Example sentences of "but [adv] [prep] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This applies not only while out on contract but also on returning to the home country . |
| 2 | Even here , however , the separate heading is worth preserving , since modern style-studies can and do content themselves with the mere description of distinctive linguistic patterns , abstaining not only from relating them to external factors such as authors or literary movements , but also from attributing to them any specific literary function . |
| 3 | But far from contributing to meaningful employment for women , it has created yet another series of bad jobs . |
| 4 | Luke 's face tightened , but instead of reacting to the taunt , he pursued his earlier accusation . |
| 5 | But instead of sticking to this problem , which is interesting in itself , Yockey makes wild extrapolations in a futile attempt to show how the classical concept of information can be applied to problems in generating information . |
| 6 | But instead of crashing to the ground , I was caught , by my trousers , on a pin in her clothes . |
| 7 | The weather was appalling but instead of retreating to England , Amelia and her companion decided to go to Egypt . |
| 8 | But instead of returning to the trees and swinging happily ever after , the orangs got caught up in web of conservation politics . |
| 9 | The BMC is to continue to have a training officer ( presently Iain Peter ) who will continue to do what he did before , but instead of answering to a neutered committee , training decisions are now to be made by a BMC vice president — probably John Porter . |
| 10 | It resists the will of a tyrant wholeheartedly but never by resorting to hatred or violence . |
| 11 | This may not be true , but certainly in listening to conversational English one does encounter a very large number of these and they do seem to the native speaker to have some perhaps indefinable ‘ feel ’ of something negative present in the background , as suggested above , on p. 139 ) . |