Example sentences of "but [det] [vb -s] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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1 | I know he 's got his reputation as a good teacher to keep up , but that does n't matter to me , I 'm different , I 'm not like this soft lot down here , my folks came from the North , descended from the Vikings , and I do n't want to be liked , I do n't want to be good , I do n't want to be in the football team , or a useful member of anything , I do n't want to know . |
2 | Merely providing the site will involve the destruction of two trees , which are part of the avenue , but that does n't matter to the County Council because erm they 're not responsible , they can override a tree preservation order and I think this just is morally wrong . |
3 | It is , of course , true that some wrappers might come from the chocolate which had already been bought or from chocolate which would have been bought without the offer , but that does not seem to me to alter the case . |
4 | But that helps just to talk to someone who knows what your going through , but , when all 's said and done , I think it 's down to yourself , really . |
5 | But that has n't happened to our European competitors , who have more bank holidays than the British . |
6 | ‘ Japanese companies have amazing efficiency in manufacturing but this does n't apply to offices , ’ he said . |
7 | But this does not extend to cases where the loan may be replaced by another . |
8 | If he had friends or relatives who were hiding or supporting him it would be a different matter , but this does not appear to be the case . |
9 | But this does not apply to the " second " report — the one that is not published but kept in your files . |
10 | Under the liability section of all policies , liability arising from the ownership , possession or use of firearms is excluded but this does not apply to shotguns or airguns which may be legally owned without possession of a firearms certificate . |
11 | If one is entertaining friends or business colleagues , it is nice to offer three courses , but this does not have to be the case every day . |
12 | Long term insect action may produce modifications similar to that produced by wood-boring insects on dead wood ( Behrensmeyer , 1978 ; Thorne & Kimsey , 1983 ) , but this does not seem to be common . |
13 | We found no change of practice in our study , but this does not seem to be due to a lack of use of management awareness profiles by the maternity units . |
14 | Crystal ( 1969 ) defines paralinguistic features as : ‘ … vocal effects which are primarily the result of physiological mechanisms other than the vocal cords , such as the direct results of the workings of the pharyngeal , oral or nasal cavities ’ but this does not seem to me to fit the facts . |
15 | Our representation of them as groups is an intellectual device for handling them , just as the people themselves use names and labels , but this does not correspond to the empirical reality which is of constant contact and flow between ‘ peoples ’ : a continuum rather than a series of separate but interlocking units . |
16 | But this does not amount to dependence on the political wishes of governments or ministers as such . |
17 | At one time it was thought that high-fibre diets containing bran would be successful , but this has not proved to be the case . |
18 | The centre has had a 90 per cent occupancy rate in the past two years but this has suddenly dropped to 65 per cent , according to area manager Eddie Killoran . |