Example sentences of "but [adv] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , anthropologists know that they themselves do not belong to cultures of this kind ; but rather to ones which present a jumble of themes , in which any impression of overall coherence is produced kaleidoscopically — that is to say , patterned arbitrarily with mirrors . |
| 2 | For , in yet another publication , Broken Record ( US Birch Lane Press ) , author Henry Schipper documents the manner in which the National Academy Of Recording Arts And Sciences , the organisation that sponsors America 's most prestigious music awards , has continually looked to the past , even The Beatles losing out to the Grammy gang during 1965 , when the award for ‘ Best Vocal Group ’ went not to John , Paul , George and wotsisname ( who , that year , went to Number One Stateside with ‘ I Feel Fine ’ , ‘ Eight Days A Week ’ , ‘ Ticket To Ride ’ , ‘ Help ’ and ‘ Yesterday ’ ) but rather to Nashville 's pure MOR Anita Kerr Singers , who also won in 1966 ! |
| 3 | He attributes these changes , however , not so much to the positive or negative measures of successive governments , but rather to changes in the total supply of doctors . |
| 4 | Held , granting the declarations , that it was the moment of adjudication of bankruptcy that caused the property of a bankrupt to vest in his trustee thereby causing an involuntary alienation of his property which resulted in the severance of any joint tenancy he might then be beneficially entitled to ; that the combined effect of sections 37(1) and 38 ( a ) of the Bankruptcy Act 1914 was not to vest title in the trustee retrospectively but rather to vest in the trustee when adjudication occurred title to property which was identified by reference to the property which belonged to the bankrupt at the commencement of the bankruptcy ; and that , accordingly , since the joint tenancy had not been severed before the wife 's death , on her death the husband , as survivor , became entitled to the whole beneficial interest in the properties , which on his adjudication as bankrupt vested in his trustee in bankruptcy ( post , pp. 206A , F–H , 207C ) . |
| 5 | Confining ourselves for the moment to pricing structures involving a constant per unit price , we found in section 2.2 that the socially optimal solution is not to raise all prices an equal proportion above average costs , but rather to practice Ramsey-optimal ( value-based ) pricing . |
| 6 | The second is a more subjective , less institutionalized and therefore much vaguer classification which does not normally apply to a whole text but rather to parts of it . |
| 7 | In between was the cavalry-owning class proper , who took slowly but eventually to ideas which could be described as democracy ( p. 83 ) . |
| 8 | This view was expressed forcibly but politely to students who were being prepared to teach in state schools . |
| 9 | It is relating obviously not entirely , but overwhelmingly to U S employers . |
| 10 | At the back of the fort they diverted the Jumna and laid in its place a main road so that the delicate Mughal pavilions look out , not on to the source of the Waters of Paradise , but on to Mahatma Gandhi Marg , the most noisy and polluted stretch of the Delhi Ring Road . |
| 11 | The battling visitors gained in confidence , but much to Middlesbrough 's relief , Ken Charlery pulled the ball behind Halsall . |
| 12 | He was mean to everybody in the family , but especially to Carlie . |
| 13 | But down to business … |
| 14 | O&Y says it intends disclosing more , but only to suppliers of corporate loans of more than $5 billion , and to London 's Canary Wharf project . |
| 15 | Good header on by Ormanroyd it 's gone over Speedy 's head cleared by David Phillips but only to Lewis . |
| 16 | Dr Anthony Ayles , of the Hermitage Group practice in Edinburgh , is one of several GPs who offer this service but only to patients he considers are at risk from heart disease — those with a close relative who developed coronary problems before 50 , those who smoke , have high blood pressure , are overweight , diabetic or take little exercise . |
| 17 | The special conditions contained in s15(2) of SGA 1979 , replicated in other supply contracts ( s11 of SOGIT 1973 as substituted by the CCA 1974 and ss5(1) , 10(1) of SGSA 1982 ) , do not apply to every case in which a sample is exhibited , for example in a shop , but only to sales by sample . |
| 18 | At SSC on 14th Feb , a proposal devised by SMT was tabled whereby LW would increase to £1,780 for Grade 3 and 4 staff , but only to £1,571 for all other staff . |
| 19 | No , but er , I do n't know people , it 's , it 's where people get their ideas from I think for a start , I know one time we used to sell oh a lot of erm spotlights and spotlamps , but only to people who were running discos , er now erm there are people who erm , well they , they want a , a couple in the lounge or something like that or , and er , and then of course they , there 's others who erm have them outside and light up their trees , at night . |
| 20 | This duty of an innkeeper is owed not to travellers but only to guests ; a guest is a person who has engaged a minimum of one night 's accommodation at the inn . |
| 21 | The Report observes : ‘ It is now 25 years since Mitbestimmung ( Co-determination ) was introduced in the Federal Republic of Germany ’ ; and again : ‘ As long ago as 1972 the EEC published draft proposals for a Fifth Directive on Company law , proposing employee representation on the supervisory boards of all companies in the Community with over 500 employees ’ — a rhetorical presentation that pictures the United Kingdom as dragging its reluctant feet well in the rear of a party marching briskly along the path towards a bright new future entrusted not wholly but largely to trade unions . |
| 22 | But he could find no fault with Herluin 's reaction , which displayed natural dismay and concern , but not to excess . |
| 23 | Yet when Cornwall pronounces him the new Earl of Gloucester , and orders him to seek his father out , Edmund has yet another layer of pretence at hand : Edmund 's perversion of such words as ‘ nature ’ , ‘ loyalty ’ , and ‘ blood ’ is grimly evident to us , but not to Cornwall — who may not understand those terms , in any case — and who now puts himself into the position of an adopted father to Edmund : ‘ I will lay trust upon thee ; and thou shalt find a dearer father in my love ’ ( 24f . ) . |
| 24 | You may also have to state facts which are obvious to you , but not to cousins who have not seen the family for several years . |
| 25 | One method , he said , ‘ would allow you to change the code of access such that the phone line is left open to local or regional calls but not to Teletel . ’ |
| 26 | Then Harriet spoke , but not to Midnight . |
| 27 | Time allowed them to meet , but not to part . |
| 28 | The food is nouvelle , but not to starvation point , and of a consistently high quality . |
| 29 | Pardons went also to 64 left-wing guerrillas , but not to Mario Firmenich , founder of the Peronist guerrilla group , Montoneros , who is serving 30 years for murder . |
| 30 | He is entitled to protect both of these : see Morris ( Herbert ) and Attwood v Lamont [ 1920 ] 3 KB 571. 3.1 The employer 's special trade connections The employer is entitled only to protect his business against use of his special trade connections by others but not to protection from competition from his former employee : see the Morris ( Herbert ) case . |