Example sentences of "but [to-vb] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not to give freebies but to invest in the workers of the future . |
| 2 | I mean she does everything , you know , burgers you know , stuff that people want , I mean that 's bar meals , but to sit in the dining |
| 3 | ‘ What the rule of compulsion seems to require is that there is no practical choice but to pay in the circumstances , or to put it another way , before a payment will be regarded as involuntary there must be some natural or threatened exercise of power possessed by the party receiving it over the person or property of the taxpayer for which he has no immediate relief than to make the payment … |
| 4 | For example , on high policy common opinion said that there was nothing for it but to stay in the ERM . |
| 5 | All the Cairo world loved a good funeral and the bystanders stopped what they were doing , not so much to let the procession pass but to join in the fun . |