Example sentences of "but [adv] [adv] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have a Caribbean or African background you may be susceptible to high blood pressure and to diabetes , but less so to heart disease . |
| 2 | But perhaps only to Preston . |
| 3 | Trent ( Triento in northern Italy ) was within the imperial territory , but sufficiently close to Rome for the papacy to influence events . |
| 4 | The new Arrangements are very similar to the 1988 Scheme , the main , and welcome , change being the removal of the lower tier in what had previously been a two-tier system for remuneration for advice at police stations : a solicitor could undertake up to £90 of work , extendable retrospectively , where the client was in custody for an arrestable offence , but only up to £50 ( non-extendable ) otherwise . |
| 5 | In recent years the breed has been exported to some extent to Jamaica , Uganda , Saudi Arabia and Iran but more widely to Canada , the USA and New Zealand . |
| 6 | There were two sisters ahead of me in the family , and though of course I did not know it , there was heady talk of emigration , possibly to Canada but more usually to England , the land of milk and honey and opportunity . |
| 7 | The DES 's 1986 forecasts ( DES , 1986b ) allow the ratio to increase a little but still not to equality . |
| 8 | He has contributed not only to general Marxist theory , but also directly to penology in Whigs and Hunters ( 1977 ) , his painstaking historical study of the passing of the ‘ Black Act ’ of 1723 , a penal statute of extraordinary scope and ferocity . |
| 9 | But now back to Albert the Abo who stayed at home and painted , very successfully , his own place . |
| 10 | Breeding on barren moorlands and tundra ; passing along coasts on passage , but well out to sea in winter , and rare inland after breeding . |
| 11 | A very important time coming up for the club , some very important games , no more important to people in this area than the game at Swindon on Tuesday night , But then away to Middlesborough , home to West Ham , still something to play for for Oxford United this season if the results keep going their way ? |
| 12 | The idea is a relatively new one to engineering but certainly not to planet earth : collagen , keratin , chitin and cellulose are some of nature 's strong fibres and make possible everything from bones and lobster carapaces to giant sequoias . |