Example sentences of "but to [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is due not just to its comparatively high transport costs but to its low density . |
| 2 | Hutcheon 1977 and Wagstaff 1984 ) , in the name of a radically different literary project , wherein the text draws attention not to the outside world , but to its own procedures . |
| 3 | It gives expression not to a technical aspect of the division of labour but to its social aspect . |
| 4 | For Mary it resulted not only in domestic upheaval , leading to the beginning of the break-up of her marriage , but to her early death . |
| 5 | It is well known that the Princess wanted ‘ out ’ of the Royal Family , but to her fellow passengers it was also clear she is only now coming to terms with the fact that she really is out — and quite alone . |
| 6 | But to her untold relief he seemed preoccupied and obviously had n't noticed . |
| 7 | I know , but it 's too dear , I looked at that and thought it would be nice to have your name on a brick , but to me twenty pound , if they made it cheaper more people would buy it would n't they ? , what building is it ? |
| 8 | Human beings do not respond to what is there ( or what is real ) but to their filtered version of what is there , that is , what they perceive to be the case . |
| 9 | The irony in the situation is that the real double standard involved in policing the area is not applied to white youth , but to their black counterparts . |
| 10 | Their lives have been devoted to the welfare of the next generation — not , it is true , to their direct descendants , but to their younger brothers and sisters and therefore potentially to their nephews and nieces . |
| 11 | ‘ UK businesses now have a great opportunity in markets both at home and abroad , thanks not just to pound 's depreciation but to their own efficiency gains , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 12 | But to my overwhelming relief , John threw back his head in one of his gargantuan laughs . |
| 13 | But to my Western eyes , children here are remarkably un-spoilt . |
| 14 | Ways of trying to increase your bargaining power include delaying negotiations or confrontation until you are in a stronger position , initiating action in another area which raises the costs to your opponent if he disagrees with your offer , linking the issue under discussion with much wider issues which do not seem of much importance at first sight to your opponent but which may be to his long-term disadvantage but to your long-term advantage which will compensate for your short-term loss . |
| 15 | ‘ You should be ashamed to make advances to any man — but to your own brother-in-law is too much . |
| 16 | The religious implications of this are clear ; but to our present purpose we notice that the vagrants and the beggars lead us away from ‘ economic man ’ towards other kinds of existence . |
| 17 | When we visited the big open-air retail market in the upper town at Montpellier , there was an ordinary enough little charcuterie-épicerie stall offering the ingredients of what might be called the small change of French cookery , but to our English eyes it looked particularly inviting and interesting . |
| 18 | But to his scholarly readers in Carolingian Europe that probably only served to emphasize the lesson that the interests of good kings and a flourishing church were closely intertwined . |
| 19 | Mr Latimer , a solicitor with offices in Priestgate ( the firm is still there ) , was a leading Temp ( this , as regular Echo Memories readers will know , does not refer to the transitory nature of his position but to his teetotal outlook ) . |
| 20 | If he turned and looked at her , she might have to give a straight reply , but to his narrow back , which could have been the back of a much younger man , she began to tease , in the way that she had learned so many of her new friends liked , when they made similar inquiries too , like the painter who 'd lain on her bed and asked her earnestly if she 'd ever experienced simultaneous orgasm , or the musician who 'd volunteered he 'd show her a ‘ perversion ’ he was sure nobody would have demonstrated to her before , and began nuzzling between her legs . |
| 21 | The castle , the seat of the Duke of Norfolk , is not home to the Duke — he lives near Henley-on-Thames — but to his eldest son and heir , the Earl of Arundel , 36 , who says : ‘ I might look in while they 're here . |
| 22 | Sam thought the nails in her finger and thumb were going to meet each other through the flesh of his shoulder , but to his enormous relief , she let go . |
| 23 | But to his enormous relief the story never got out . |
| 24 | But to his unfortunate son and daughter ( William Armstrong and Margo Gunn ) he seems to ‘ make Shylock look like Dr. Barnardo ’ as he keeps them in penury with each request for money causing him acute physical pain . |
| 25 | This man from Mountain Ash pointed him not only towards the theatre but to his own Olympus of ambition — the University of Oxford of which , in those days , a miner 's son could not even afford to dream . |
| 26 | There would be a debate on Europe , a topic which tended to divide the Party , and it was rumoured that Norman Tebbitt , known to his friends as ‘ The Earl of Essex ’ — a reference not only to his place of origin , but to his courtier-like qualities — would be speaking . |