Example sentences of "[adj] but [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | to speak fully about this but to leave time for questions . |
| 2 | The only bad thing of course , if we were to get relegated but to bring promotion and relegation into speedway is a good thing because you know , if you win the lower league , what have you won it for ? |
| 3 | The trade union leadership remained unmoved but to quote Race and Class ( Winter 1977 ) : |
| 4 | A high bank with a ditch on one side , it was built between the estuaries of the Dee and Severn in the late eighth century by Offa , king of Mercia , not as a defence against the Welsh but to control trade across the border . |
| 5 | What is striking about it is that he is the first Anglo-Saxon king known to have abdicated to go to Rome and that he went to Rome not as a baptized Christian but to seek baptism . |