Example sentences of "but [verb] [adv prt] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to go back to the old ways ‘ would be a colossal mistake , ’ he declared . |
| 2 | If you do not reply , the PP does not repeat but goes on to the next question . |
| 3 | The impact of tourism stops pretty soon outside the medieval walls of the town , and the dwellings are like those of any impoverished fishing village in Cornwall , Sicily or Provence : low , simple buildings containing no more than the most primitive necessities , but opening on to the turquoise bay , with the Venetian walls on the western side and red cliffs to the east . |
| 4 | Erm but to come back to the first criterion which says avoid the greenbelt , I know exactly what you mean when you say avoid the greenbelt , but if in the context of the wording before that where it says to be located beyond the outer boundary of the York greenbelt , do you need to have criterion one ? |
| 5 | But going back to the 1944 triptych , you called it a base for the Crucifixion . |
| 6 | That is not standards or objectivity , but giving in to the usual pressures from the National Union of Teachers and NALGO , to which Labour Members always give in . |
| 7 | The Baath was no overnight creation , but went back to the 1940s when it was conceived by the Syrian duo , Salahuddin Bitar and Michel Aflaq , who later fostered branches in a number of Arab states . |
| 8 | The circulation of air round a depression usually has ‘ fronts ’ or areas of rain associated with it , and when birds , which navigate by being able to see the night sky , meet with a barrier of rain and bad visibility then there is nothing for it but to drop down to the nearest land and wait until conditions improve . |
| 9 | The ants initially walk between the two but cross over to the bottom one at the point predicted if the ants are balancing the concentrations measured on either side . |
| 10 | Then I realized he was n't stopping outside Sunil 's house , but carrying on to the other end of the road . |
| 11 | Mineralisation in northern Snowdonia occurs mainly as small veins near the contact of the Ordovician Lower Rhyolitic Tuff Formation and the overlying basic Bedded Pyroclastic Formation but extends down to the underlying sediments . |