Example sentences of "but it was not " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was neither pleasant nor unpleasant , though the endless peeing , he wrote , the endless getting up in the middle of the night when the ice clung to the windowpanes and the taps were frozen , that was more unpleasant than pleasant , but it was not that , he wrote , these things - will not change , my bladder will not improve and next winter the ice will still cling to the panes and the taps will still freeze , but I will not notice them . |
| 2 | But it was not without its problems . |
| 3 | ( This was done by those Jews who wished to make a Zionistic point , but it was not so shared by Leonard or his family . ) |
| 4 | The old woman was making a clay animal ; the animal was a little like a lion , but it was not a lion . |
| 5 | But it was not so easy to brush him off afterwards . |
| 6 | Her paws kept reaching for the ground , but it was not there . |
| 7 | We actively desired an ever closer union of the European peoples , but it was not laid down how and when this was to be achieved . |
| 8 | But it was not Mr Kinnock whose speech brought about the miraculous change of heart on unilateralism . |
| 9 | A member state was entitled to discriminate in the ages at which men and women became entitled to state pensions but it was not acceptable for a distinction to be made between the sexes as to the age of retirement : see Marchall v Southampton and SW Hampshire Area Health Authority ( Teaching ) ( 1986 ) ICR 335 ; Roberts v Tate & Lyle ( 1986 ) ICR 371 . |
| 10 | But it was not all gloom . |
| 11 | But it was not enough to give me a complex , not as it would have been in America . |
| 12 | But it was not a jurisdictional question , for his jurisdiction to decide it did not depend on the correctness of the answer he gave . |
| 13 | Andrew Sentance , economics director at the Confederation of British Industry , said the economy was balanced on a knife-edge but it was not possible to say whether it was heading irretrievably for recession . |
| 14 | But it was not an impressive performance ; indeed , recalling the swashbuckling victory in Yugoslavia that sent England to the European Championship , one questions whether any genuine progress has been made . |
| 15 | But it was not economic distress that precipitated the present crisis . |
| 16 | A progressive tax on the more productive regions and peasants might have been more just and welcome from the political point of view , but it was not applied for fear of removing the incentive to sow from the better-placed peasants . |
| 17 | But it was not just the short-lived weather which sent spirits soaring . |
| 18 | Mrs Thatcher claimed to have read Hayek 's Road to Serfdom while she was still a student at Somerville College , Oxford , just after the war ; but it was not until the 1970s , while in opposition , that she seems to have read Hayek 's writings more generally . |
| 19 | In the following year the Poles of 300 and 301 Squadrons bombed Berlin , as did the Russians , but it was not until 1942 that the first of the four-engined ‘ heavies ’ made the long flight to this target . |
| 20 | The two archbishops thought that Ramsey would be an excellent bishop but it was not right , it was bad for the Church as well as for the study of divinity , to take him out of the Cambridge chair after so short a tenure . |
| 21 | But it was not to Rachel that she would go , but to her mummy . |
| 22 | It might be necessary but it was not fun , and nothing would ever be fun again . |
| 23 | Footballers sometimes appeared on a music-hall bill in the late Victorian and Edwardian years but it was not until the inter-war years that top players became ‘ stars ’ . |
| 24 | Mist lay in shallow patches over the hollows and where the fields were lying fallow the hay was nearly ready to be cut , but it was not yet cut . |
| 25 | But it was not the mere surface meaning of the words which arrested him . |
| 26 | But it was not until the early 1930s that The Allegory of Love began to take shape as a book , and it was not finished until 1935 . |
| 27 | But it was not the only rainforest tree to fall on that day . |
| 28 | But it was not quite so simple . |
| 29 | But it was not to be quite as he had hoped either . |
| 30 | Once he came out of the Navy , Charles became a little more involved , but it was not really until the end of the decade , after Mountbatten 's death , when he was looking for a real job to do , that Charles took up the reins himself . |