Sentence examples for but not the basic from inspiring English sources

He said BART would consider negotiating some details of the offer but not the basic numbers.

The stakes have risen since then, but not the basic premises.

The Oslo "peace process", begun in 1993, changed the modalities of the occupation, but not the basic concept.

One character, looking after her 14-year-old cousin (Grandfather is dying, Mother is at a church retreat), sums it up heartbreakingly well: "I feel kind of sorry for her entire generation, because they've learned all the theatrical parts of sex so they walk around pouting and posing,... but not the basic mechanical processes of actual pleasure".

There are usually arguments over wording here and there, but not the basic risk vs. benefit analyses of a protocol.

Hence, the presented results show that relatively recent HGT events tend to impact the metabolic potential, but not the basic cell functions, such as replication or recombination.

Our results based on fast visual categorization clearly support the PDP theory and point towards an early temporal window during which categorization is possible at the superordinate level but not at the basic level.

But this is not the basic message of that article.

Few monopolies are permanent, but that's not the basic problem.

The current environment is accentuating problem in newspapers -- but it's not the basic cause.

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