Example sentences of "but [pron] is not " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ There is no doubt that they have to consider the possibility of closing the fund , but his is not what they want to do . |
| 2 | This is similar to ‘ Futility ’ in the sense that Owen uses personal experience to get his message across but his is not so much about the pointlessness of war in general but is more focused on the individual soldier and the difference between death on the battlefield and death in your own town . |
| 3 | Now , as far as the Catholics are concerned , I have to say I like the people very much but theirs is not a faith I could accept myself . |
| 4 | Should Amis 's friendship with Larkin — which goes unstated in Amis 's fiction , but which is not absent from it — matter to the reader of that fiction ? |
| 5 | No doubt you can think of various acts which are crimes in this country but not in other countries ; and of behaviour which is against the criminal law of other societies but which is not criminal in Britain . |
| 6 | This would replace the present Lord Chancellor 's Department which administers a very substantial budget , but which is not directly accountable to the House of Commons . |
| 7 | Your conception of pains which are not yours is not a conception of something which is like your pain , since it hurts , but which is not one of yours . |
| 8 | A significant variance could be defined as one amounting to more than a given percentage of the budget but which is not explained by the general level of prices , i.e. inflation or deflation . |
| 9 | However , there are other less ambitious examples of the kind of information which the accounts could provide about inputs but which is not provided by cash flow accounting . |
| 10 | Different individuals work at different speeds — you are more likely to achieve most if you can work at a speed which challenges you but which is not beyond your capacity to attain . |
| 11 | In the language of sociobiology , " kinship " , outside the immediate bond of mother/infant and , perhaps , sibling/sibling , is a biological relationship which may be discovered by the research worker but which is not known to the actors in the scenario under observation . |
| 12 | excludes light and insects but which is not airtight . |
| 13 | These give us further grounds for thinking that there is some characteristic which is common to the postnominal attributives and to the predicative position of the adjective in a relative clause , but which is not found in the prenominal adjectives . |
| 14 | I think it is erm Greater York that has been seen as an area with special problems because of its er historic character , erm which we spent many hours debating at the York greenbelt local plan inquiry , and I think most participants there accepted that the er what was being protected was not just the historic core , but also the setting of York and its surrounding ring of villages , and the way which it is proposed to protect that setting and character is by a greenbelt , now it follows that if you are imposing extremely severe restrictions on new development in an area around a settlement , then you have to meet the legitimate development needs for that settlement in another location , the further away that new settlement or other policy response is located it seems to me the less likely it is to meet the er needs of that settlement , and that will give rise to erm , you know , additional pressures on the settlement you are proposing to protect and maybe those pressures could not be resisted , and I think that 's why there is this requirement that erm the development which might otherwise be built on the edge of York , but which is not proposed to be so built because of the greenbelt needs to be located close , as close to York as is consistent with the original environmental objectives greenbelt objectives for the greenbelt . |
| 15 | Traditional Christian teaching has been removed from many schools and replaced by what may be in the minds of teachers clear and accurate material , but which is not infrequently received as a mish-mash of other religions and vague talk of spiritual development . |
| 16 | I do not believe those powers would be of use My Lords I er take the view that they would not have been abused by past Home Secretaries , no not by men like the late Tutor Reed or the Noble Lord Jenkins or the Noble Lord Callaghan , they would not be abused today by my Right Honourable Friend Mr Howard , I doubt if they would be abused by Mr Blair should he at some time become Home Secretary and I think we 're becoming slightly attached to an artificial argument that somehow or the other there is great respect for the local authorities , but which is not extended to the National Institutions of Government and to the Home Office and the Home Secretary . |
| 17 | For example , in the following sentence : Since the last time we met when we had that huge dinner Ive been on a diet the first two tone-units present information which is relevant to what the speaker is saying , but which is not something new and unknown to the listener . |
| 18 | But she is not yet using the same language herself . |
| 19 | ‘ In Mrs Warren 's Profession her profession is the oldest profession , but she is not really a lost woman . |
| 20 | If a male , for example , is constantly harassing his mate , keeping her in her cave or in a corner of the tank , often with serious damage being inflicted , this shows that he is ready to breed but she is not . |
| 21 | Life passes through her domain , but she is not of it ; she is beyond it . |
| 22 | The statue at the Old Bailey may not be able to speak , but she is not dumb . |
| 23 | PRINCESS Diana may be beautiful but she is not perfect , says top make-up artist Clayton Howard . |
| 24 | But she is not for me nor I for her . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | She is nasal , but she is not loud . |
| 27 | She may be virtuous , but she is not capable of defending civilisation against its attackers . |
| 28 | As I have often said , I believe that Israel within her pre-1967 frontiers is a democracy , which is not true of many , if any , other states in that part of the world , but she is not a democracy in so far as the occupied territories are concerned . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | His mother did encourage him in other of his writings , and certainly there is a good deal of family tradition in the ten books , which might reflect her influence , but she is not mentioned in the preface to the Decem Libri Historiarum . |