Example sentences of "but [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The spraying of the pesticide , Galecron , took place in 1976 , but only came to light during a recent Swiss TV programme . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Large diving sea ducks , often breeding on fresh water but normally resorting to salt water at other times . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Hypoglycaemia may be asymptomatic ( Calabrese et al , 1982 ) but still lead to secretion of adrenaline ( Rizza et al , 1979 ) and hence activation of platelets . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A Fool 's Alphabet , say , in which events are narrated not chronologically but alphabetically according to place . |
| 9 | This crosses not only departmental boundaries but also extends to collaboration with other Faculties , notably Social Sciences , Science and Engineering , Divinity , and Law . |
| 10 | This helped promote political stability , but also led to friction within the government and with its supporters , disappointed in their expectation of a major improvement in living conditions . |
| 11 | To , to , to my friend who 'd bought me a , you know , a pint of beer I would have said , ‘ We wanted , I wanted , not only annual licensing but also linked to training and food handling , otherwise it does n't mean anything . ’ |
| 12 | A neighbourly area with at least a few houses nearby will not only give company and a better community feeling but also add to security and safety . |
| 13 | These bouts of manifesto madness , U-turns , and broken promises , not only frustrate business confidence but also lead to public disillusion so that authority dribbles out of government and the legitimacy of the overall system is called into question . |
| 14 | Such attitudes not only displace others from paid employment but also lead to family breakdown . |
| 15 | He would listen to advice , but invariably trust to instinct . |
| 16 | But please remember to book early — even a Saver Set wo n't get you a seat if the performance is already sold out ! |
| 17 | It rose to something like 35,000 tons per year but then began to tail off ( see appendix D ) . |
| 18 | Conversely , fractional albumin clearance fell with both treatments from 0 to 6 months ( although not significantly ) but then rose to pretreatment values after 12 months with hydrochlorothiazide , whereas it fell further with enalapril ( one way analysis of variance of the treatment-time interaction for enalapril group , p=0.022 ) . |
| 19 | This is because of the theological stance of some that people who have taken their own lives can not go to heaven , but instead go to hell eternally because the sin is viewed as such a serious one . |
| 20 | And so she got through the week , surviving mainly on humour and philosophy , but occasionally resorting to sarcasm with particularly obtuse patients . |
| 21 | A 1976 Granada television comedy project , ‘ All The Queen 's Men ’ , featured an all-gay Army unit but never came to fruition . |
| 22 | Unless one school was created as rapidly as it honestly could be , then the corrosive uncertainty would spread , tentative plans would proliferate but never come to fruition . |
| 23 | He resigned , on principle , over Eden 's mismanagement of the Suez crisis , but quietly returned to office under Macmillan as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Education ( first Lord Hailsham , and then Geoffrey Lloyd ) . |
| 24 | He had been held scoreless for the first twenty-five minutes of the game but certainly went to town afterwards ! |