Example sentences of "but [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to see her like that would hurt my feelings and hurt our Izzat ( pride ) . ’ |
| 2 | But to see it from this perspective is to distort it . |
| 3 | But to see it from this perspective is to distort it . |
| 4 | If a power of appointment , either in law or in fact , is vested in trade unions , the effect is not only to arrogate to them rights attaching only to ownership , but to establish them in this particular matter as the constitutional equals of Parliament . |
| 5 | To abstract oneself from them , means to abstract from … the fundamental characteristic of the ‘ new economics [ since ] the fundamental , decisive relationship of production is the relationship of the working class leadership in production both towards every stratum of the proletariat taken separately and towards the technical intelligentsia … it is possible and permissible to abstract yourself from whatever you like , but to abstract yourself from that which determines the content of an historical production model is something not permitted to the Marxist . |
| 6 | Acclaiming him as one of the chief progenitors , the critics come not to bury but to praise him with faint damns . |
| 7 | In the end an expensive system is installed not to fulfil the task but to do lots of other fascinating things that do not need doing . |
| 8 | To lighten what can be quite an anxiety provoking experience , it is sometimes helpful to ask the client to role play a particular situation , but to do it at first , extremely badly . |
| 9 | It takes a special person to handle complaints in any case but to do it for 22 years deserves a special mention , always maintaining a diplomatic and friendly attitude to each individual case . |
| 10 | Would , would , would would , but , I mean I 'm quite in favour of people having their genitals mutilated as adults , once they 're over eighteen , they go to hospital and sign a consent form and have it done as long as they pay for it themselves , but to do it to newborn children strikes me as outrageous . |
| 11 | ( ‘ Every nation is to be considered advisedly , and not to provoke them by any disdain , laughing , contempt or suchlike , but to use them with prudent circumspection , with all gentleness , and courtesy . ’ |
| 12 | But to use it with inadequate or mistaken information is the most dangerous of all . |
| 13 | ‘ I can half accept the free kick because it was in a central position but to let one in straight from a corner is something else … |
| 14 | He said , ‘ You understand that in my capacity as stage manager it 's my job not only to train you in your chosen career but to guide you in other respects . ’ |
| 15 | The correct policy with respect to them was thus not to abolish them but to subject them to constructive supervision . |
| 16 | I would , myself , be very keen to look at the possibility of such machines perhaps even going to third world countries , because it 's even arguable that the place for such intelligence systems is not to replace expert medical people in this country where we have such people , but to export them to developing countries which do n't have such people , and one could imagine , perhaps , a system of erm paramedical orderlies , who had some sort of medical knowledge and manipulative skill , taking a small expert computer in a shoe box — it would be no bigger — to villages and getting diagnoses of patient illnesses there on the spot . |
| 17 | But to break us into this new er schooling the Headmaster had us in various mornings for an hour and was supposed , well tried , to make a sort of summary of what the lesson would have been in standard three . |
| 18 | One very exciting and yet subtle way to treat the subject is to keep to one main colour but to introduce it in all its different shades and tones . |