Example sentences of "but to an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes I used actually to go to a church in my religion , not to one peopled by a clergyman , choir boys , bald old men , and ladies with feathers in their hats , but to an empty church . |
| 2 | Horses are very much creatures of habit , too , but to an even greater degree ; and like us , can form both good and bad habits . |
| 3 | Happily , Herstmonceux has not been sold to a corporate buyer seeking to take advantage of this potential cornucopia of planning permissions , but to an American who values the place for its beauty and history . |
| 4 | It was not a call to workaholism and a sense of achievement , but to an abiding relationship with him . |
| 5 | It was later , in my wartime hospital that I first realised that the Second Commandment had not been given to Moses on Mount Sinai but to an Irish priest upon the Mountains of Mourne . |
| 6 | When interviewing Margaret , the therapist found her to be moderately depressed , but to an extent in keeping with her problems . |
| 7 | She was an aristocrat and woman of royal blood , who had seen the throne pass in 518 not to her son ( who had married the Emperor Anastasius 's daughter ) , but to an uneducated provincial , Justin , the illiterate soldier-son of an Illyrian peasant . |
| 8 | The title Kirkby Hill Races is something of a misnomer , as it refers not to a race but to an election . |
| 9 | Nicholas served as spiritual director not only to the members of the family , but to an increasing circle of friends and relations who sought his advice by correspondence . |
| 10 | But to an Elf people desperate for stability , shocked to the very core by their sundering with their kin of Naggaroth , he promised a familiar hand at the tiller . |
| 11 | Around half of this increase was due not to the automatic impact of recession on spending and taxes , but to an increase in structural deficits . |
| 12 | For the clinical and educational professions ( and the lay notions which derive their values from them ) , their very practice makes it clear what fact it is that you ‘ come to terms ’ with : you have not given birth to a member of the human species as we define it , and to which we allocate certain rights and social roles , but to an object of pathology — a ‘ monster ’ , to use a technical term employed in medical anatomy . |
| 13 | She addresses herself in this article not to the schoolchildren whom she describes but to an audience of fellow academics . |
| 14 | On a personal note , may I say that when I want to hear the Fourth Symphony for pleasure , which is relatively speaking often , I turn not to Munch or Dutoit but to an old tape I have from 1954 of the much underrated Albert Wolff conducting the Swedish Radio Orchestra . |
| 15 | Merton himself was aware of the problem when he raised this question : Merton 's answer was that both processes were at work , but to an unknown extent . |
| 16 | The so-called ‘ North-South drift ’ and ‘ urban-rural shift ’ have become particularly important issues over the past two decades , because with the slower rate of national population growth these forms of redistribution lead not only to relative decline but to an absolute fall in population numbers for many of the less dynamic areas . |
| 17 | The hon. Member for Lancaster rightly said that what the Home Secretary called the fast-track applicant will go not to a tribunal but to an adjudicator with no new evidence . |