Example sentences of "but to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to the ‘ rebellion ’ ( which may have given rise to something far deeper , as we shall see ) we must add two further emphases which we have italicised . |
| 2 | She did not go to the room with the twin beds but to the single room with the sloping ceiling . |
| 3 | It may be obvious to tennis nuts why tennis should be the chosen one , but to the objective outsider , other games have better claims to priority . |
| 4 | Mr Gray said the Distone order had not been to V Corps , but to the neighbouring XIII Corps , and Lord Aldington had been correct to follow the Robertson order . |
| 5 | But to the north , where the main Himalayan chain should have loomed , the curtain never parted , and it was the same story in the morning . |
| 6 | Few appointments made by the Civil Service Commission in recent years will be so crucial , not just to the efficient running of the welfare state , but to the progress of the most significant Civil Service reform this century . |
| 7 | That Alex Wyllie , the grizzled New Zealand coach , regards this as the All Blacks ' most important tour since the Cup is a tribute not to the Welsh but to the necessity of bringing through the next generation of players . |
| 8 | ‘ We lost the American colonies because the colonial governments were not in all things answerable to the local parliaments but to the Parliament at Westminster . |
| 9 | Once again , the male homosexual is someone who refuses to risk himself in relation to the other , but now the risk is not in relation to the opposite sex ( as in Scruton and Mailer ) , but to the same sex as rival . |
| 10 | Phoebe opened her eyes and saw the abstracted professional look in the doctor 's face ; attentive not to Phoebe but to the lump , to the breast itself . |
| 11 | This is principally indexed to the claimed historical transformation of Modernism into a series of engaged avant-gardes dedicated not to the aestheticisation of life , but to the integration of art into life . |
| 12 | Suppose it is 12 noon on a Monday by GMT ; at this moment , to the traveller who has travelled eastwards it will be midnight at the end of Monday , but to the westward traveller it will be midnight at the beginning of Monday . |
| 13 | Advice on time-zone transitions depends very much upon the kind of journey being made , so we consider the following possibilities : • A flight crossing only a few ( one or two ) time zones ; • A flight crossing several time zones , ( to the west or east ) and when the stop-over , before returning home , is short ; • A flight crossing several time zones to the west where there is sufficient time and need for adjustment to the new time zone ; • A flight as in the last example , but to the east . |
| 14 | Phaedra , the all-powerful matriarch , conceives a wild passion for her stepson Hippolytus , who rejects her love with speeches hostile not just to her but to the whole erotic faculty . |
| 15 | The Commandments relate not only to religion , but to the intercourse between people , which is most interesting to me . |
| 16 | Most of the boat people wanted to go , not to Hong Kong , but to the United States . |
| 17 | But to the sounds of utter silence from the European section of the Augusta press room , he hit his tee shot at the short 12th into the water , took five and by the 15th had given up his lead . |
| 18 | He drank barley wine which is quite strong stuff and he 'd smoke a few joints as well , but to the best of my knowledge , he would n't touch any hard drugs at all . |
| 19 | Broadly speaking , then , the powers and duties of parents and guardians relate not to property , but to the care and custody of the infant 's person . |
| 20 | Hitler is still today regarded there in ‘ heroic ’ terms as a ‘ great statesman ’ and ‘ significant personality ’ , whose foreign policy achieved German power and autonomy , while his failure and the loss of the war are put down to sabotage from within , and the war itself attributed not to Hitler but to the meddling of the western powers in a German-Polish conflict . |
| 21 | In pagan days , when Celtic pilgrims journeyed not to Knock but to the Sacred Feasts of Tara , matchmaking played an important part in the celebrations . |
| 22 | No longer to you , Herbert von Karajan , but to the nameless crowd which Honegger is addressing from the pinnacle of his genius . |
| 23 | But to the men of Kufra whose fathers or grandfathers had settled there because it was so centrally placed on trade routes , or because it was so remote from Ottoman , Italian or British control , ‘ central government ’ appeared indeed as a real force , but as one located — so to speak — in the extreme northwestern corner , in Tripoli . |
| 24 | This increasing emphasis on ‘ dignity ’ was not only a reference to behaviour within the chapel but to the nature of the Church as a body . |
| 25 | She would live these seven days of re-creation as a monument not only to her vow but to the belief , shared with Daniel , that there are transcendental values in all creation . |
| 26 | It sounds like a typical design-by-committee product , but to the general relief the closest boat to this , the anodyne German Teeny , did not make it past Dover . |
| 27 | Liberal Democrats know that we have a duty , not only to each other but to the generations which follow us , to protect the environment . |
| 28 | The ‘ design for living ’ shown by a species is the outcome of this selective process and is related not at all to any eventuality that may arise but to the set of conditions , the ‘ niche ’ , to which the evolutionary process has confined the species . |
| 29 | But to the north of New Zealand , the ocean current runs in a giant circle , a gyre . |
| 30 | Even the House of Commons Select Committee on Energy , reporting on the PWR in 1981 , said that ‘ all reactor types require regular inspection , but to the best of our understanding , in none of the others can a small failure in the inspection procedure lead directly to the risk of a major emergency or accident … ’ |