Example sentences of "but [adv] the [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | To this great current of faith , life in this world was not an end in itself , but rather the prelude to the life to come . |
| 2 | So , but , but basically the answer to your question is , if we were n't asked then there 's no requirement for us to give the information . |
| 3 | They enclose all pastures ; they throw down houses ; they pluck down towns , and leaving nothing standing but only the church to be made into a sheep-house … the husbandmen be thrust out of their own , or else by covin and fraud or by violent oppression they be put besides it , or by wrongs and injuries they be so wearied , that they be compelled to sell all . |
| 4 | Information obtained retrospectively from case notes is unreliable but generally the correspondence to be found in case notes showed the clinician 's reason for referring a patient and gave reliable clues to the prediction of the result . |
| 5 | The degree of control of human populations required by the design , especially in the random allocation of subjects to experimental and to control groups , and subjecting one but not the other to the causal treatment in the field , is practically impossible . |
| 6 | But not the drift to the mainland for work for the young men . |
| 7 | If the Policyholder was unaware of the faulty roof or did not have reasonable time in which to carry out repairs , then it is in order to deal with the claim for the damage to the internal decorations and/or contents but not the repairs to the roof , which the Policyholder should have carried out as soon as possible . |
| 8 | It tackled the role of safety management in promoting nuclear safety , but not the extent to which licensees already accept the principles in practice . |
| 9 | Similarly , with the various aspects of stock work , careful and skilful handling not only reduced the time and effort of the person involved but also the stress to the stock . |
| 10 | Japan 's newly modernized armed forces achieved a resounding victory , and the terms of the peace treaty exacted from the Chinese not only a massive indemnity , but also the cession to Japan of Formosa ( Taiwan ) , the Pescadores Islands and the Liaodong peninsula , which lay off the Manchurian coast west of Korea . |
| 11 | We shall need to study , not just the individual characteristics of leadership , but also the reaction to leadership by others . |
| 12 | However any small boat owner will appreciate not only the need for recording navigational information but also the pleasure to be gained after the event in recalling the events of a passage or cruise through the pages of a log kept at the time . |
| 13 | In London , figures collected by the London Research Centre with the help of the London boroughs revealed not only the rapid decay of inner city housing as suggested by the national survey , but also the extent to which chronic disrepair is now prevalent even in suburban areas . |
| 14 | Money was the key not to happiness — they were too fine for that — but unashamedly the answer to material necessity . |
| 15 | For , as Engels wrote to Kautsky in 1882 , both movements had ‘ not only the right but even the duty to be nationalistic before they become internationalistic … they are most internationalistic when they are genuinely nationalistic ’ . |
| 16 | But why the decision to showcase the films under a separate L&G banner ? |
| 17 | The end of this breakwater only becomes clear when fairly close , but otherwise the approaches to the main port are simple . |