Example sentences of "[adv] but to [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Obedience under legal authority is not owed to an individual personally but to the impersonal and abstract rules specifying the rights of office . |
2 | These allow soil attachment to occur normally but to the coating rather than the substrate . |
3 | He had tried to sleep when he got home but to no avail . |
4 | First , the producer sells his work not directly but to a distributive intermediary , who then becomes , in a majority of cases , his factual if often occasional employer . |
5 | In the second instance , some posts may be advertised repeatedly but to no avail . |
6 | I waited three days for the sun to come out but to no avail , so on a very grey , cloudy day I set my easel by the French doors , put my paints and brushes on a high stool next to me and started . |
7 | She would cut up yesterday 's leftover bread , staling now but to the taste of Madeleine , and carry that and the new baguette along the corridor to the dining-room . |
8 | Each acts independently but to a central timetable . |
9 | Ma'am , I have been reading my Bible and am left in no doubt that I have sinned and am paying the just penalty for sin and I repent strongly but to no avail as yet . |
10 | On the other hand , if the consumer is making an offer , he is entitled , for record purposes , to a copy of the agreement there and then but to a second copy , which must be sent to him when the creditor accepts his offer , within seven days of the conclusion of the contract ( s63(2) ) . |