Example sentences of "but [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We used to visit Toftingall frequently , not only to fish , but to delight in the wide variety of bird life that called the loch home . |
| 2 | For many years , tram and bus crews operated as separate entities , but to cope with the seasonal demand for drivers , bus crews worked overtime on trams . |
| 3 | Having seen all of this , Stoker , they say , told Irving he wished not only to administer Irving 's theatrical affairs , but to write for the great man . |
| 4 | But no entry is given by Meude-Monpas for ‘ Batteur de mesure , and it is relevant to note that Meude-Monpas 's stated purpose was not to be academic about things , but to write for the ordinary reader . |
| 5 | It was a potent stimulator for our technical people , not just for the marginal improvements from our operating experience which would be built into the next plant , but to look for the major change in thinking which alone would put us ahead of the competition . |
| 6 | ‘ I would always tell people not to be too sensitive to the special offer mortgage rate but to look at the long-term history of how the lender treats borrowers and at all the extra fees attached , ’ says Ms Blackman . |
| 7 | Radcliffe-Brown ( 1952 ) and Evans-Pritchard ( 1965 ) denied this , stating that there was no a priori reason for not assuming the opposite , namely that ritual creates anxiety , and that the task of the anthropologist was not to infer psychological states in others , but to focus on the sociological significance of social institutions : ritual being one such . |
| 8 | Then she knew that she needed not to sneak out by the convenient back exit , but to leave through the front entrance , trusting its outrageous , ostentatious vulgarity to reassure and comfort her . |
| 9 | The aim is to acknowledge the guilty nature of the hero according to one set of criteria , those of ordinary morality , but to stress at the same time that his guilty act is a source of pride and value of an altogether different , non-moral , antinomian kind . |
| 10 | A few of the players such as Jim McKeever and Phil Stuart reside in Belfast but all are expected to be in Dublin not only to be feted but to cheer on the present day Oak Leaf county heroes . |
| 11 | ‘ What we have sought to do ’ , claims Francis speaking for the organisers of the exhibition , ‘ is not to reconstruct time past but to expose to the light things that have run the risk of acquiring the patina of nostalgia and the glamour of neglect . ’ |
| 12 | If it is true that no man knows what may befall him , nor how he may make himself safe against all future evils , is it not therefore the wisest course to make no provision , but to live in the present experience only ? |
| 13 | Jakobson 's answer to this argument is , however , a powerful one : all users of a language must necessarily know the system of categories into which its different elements are divided , even if only unconsciously ; and his analysis of poetry does not claim to represent what goes on in the reader 's mind , but to account for the special effect which the poetry , for reasons of which he may well be unaware , exercises on him . |
| 14 | Erm but to get into the social work department she 'll still have to do the that that |
| 15 | But to get over the main ideas , we will consider just two plates , and the margins between them : the East Pacific Plate and the South American-Atlantic Plate . |
| 16 | That will be the convenient and sensible course because what such a defendant is seeking is not so much to correct an error in the judge 's decision , for which appeals to this court are designed , but to have for the first time a hearing at which his evidence is considered . |
| 17 | The point , however , is not to lament over the once great dace swims which have changed for the worse , but to think in the opposite way — that some of the swims you tried three or four seasons ago without any success may now have turned into ones where dace congregate . |
| 18 | But to return to the old bee-keeper : |
| 19 | But to return to the initial arrival at the accident site , what is the operational investigator looking for ? |
| 20 | About half a dozen employees decided not to relocate their homes immediately at the time of the company 's move south , but to relocate in the following year . |