Example sentences of "[verb] but to [art] " in BNC.

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1	She addresses herself in this article not to the schoolchildren whom she describes but to an audience of fellow academics .
2	Yet each in his own way sincerely struggled to impose order on a country where Lowlander and Highlander rarely met in friendship , and could rarely communicate in the same tongue ; where there was the continual threat of another English excuse for invasion , often abetted by self-seeking elements within the kingdom itself ; and where arrogant noblemen prolonged family feuds disruptive not merely to the families conceded but to the governance of the kingdom itself .
3	Or are they grown up and still writing but to no avail ?
4	Blows were exchanged faster than the eye could follow but to no avail — within minutes the proud High Elf lay headless on the plain .
5	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 .
6	( Note : The use of the term ‘ manual ’ here does not refer to the use of sign language and/or fingerspelling but to the learning of trades such as carpentry etc . )
7	The objection is not that such matters are raised but to the poisonous or venomous manner in which it is done .
8	He wrote notes , asking if they could meet but to no avail .
9	Desperately she pleaded but to no avail .
10	Everything had been tried but to no avail — the suffering had been agony , not even deadened with morphine .
11	The intensity of their feeling was due not just to fear that the landed interest might suffer but to the affront caused to a governing class centred on London and the Home Counties by the notion that those living in the provinces might prefer a degree of local autonomy .
12	He was court martialled but to the anger of the unpopular Governor , was acquitted .

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