Example sentences of "but [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had not been a response to an immediate military threat , but rather to something fundamentalist and almost intuitive — a feeling that Britain must possess so climacteric a weapon in order to deter an atomically armed enemy , a feeling that Britain as a great power must acquire all major new weapons , a feeling that atomic weapons were a manifestation of the scientific and technological superiority on which Britain 's strength , so deficient in sheer numbers of men , must depend . |
| 2 | The biblical tradition , while taking sin and the Fall seriously , does not consider the universe and the world as things to be exploited , but rather to be treated with respect . |
| 3 | Of course , anthropologists know that they themselves do not belong to cultures of this kind ; but rather to ones which present a jumble of themes , in which any impression of overall coherence is produced kaleidoscopically — that is to say , patterned arbitrarily with mirrors . |
| 4 | Most of these are rather old , and do n't relate to the present Plate Tectonic picture , but rather to the situation ten or twenty million years ago . |
| 5 | Finally , from within psychoanalytical criticism but from outside the Anglo-American paradigm , Gertrud Koch has drawn attention to a different theorisation of the gaze , one that does not link it to voyeuristic ( peeping through the keyhole ) pleasure but rather to the earlier , pre-symbolic stage in which the small child gazes openly at the world and at its mother : ‘ We may in fact owe the invention of the camera not to the keyhole but to the baby-carriage ’ . |
| 6 | Therefore one must conclude that the ‘ death line ’ for dry gas is not related to the exhaustion of the source rock coal but rather to the disappearance of good reservoirs due to lack of porosity . |
| 7 | The symptoms and signs are not considered to be the illness but rather to be the results of the body 's reaction to the original state of imbalance . |
| 8 | This is not a reference to any pet the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger may have had but rather to a ‘ thought experiment ’ he proposed ( a thought experiment is one that can not actually be performed , but the examination of which can reveal scientific truths — or , at least , plausibilities ) . |
| 9 | For , in yet another publication , Broken Record ( US Birch Lane Press ) , author Henry Schipper documents the manner in which the National Academy Of Recording Arts And Sciences , the organisation that sponsors America 's most prestigious music awards , has continually looked to the past , even The Beatles losing out to the Grammy gang during 1965 , when the award for ‘ Best Vocal Group ’ went not to John , Paul , George and wotsisname ( who , that year , went to Number One Stateside with ‘ I Feel Fine ’ , ‘ Eight Days A Week ’ , ‘ Ticket To Ride ’ , ‘ Help ’ and ‘ Yesterday ’ ) but rather to Nashville 's pure MOR Anita Kerr Singers , who also won in 1966 ! |
| 10 | The fact that human beings do not always perceive the correct ( rigid ) structure when presented with a mathematically adequate though impoverished stimulus , may be due not ( as Ullman suggests ) to their failing to pick up all of the mathematically necessary information in the stimulus , but rather to their using computational strategies evolved for the perception of non-rigid objects which — even when directed at rigid objects — need more information than is present in the experimental stimulus concerned . |
| 11 | The idea is not so much to seek causes and explanations , as is often the case with survey-style research , but rather to ‘ tell it like it is , . |
| 12 | A fan who was totally uncommitted to the culture , who simply wanted to watch the match , would probably choose not to go into the London Road End at all but rather to one of the quieter side terraces . |
| 13 | The sheet of gut endoderm assumes a characteristic tubular structure at the anterior and posterior ends of the embryo although , unlike the neural tube , this is not due to a fusion of folds but rather to its folding back on itself such that the hindgut and foregut are present initially as blind ending tubes . |
| 14 | The unexpected feature of the quantum world is that the state resulting from this combination does not correspond to the electron being somewhere in the middle between " here " and " there " but rather to its having a certain probability to be found " here " and a certain probability to be found " there " . |
| 15 | Confining ourselves for the moment to pricing structures involving a constant per unit price , we found in section 2.2 that the socially optimal solution is not to raise all prices an equal proportion above average costs , but rather to practice Ramsey-optimal ( value-based ) pricing . |
| 16 | Held , granting the declarations , that it was the moment of adjudication of bankruptcy that caused the property of a bankrupt to vest in his trustee thereby causing an involuntary alienation of his property which resulted in the severance of any joint tenancy he might then be beneficially entitled to ; that the combined effect of sections 37(1) and 38 ( a ) of the Bankruptcy Act 1914 was not to vest title in the trustee retrospectively but rather to vest in the trustee when adjudication occurred title to property which was identified by reference to the property which belonged to the bankrupt at the commencement of the bankruptcy ; and that , accordingly , since the joint tenancy had not been severed before the wife 's death , on her death the husband , as survivor , became entitled to the whole beneficial interest in the properties , which on his adjudication as bankrupt vested in his trustee in bankruptcy ( post , pp. 206A , F–H , 207C ) . |
| 17 | He was there dealing not with summary remedies available to the state to which a citizen had no opportunity to state a defence but rather to additional consequences which might adversely affect a citizen should he fail in his defence to the claim to the principal sum . |
| 18 | This term refers not to a single theory but rather to a set of assumptions underlying a particular approach to the study of perception and cognition . |
| 19 | An increased number of children may not lead to more dwellings being required , but rather to the same number of larger homes ; or may affect the types of homes needed , such as those with amenities like gardens : conversely , an ageing population , which tends to consist of smaller household sizes , may need a larger number of dwellings , perhaps smaller and with special requirements such as ease of access . |
| 20 | He attributes these changes , however , not so much to the positive or negative measures of successive governments , but rather to changes in the total supply of doctors . |
| 21 | The second is a more subjective , less institutionalized and therefore much vaguer classification which does not normally apply to a whole text but rather to parts of it . |
| 22 | This aim does not refer to the effectiveness of actual decisions taken in given circumstances ( which is the central problem of business policy ) , but rather to the attempt to identify those structures of behaviour which contribute to the achievement of organisational goals . |
| 23 | Moving closer , Jehan saw that the ends of the rods were not attached directly to the wheel , but rather to the shaft upon which it was mounted . |
| 24 | Although there were gaps in the system , such as the provision for small firms and for high-risk finance , the fundamental problem with the financing of industry in the UK was correctly attributed not to the lack of availability of external financing , but rather to the inadequacy of industrial performance . |
| 25 | But rather to her surprise , the expected wave of self-pity did n't come . |
| 26 | It is important to remember that ‘ democratic deficit ’ does not refer to any notion that the Commission is too powerful , but rather to the idea that too many decisions are taken by the ‘ unelected ’ Council of Ministers , and that further powers should be transferred from this body and from national parliaments to the European Parliament at Strasbourg . |
| 27 | Who 's Who had never been Greg 's favourite reading but rather to his surprise , it came up trumps : Seymour-Strachey , Gerald Harcourt ; Professor of English Literature , University of Grimsby , 1942–74 ; b. 8th June 1904 ; s. of Stephen Seymour-Strachey and Charlotte Butler : educ . |
| 28 | She looked at him expectantly , but rather to her surprise he merely nodded for her to continue . |
| 29 | The low number of Japanese companies was not due to the companies themselves but rather to the poor organization of the Japan External Trade Organisation ( JETHRO ) in London . |
| 30 | The employer contended that the benefit derived from the employee 's invention of a new valve , for use in steel-making , should not be linked to the patented article itself but rather to the extensive development work expended on it by him after the application had been filed with the Patent Office . |