Example sentences of "[adj] but [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As has been pointed out " the purpose of many opposition amendments is not to make the Bill more generally acceptable but to make the Government less generally acceptable . " |
| 2 | Do you think the Labour Party had any alternative but to travel the course it has taken ? |
| 3 | Now that was true until the late sixties early seventies and of course er you find there the election to the o to the White House of one Richard Milhous Nixon , conservative Republican er a man who was not above hiring gangsters and burglars to do his work for him , and this produced a reaction and if you read the , the presidential literature of the nineteen seventies you will find the opposite , you will find er political scientists , all American , er demanding reforms of the American system , not to make the president more powerful but to make the president less powerful . |
| 4 | The reason they would not otherwise do so becomes apparent from the biographical sources , from which it is clear that though it was possible to obtain mevleviyets from these medreses , men who did so tended not to rise much higher but to spend the rest of their lives in relatively low-ranking mevleviyets . |
| 5 | The role of the occupational health department is not only to provide a service to those who are unwell but to assist the employer to gain the maximum benefit from the labour force by maintaining and promoting health among staff , thus reducing absence . |