Example sentences of "but [adv] [verb] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often these houses were used initially as museums , but eventually fell victim to a series of expenditure cutbacks . |
| 2 | The film ended with Wayne assuming responsibility for an orphaned Vietnamese boy to the strains of The Ballad of the Green Berets and the sun apparently setting in the east , a scene which outraged his critics but apparently brought tears to the eyes of many less demanding viewers . |
| 3 | She was wearing huge aviator glasses , designed to hide but only drawing attention to the palely perfect face , the unlipsticked mouth , the silvery blonde hair fine as maize silk , which was drawn back into the nape of her neck . |
| 4 | The original Sale of Goods Act of 1893 was intended , not to dictate to the parties what the terms of their bargain should be , but only to provide solutions to problems and questions unforeseen and unconsidered by the parties . |
| 5 | The ridge is stony but easily followed south to its highest point , at 2170 feet , indicated by an Ordnance column . |
| 6 | for instance , acknowledge the complexity and contradictions of power relations , but nevertheless allocate people to one category only : ‘ women , blacks , trade unionists , gays , youth and national minorities ’ ( 1979 : 5 ) . |
| 7 | It extensively overlaps the gorilla in its forest range but generally shows adaptations to lighter drier woodlands . |
| 8 | Some of these people may not have found it convenient to visit but may have phoned ; some may have ‘ visited ’ but not gained access to the ward . |
| 9 | The severe but not unalluring woman to Wakeman 's left now entered the exchange , stabbing her cigarette in the ashtray as she spoke . |
| 10 | The original cross had been in place since the fifteenth century , but finally fell victim to the elements . |
| 11 | Skiing : Park City creates a fantasy on the carpet John Samuel reports from Utah on an artificial but nonetheless entrancing start to the World Cup season . |
| 12 | It shows a more mundane but still corrupting insensitivity to liberty , a failure to grasp its force and place in modern democratic ideals … . |
| 13 | Privatisation moves may initially favour a strengthening of links with foreigners , but later give way to greater support for local firms when their objections to being excluded are heard . |
| 14 | Net profits were hit by £900,000 exceptional charges , but also grew 19% to £4.4m . |
| 15 | In early 1989 the Recruit scandal forced Takeshita from office prematurely [ see p. 36589 ] , but also implicated Abe to such an extent — it forced him to resign as LDP secretary-general — that the premiership once again eluded him . |
| 16 | While the Thatcher government has had a major policy aim of controlling public expenditure and has used the block-grant regime and rate-capping to that end , centrally imposed financial controls not only infringe the rights of elected councillors to determine local spending needs and priorities but also undermine accountability to local ratepayers . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , these apparently simple arrangements belie more complex interrelationships ( Fig. 85 ) : not all places had access to sufficient wood stocks , and owners of well-wooded land would not only supply their own estates but also sell wood to less-wooded estates . |
| 18 | Residential care may be necessary not simply for the medical emergencies of starvation in anorexia or electrolyte imbalance in both anorexia arid bulimia but also to monitor adherence to the requirements of basic physical abstinence — This monitoring commonly may need to extend to patients initially being on " locked bathroom " status so that they may not use baths , basins or showers except under staff supervision , nor may they flush lavatories until after staff inspection . |
| 19 | Students actively participated in these discussions , but also sought solutions to their own personal problems arising from their socio-economic position . |
| 20 | Surrealists not only saw art as being composed of signifying elements drawn from the real , but also understood reality to be composed of signifying elements . |
| 21 | By using the formula , the speaker not only seeks to deflect criticism , but also lays claim to be a member of the moral community of the unprejudiced . |
| 22 | So , from their viewpoint , management 's job is to use the factors at its disposal to provide returns to the shareholders , but also to provide returns to employees . |
| 23 | Saga publishes a booklet , Saving and Spending on Longer Holidays Abroad , which not only details the savings householders of any age can expect to make while they take an extended holiday , but also gives advice to pensioners on how to ensure they get their pension while they winter abroad . |
| 24 | Her life must have been hard for she not only produced ten children , one of whom died in infancy but also gave birth to my mother when in her forty-fifth year . |
| 25 | Refusing to pay the army 's wages risks not only throwing away all that has been achieved , against the odds , but also consigning Cambodia to renewed civil war . |
| 26 | The diversity and volume of silver bearing his mark is far greater than can have emerged from a single workshop and it has been generally acknowledged , after a century dominated by the concept of the maker 's mark , that De Lamerie , in common with many other goldsmiths registering marks at Goldsmiths ' Hall , not only fulfilled orders with other goldsmiths ' wares but also subcontracted orders to a range of London workshops , although striking the finished wares with his own punch . |
| 27 | He walked first of all towards the place where he and Christian had tied their horses , but then changed direction to where he had noticed Anna seated on the steps of a caravan . |
| 28 | Corks first popped in ancient Greece and Rome , but then gave way to more primitive stoppers . |
| 29 | I spent most of the day mooching around Winnipeg , seeing a couple of owners once in a shop selling Eskimo sculptures , but never coming face to face with anyone who might know me . |