Example sentences of "but the [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the stories that follow are now history , but the damage to dolphins is irreparable . |
| 2 | Since the collapse of communist rule in 1989 some improvements to the cityscape have been made , but the damage to buildings is so serious that the government has declared the city a disaster zone . |
| 3 | On LP this never sounded particularly impressive but the transfer to CD on DG ‘ Galleria ’ ( ) has blown away the sonic cobwebs to reveal a blazing treasure and a worthy comparison for his incandescent Bruckner 4 with the same orchestra ( Decca ) . |
| 4 | The campaigns in Brittany had offered a foretaste of what might be gained in loot and ransoms , but the expeditions to Aquitaine and Normandy were of much greater importance in demonstrating how much wealth might be won from war . |
| 5 | By autumn indicators pointed to a higher annual growth rate and a lower increase in inflation , but the July to September growth rate of 2.5 per cent was still the lowest since 1986 . |
| 6 | The idea was to start a volunteer counselling service for adult victims of incest and abuse , but the response to Christine 's appeal was so great that ICAIRR is now struggling to cope with the demands on its services . |
| 7 | I tried to ring , but the lines to Moscow were engaged . |
| 8 | A fly on the dressing room wall suggests Alex Miller was furious with his players ' performance but the trip to Glasgow gives them a chance to atone . |
| 9 | Kirkland claimed that vehicles , equipment , and training had all improved since he started , but the attitude to ambulancemen had not . |
| 10 | I understand your longing for England but the route to happiness lies in making the most of the good bits while planning to change the bad bits at the earliest opportunity . |
| 11 | But the return to Devon of the engine after expiry of its ten-year boiler ticket is seen as a shot in the arm for the loco-starved South Devon Railway , reliant on externally hired motive power since it came into existence two years ago . |
| 12 | But the return to opera has not by any means been a search for a lost past . |
| 13 | Another example that illustrates the need for change is the diminished opportunity to pass deterrent sentences , not just in terms of the threat to society of a particular offender , but the threat to society that is posed by the crime at large in which these people are involved . |
| 14 | Two of the dressing rooms stood empty but the door to Wardrobe had been closed . |
| 15 | But the way to peace lies in truly following Jesus . |
| 16 | But the way to safety was thus signposted . |
| 17 | Sex with me was no longer a sin but the way to salvation . |
| 18 | Frinton 's broad residential streets have names such as Third Avenue , or Fourth Avenue , but the resemblance to Manhattan is only nominal . |
| 19 | Indeed this was not disputed , but the application to Lautro of the next step in the argument was contentious . |
| 20 | The dichotomy is different , the line drawn in a different place from where Plato drew it , but the harm to education is just as great . |
| 21 | But the transition to democracy goes smoothest when military murderers are left unpunished — and unpardoned . |
| 22 | They were to he not only the routes to culture and the intellect but the means to romance and sort of sex . |
| 23 | But the letter to Ritschl ( if we take it at face value , as we presumably should ) shows that Nietzsche had as yet no thought of basing a book on these subjects , although something pertinent to " Greek music drama " or " Socrates and tragedy " would , no doubt have been among the various matters envisaged for the miscellany in the " literary history or the " new ideas and views " . |
| 24 | Today I was following not the valley path of the corpse way but the pathway to Keld that runs above Northgang Scar from which the views across to Black Hill and up to Swinner Gill are wonderful . |
| 25 | But the pathway to discovery was established and the scale on which resources were expended to make these discoveries represents a fantastic extravagance when it is compared with the few thousands of pounds available to Florey and his colleagues , and even with the subsequent development of the original penicillins in the United States . |
| 26 | But the answer to Mr. Daniel 's point is dear . |
| 27 | Down bags are usually more expensive than synthetic models but the weight to warmth ratio tends to be better and down bag can be packed very small . |
| 28 | THE most important news for the economy in the last week or so has not been Mr Lamont 's Budget , nor the Government 's travails over the Maastricht treaty , but the challenge to President 's Yeltsin 's Government in Russia . |
| 29 | Before the Fijians had scored , Townsend had essayed a daring cut , but the pass to Stark was delayed over-long , while in the second-half , before the Fijians could build on their 14-0 interval advantage , Stark was the recipient of possession in some space which he embellished by brushing off a couple of tackles , only then to run crossfield into trouble . |