Example sentences of "but [verb] [adv] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Out of an initial tax revenue of 442 billion dinars in 1985 , the republics and provinces transferred 251 billion dinars to the federal government , but received back grants to the value of 60 billion dinars . |
| 2 | Tinka presented a course of work for backpain control , which not only got us ‘ tightening our tummies ’ and protecting our backs , but opened up Medau to a new and very large community of back-pain sufferers . |
| 3 | If there was some difficulty involved which resulted in your leaving a job , avoid referring to it , but do not resort to outright lying as this will rebound badly against you if you are found out . |
| 4 | Slipper of the Yard objected to some passages in Delano 's book but did not resort to litigation . |
| 5 | The entries in the lexicon do not actually contain semantic information , but have instead pointers to locations in a separate store known as semantic memory in which the meanings are held . |