise malodorous . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm bound to my partnership , ’ she told him quietly , inwardly struggling for every word of explanation but not even sure what she was trying to explain . |
| 12 | This was a system in which , not only were members of one 's own generation the only legitimate sexual partners , but not even all of these , since people who were descendants of the same ancestors would not marry . |
| 13 | But not even next year when he goes to school ? |
| 14 | But what is true , I suggest , short of the occasional religious conversion or metamorphosis of lifestyle , is that the variety of circumstances make our decisions often unpredictable , but not thereby whimsical , to the extent that we often surprise ourselves . |
| 15 | Dot-matrix printers , such as those used with popular makes of personal computer , and line-printers ( which are normally used with larger , usually centralized , computers ) can be used to generate cheap , but not particularly accurate , maps and diagrams . |
| 16 | Foley 's voice was soft and mild , but not particularly friendly . |
| 17 | Wine , too , was highly priced but not particularly rare . |
| 18 | The idea was to give them food that was nourishing but not particularly appetizing . |
| 19 | This must be an ideal situation for you actually cos we 're being , we 're sitting here being recorded and being watched so we 're used to that sort of thing but not particularly conscious of it |
| 20 | The adoral shields are small slightly convex but not particularly wing-like , and restricted to the proximal edges of the oral shield , not separating it from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 21 | He had noticed Ianthe coming out of her house and now saw her as a woman of about his own age , nicely dressed , worthy no doubt , quite pretty but not particularly interesting . |
| 22 | These were heavy family pressures but not particularly unusual nor sufficient , in my opinion , to overset and bear down the will of Mrs. O'Brien . |
| 23 | Rather than buying fewer pictures of greater quality , Croce has squandered his considerable funds in speculations , favouring the ‘ bargains ’ , i.e. the mis-catalogued ‘ workshop ’ pictures that would ( hopefully ) improve dramatically with cleaning , or pictures that were authentic , but not particularly fine or interesting . |
| 24 | But not just that . ’ |
| 25 | is a European city , but not just that , is a city that leads in Europe . |
| 26 | A university is a place where there is research , teaching and learning ; but not just any research , any teaching and any learning . |
| 27 | Based on these findings Dicke concluded in 1950 in his thesis that wheat flour but not well purified wheat starch ( amylum ) and also rye flour were the causes of the anorexia , the increased faecal output , and the streatorrhoea seen in these patients . |
| 28 | The Chinese , for their part , needed reliable intelligence on conditions in Vietnam — some genuine Vietnamese support , too , if they could get it — but not simply that which was promised by émigrés who had lived in China for years and who had little or no contact with or contemporary knowledge of Vietnam . |
| 29 | It was into this unresolved but not unsatisfactorily balanced situation that film was introduced , and was immediately identified as something new . |
| 30 | Eighteenth-century politics have long had an unsavoury reputation , and although in the case of Scotland much of that reputation can be traced to the persuasive , but not strictly accurate , writings of Henry Cockburn and other Whig reformers of the early nineteenth century , it must be conceded at the outset that there is something to be said for the received account . |