Example sentences of "but to [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All such changes are related not only to people 's work lives but to the decisions of ( often multinational ) house building companies ; the latter increasingly investing in ‘ up-market ’ houses and retirement homes for people who have seen the value of their home rapidly increase . |
| 2 | It is odd that this abstract term is applied , not to our lives , but to the activities of people who tend to have difficulty with abstract concepts . |
| 3 | Halevy , who had an acute eye for the ideological delusions of the British , observed that when Labour leaders looked for solutions to the problem of unemployment they turned , not to socialism , but to the traditions of liberal internationalism : |
| 4 | Five days later the snow melted , and on the morning of 11 February the second massive flood in seven months overtook them ; it was all very well for the town directory to speak in glowing terms of the River Frome teeming with trout , eels , and all manner of fine fish — but to the inhabitants of Pig Street that wretched river too often spelt disaster and despoliation . |
| 5 | But to the sounds of utter silence from the European section of the Augusta press room , he hit his tee shot at the short 12th into the water , took five and by the 15th had given up his lead . |
| 6 | When at length Isambard moved his hands to his belt it was not to the hilt of his sword , but to the buckles from which it hung . |
| 7 | The numbers were vast and this was very largely because the movies were not just appealing to sections of the masses but to the masses in general . |
| 8 | Secondly , much of the available data relate , not to women , but to the households in which they live . |
| 9 | But to the men of Kufra whose fathers or grandfathers had settled there because it was so centrally placed on trade routes , or because it was so remote from Ottoman , Italian or British control , ‘ central government ’ appeared indeed as a real force , but as one located — so to speak — in the extreme northwestern corner , in Tripoli . |
| 10 | The equal protection cases show how important formal equality becomes when it is understood to require integrity as well as bare logical consistency , when it demands fidelity not just to rules but to the theories of fairness and justice that these rules presuppose by way of justification . |
| 11 | But to the screams of excitement from the biggest crowd ever to gather in the Robert F Kennedy Memorial Stadium , over 54,000 of them , Marcio Santos set up a furious climax with a diving header . |
| 12 | But to the screams of excitement from the biggest crowd ever to gather in the Robert F Kennedy Memorial Stadium , over 54,000 of them , Marcio Santos set up a furious climax with a diving header . |
| 13 | Adverse winds carried them not to Kintail , from which they could have got within a few miles of Inverness by water , but to the shores of Loch Alsh , a sea-water inlet separating the Isle of Skye from the south-west tip of Ross and Cromarty . |
| 14 | Does he recognise that his proposals are a kick in the teeth for that devoted service and an invitation not to services that are democratically accountable to the local community , but to the spivs of the free enterprise service sector such as Mr. J. G. L. |
| 15 | This method — if it can be properly so called — is usually applied not to the full range of candidates but to the candidates of the voter 's favourite party . |
| 16 | But to the children of Gloucestershire , it 's just making a song and dance about having fun . |