Example sentences of "[noun] but to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A similar attitude was shown in 1986 when the Law Lords stated that the Trustee Savings Bank and its assets belonged not to depositors but to the state , shortly before the Bank was floated on the Stock Exchange . |
| 2 | I retraced my steps but to no avail . |
| 3 | Moreover , in determining what is extraordinary or unreasonable the courts can have regard not only to the interests of the defendant but to the public interest as well . |
| 4 | This method — if it can be properly so called — is usually applied not to the full range of candidates but to the candidates of the voter 's favourite party . |
| 5 | When Winston Smith and O'Brien pledge themselves to a revolution against dictatorship , the toast is not to the future but to the past which , as O'Brien puts it with mock gravity , is ‘ more important ’ . |
| 6 | It may be questioned whether such elaborate surveillance ( engaged in not only by the KGB but to a greater or lesser extent by other security organizations ) is really necessary or produces results commensurate with the time , energy and expense involved in the operations . |
| 7 | We believe very strongly that planning permission should be given to permit construction to start , to bring benefits not only to the metropolis but to the north-east , the north-west and other parts of the country to which rail services will run from King 's Cross to other great cities in the United Kingdom . |
| 8 | Taken by surprise and fear of the other the boy lost his balance and tumbled down the grassy bank towards the stranger but to the boy 's incredulous gaze the figure melted into thin air . |
| 9 | Her is an illustrated story to be lingered over and added to with discussion by adult readers or those introducing children not only to the magic of adventure and solid drawing but to the underlying message that is a sober reminder of our obligations to the life and lives of the earth . |
| 10 | Winston Churchill 's writings and speeches have the same quality of speaking not only to the mind but to the heart . |
| 11 | On his mother 's birthday they did n't go to the Spinning Wheel but to the Queen Victoria for lunch , because his father insisted . |
| 12 | ‘ Channel ’ relates not to the preamp 's channels but to the MIDI channels that the preamp can send or receive on . |
| 13 | ‘ I succumbed ’ , Gandhi said later , ‘ not to Lord Irwin but to the honesty in him . ’ |
| 14 | This miscalculation of letting the value of sterling appreciate led not so much to a slim-down of manufacturing industry but to the closure of whole plants . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | To the west of this point oceanic lithosphere of the Indian Plate is currently being subducted below the Sunda Arc but to the east the Arc is in collision with the continental shelf of northern Australia ( this is marked on Figure 3.14 ) . |
| 17 | But Cooper 's figures also possess a larger than life boldness due not so much to childlike innocence but to the kind of confidence we imagine Eve and Adam had before the Fall , However , she is not confronting us with an easily gained optimism nor do her disembodied heads , upturned women and mild impassive eyes really evoke a vision of dream . |
| 18 | Then a silence began to fall on every living thing around the Cages except for a Man running , not towards Woil but to the visitor caught by the hand in the talons of Creggan . |
| 19 | Since the uncle is the boy 's heir , this shows that the jurist must regard a transmissible interest in the estate as having vested in the boy before his death ; which means that he is taking dies cedens to have passed , although the boy has not lived until age sixteen ; and that in turn means that he is interpreting the trust as subject not to a condition but to a term ( dies ) . |
| 20 | Johnson related its effectiveness not to the trickery of the practitioner but to the credulity of the recipient : ‘ It requires no extraordinary talents to lie and deceive . ’ |
| 21 | Child protection registers first came into being in the 1970s and owe their existence not to statute but to a series of departmental circulars . |
| 22 | I say a reasonably just society , rather than a reasonably just law , for consent to obey the law expresses an attitude not to the law but to the society whose law it is . |
| 23 | This may be true but presupposes that the law in question is the one which will govern the contract , whereas the reality is that for every contract governed by that law there will be another contract governed by a foreign law with which the party concerned may be unfamiliar , which is in a foreign language he does not understand , and which , when put to the test , may prove demonstrably inferior not only to his own law but to the proposed uniform law . |
| 24 | Having ascertained that the problem related not to the law but to the evidence , he said : |
| 25 | But for the next week the Circus is very much in town … much to the dismay of the greengrocer who provided lunch but to the delight of those watching |
| 26 | Rifat Efendi gives Rajab 828/May-June 1425 for Molla Fenari 's appointment not to the Muftilik but to the kadilik of Bursa , but it seems likely that this is a slip of the pen and that he means the Muftilik inasmuch as he says that Molla Fenari went on the pilgrimage in 822/1419 before he became Mufti , an appointment he has not otherwise mentioned . |
| 27 | A hastily assembled force of warriors was thrown into battle but to no avail . |
| 28 | There are also indirect impacts of silviculture which relate not only to forest management but to the construction of roads and the effect of forest removal on watershed management . |
| 29 | The Bill comes before the House by an accident of timing that , nevertheless , makes it of particular political relevance not only to the people of Scotland but to the people of the United Kingdom . |
| 30 | I agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff , South and Penarth ( Mr. Michael ) that it is doubly absurd to destroy jobs in the British tobacco industry — as has been done on a large scale — if that leads not to a reduction in tobacco consumption but to the substitution of imported brands of cigarette . |