Example sentences of "but [not/n't] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | But not after it was sold . ’ |
| 2 | Yeah but not but it 's not for school it 's for some people outside school , it 's a sort of |
| 3 | One can say that the whole material universe has a certain colour , but not that it has a certain position . |
| 4 | Similarly , one can say that a bodily sensation has the intrinsic quality of being a tingle , or is hall-marked ‘ tingling ’ , but not that it has an in-the-foot quality . ) |
| 5 | One would think ( as I think ) that this story has served as a vehicle through which people expressed their love of God , but not that it is true . |
| 6 | ‘ But not that it should be me who made it so . |
| 7 | Consequently the June ‘ xuechao ’ was contained , but not before it had seriously worried the leadership and the students had made a number of important points which would resurface less than a year later . |
| 8 | The once-great Computer Systems News , which had to suffer the indignity in its declining months of being called Systems and Network Integration , gives up the ghost this week but not before it reports that IBM will turn up at AutoFacts in November with a new-fangled massively parallel machine that runs both AIX/ES and MVS and is based on a new ( possibly hybrid ) chip developed at the Thomas Watson Lab . |
| 9 | In Spain it was distorted and cut short by the crisis of 1789 and the French invasion of 1808 , but not before it had modified , if not the traditional structure of society , at least the traditional attitudes . |
| 10 | Experiments show that when words or letters are presented very briefly , subjects are in fact sometimes able to report what letter or word they have seen but not whether it was upper or lowercase ( Coltheart and Freeman , 1974 ; McClelland , 1976 ; Adams , 1979 ; Friedman , 1980 ) . |
| 11 | ‘ Elonex supplies this sort of thing , ’ says Mr Spiro , ‘ but not because it 's a big revenue earner . |
| 12 | She thought briefly of AIDS and added : ‘ For one thing , they 've learnt that it is n't very wise … but not because it 's immoral , Johnny . |
| 13 | One of the tragedies to that it has now become so expensive but is very difficult but not because it was sponsored but somebody told me the other night that the Billy Connolly programme excuse me Billy Connolly programme about art and culture was |
| 14 | SHERRY ( Box ) : Sherry is ideal with Christmas fare- but not when it 's warm and sickly sweet . |
| 15 | You might expect air conditioning , leather seats and at least a stereo when you pay over £50,000 for a car , but not if it 's a Mercedes you 're buying . |
| 16 | Television is fine provided you are selective in your viewing , but not If it is on all the time . |
| 17 | Presumably you 'd find that ethically acceptable if the abortion were natural or legal but not if it were induced for the purpose of providing the tissue . |
| 18 | However , it is apparently the practice that if the prisoner inquires in such a case whether the tariff has been set at 20 years , he will be told if it has been set at that period , but not if it has not . |
| 19 | In a block of premises each tenant can normally be regarded as consenting to the presence of water on the premises if the supply is of the usual character , but not if it is of quite an unusual kind , or defective or dangerous , unless he actually knows of that . |
| 20 | The boxes inside the vault looked fascinating and she badly wanted to know what lay inside box number forty-seven , but not if it meant going into the sinister little room on her own . |
| 21 | Most members of the Arab League would welcome a Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon , but not if it means an inter-Arab war . |
| 22 | Public-sector borrowing ( item 1 ) will lead to a direct increase in the money supply , but not if it is funded by selling bonds and bills to the non-bank private sector . |
| 23 | The , another point is that that having raised the hopes of the housing associations the council is now actually trying to close a door that that we ourselves opened and this is tantamount to paying lip service to the health and the housing associations , yes , we 'll support you but not if it means that we have to sell you our houses . |
| 24 | The Ministry of Defence says : ’ Bomb disposal experts clear former military land for building but not if it 's used for agriculture . |
| 25 | And after scoring the derby winner against Everton in March , Rosy said : ‘ I 'd like to stay at Liverpool but not if it means another season on the bench . ’ |
| 26 | But not if it , but people |
| 27 | Said John Thompson , IBM vice-president and Application Business Systems general manager , ‘ We will implement RISC [ on the AS/400 ] , but not until it catches up with the AS/400 architecture , which we think is more advanced … and until we can do it in a way that wo n't disrupt the customer 's applications . ’ |
| 28 | He spoke the truth but not until it had been subjected to the most stringent test — himself ! |