Example sentences of "but is [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the Intel side , the PCE-5S Pentium machine will be shown : it is currently running at 50MHz , but is eventually intended to be a 66MHz machine — all being well at Intel Corp . |
| 2 | , Richard ( fl. 1572–1596 ) , navigator and privateer , claimed to have been born at Buckhurst , Essex , but is generally referred to as ‘ of Weymouth ’ . |
| 3 | This is one of the big three timber importers in the UK , but is best known to the public for its 191 Jewson outlets catering to the small jobbing builder . |
| 4 | the different principle of reducing the scope of capital punishment to the minimum necessary for that preservation of law and order , and confining it to those forms of murder for which it is not only a particularly necessary , but is also believed to be a particularly effective , deterrent . |
| 5 | We suggest , however , that the tiredness experienced by young couples in the first months of a baby 's life is not just the result of broken nights , change of role , anxiety as to the well-being of so small and vulnerable a being , and doubts about being a good enough parent , but is also related to the strain of exercising a defence against envy of the baby to whom so much care and comfort is offered . |
| 6 | Nitrous oxide , commonly known as laughing gas and once used as a dental anaesthetic , is a natural product of biological processes in soils and water but is also emitted to the atmosphere by fossil-fuel burning , soil disturbance , the application of nitrogen based fertilizers , biomass burning and animal and human wastes . |
| 7 | In another room is ‘ Christ carrying the cross ’ from the Scuola di San Rocco , which was given to Titian at the Palazzo Ducale a couple of years ago , but is here assigned to Giorgione . |
| 8 | Spines — This expression has been used by various writers with considerable latitude but is here confined to outgrowths of the cuticle which are more or less thorn-like in form . |
| 9 | Simon Conway Morris of Cambridge University , who played a big part in the first reinterpretation of the Burgess animals , thinks Wiwaxia has no living relatives , but is probably related to other fossils he and his colleagues have found in northern Greenland . |
| 10 | In the Ardennes and northern France it is conventionally identified with the Grande Faille du Midi , which has other names further east , but is conveniently referred to collectively as the Midi Overthrust ( Bless el al . |
| 11 | The piccolo is very rarely used completely ‘ solo ’ , but is much used to double other woodwind instruments at the octave or double octave above . |
| 12 | Diarrhoea after cholecystectomy is a well recognised factor but is usually considered to be rather rare and to be caused sometimes by bile acid malabsorption of obscure origin . |
| 13 | The inward investment is will continue to be a source of new jobs and it is encouraged as a as making a contribution to new jobs , but is never going to be a major contributor to new job growth . |
| 14 | The 25-year-old has failed to score in 14 appearances , but is still preferred to the £1.5m ex-Glasgow Rangers striker . |
| 15 | ( This perhaps indicates that it was tactically inept in this case for the plaintiffs to seek to persuade the court that the whole package of information was confidential. ) 5 Whether additional protection should be afforded to an employer where the former employee is not seeking to earn his living by making use of the body of skill , knowledge and experience which he has acquired in the course of his career , but is merely selling to a third party information which he acquired in confidence in the course of his former employment Goulding J drew no such distinction . |
| 16 | However , unlike the pipette technique , this method is not confined to analysis of silts and clays , but is commonly applied to the sand fraction of the sediments . |
| 17 | Lamb is another minor casualty ; he is all right to bat , but he can only throw in underarm at the moment because of a niggle , which at first was thought to be a reaction to an inoculation , but is now believed to be a minor ligament problem . |
| 18 | Her sister , Khieu Ponnary , is married to Pol Pot , and was influential in the 1975 government , but is now understood to be confined to hospital because of mental illness . |
| 19 | The landmark structure has been out of action for two years but is now expected to be back in service in July . |
| 20 | Also , as you probably know , mortgage interest relief is no longer allowed for higher rate tax but is now restricted to the basic rate of 25 per cent — so the savings are smaller than before for those in a high income bracket . |
| 21 | According to Earth Report ( 1988 ) , some 100 million t of nutrient-rich silt were deposited annually in the pre-Aswan period but is now reduced to just a few tomes per year , necessitating extensive fertiliser use at considerable cost and , presumably , inviting long-term eutrophication problems that characterise many developing countries ( section 6.3.1 ) . |
| 22 | It is not making a profit , but is now contributing to its operating costs . |
| 23 | It is not making a profit , but is now contributing to its operating costs . |
| 24 | " The roof did not actually leak very much before it was taken in hand to be repaired : but is now reported to be in need of more repairs . " |
| 25 | 88Open test technology verifies that systems and applications conform to source , binary and object standards , but is currently confined to software for Motorola 88000-based systems . |
| 26 | This theory of ideology introduces a distorting dynamic in the process of knowledge that is not due to mistakes or faulty thinking but is systematically related to the social and material relations of society . |