Example sentences of "but [adv] [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She taught briefly in schools in Liverpool , Oban , and Eastbourne , and for a longer period in Tunbridge Wells , but eventually returned to Inverness to keep house for her invalid father , whom she outlived by only two years . |
| 2 | WHYTE Crucial clearances but rarely got to grips with Hateley or McCoist 6 |
| 3 | The reforms in education are broadly right , but badly sold to teachers and the public . |
| 4 | The spraying of the pesticide , Galecron , took place in 1976 , but only came to light during a recent Swiss TV programme . |
| 5 | Is this the classless society but only open to millionaires ? |
| 6 | The risk of events occurring prior to the Balance Sheet Date but only coming to light after the Accounts have been signed off should be placed on the Vendor . |
| 7 | McAllister had gone out , but only to speak to Rose , who had managed to obtain a new post as a maid-of-all-work , and , her half-day off also being Wednesday , had come to ask McAllister to go up West with her again . |
| 8 | After the establishment by the Viet Minh of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam ( DRV ) in the north in 1945 , he was dispatched to the South during the war against the French in the early 1950s , but soon returned to Hanoi and to a place in the Communist Party politburo , Vietnam having meanwhile , in 1954 , been partitioned into two military zones , with DRV forces in the north and French forces in the south . |
| 9 | Halcyon barley came in at 24% moisture initially , but soon dropped to 19% . |
| 10 | They started to work out the answers mentally , but soon resorted to calculators . |
| 11 | Large diving sea ducks , often breeding on fresh water but normally resorting to salt water at other times . |
| 12 | ‘ The answers are wildly varied but generally appertain to improvements in control and standard of service . |
| 13 | The position should be sunny , but not exposed to winds . |
| 14 | Two caucasian Oxford residents with HLA-B53 but not exposed to malaria were tested as controls and neither responded to any peptide . |
| 15 | They are relatively expensive items — but not compared to plant downtime . |
| 16 | At the point of a gun , says one author but not according to Bao Dai himself . |
| 17 | all consequences suffered by the Carrier ( including but not limited to claims , demands , proceedings , fines , penalties , damages , costs , expenses , and loss of or damage to the carrying vehicle and to other goods carried ) of any error , omission , mis-statement or misrepresentation by the Trader or other owner of the goods or by any servant or agent of either of them , insufficient or improper packing , labelling or addressing of the goods or fraud as in Condition 10 : |
| 18 | Any other information , oral written , or in pictorial form including but not limited to material of a technical , operational , administrative economic , planning business or financial nature which may be provided to you and your Representatives ( as defined below ) during the course of your evaluation of the Company , whether provided by KPMG Peat Marwick , the management and employees of the Company , or the shareholders of the Company ( ‘ the Vendors ’ ) or their professional advisers . |
| 19 | This was a building of secrets , a part of British Military Intelligence , but not linked to Cheltenham 's GCHQ , and a place for only the most covert communications . |
| 20 | Answering phones and taking messages but not responding to queries |
| 21 | Two men were arrested but not brought to trial . |
| 22 | Add the bouquet garni and cook for 1–1 hour 20 minutes until the pheasant is well cooked but not falling to pieces . |
| 23 | They demurred politely , but finally succumbed to Alan 's persuasion . |
| 24 | The easy course , in fact , in a life of ‘ self-sufficiency ’ is to drift from day to day , working hard but always responding to circumstances ; on a subsistence holding like ours , there is always somewhere to be weeded ; something to be mended or maintained . |
| 25 | ‘ There were three of us in here , ’ said Porter slowly , his gaze flicking from one visitor to the other , but always returning to Anne Hopper . |
| 26 | You control a floating hand that wibbles of its own accord but still responds to joystick commands , so you do n't have to wait for it to wobble onto the bit of the board you want to shoot at . |
| 27 | It was particularly frustrating for Bob Bridges who went into the last match on level points with Jones and caught over 40 fish — but still failed to weigh-in . |
| 28 | Hypoglycaemia may be asymptomatic ( Calabrese et al , 1982 ) but still lead to secretion of adrenaline ( Rizza et al , 1979 ) and hence activation of platelets . |
| 29 | On his return , he entered the Royal College of Music to study singing , but later turned to art , and in April 1914 he enrolled in the Académie Delacluse in Paris . |
| 30 | The driver was taken to the same hospital , but later moved to Wolverhampton for his own protection as angry relatives and friends of the girls ' families gathered in corridors . |