Example sentences of "but [v-ing] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By reporting the character ’ s thoughts in the third person , past tense , as in traditional narrative , but keeping to vocabulary appropriate to the character , and omitting some or all of the tags that normally introduce reported speech ( like ‘ he thought ’ , ‘ she wondered ’ , etc. ) an effect of intimate access to the character 's inner self is produced , without relinquishing the task of narrating to the character entirely , as in the pseudo-autobiography or interior monologue . |
| 2 | If this is correct Rolle was putting some distance between himself and his father but returning to territory known in childhood . |
| 3 | In view of the fact that Modernists are still being blamed for the destruction of civilisation , this seems like a good question , but according to DOCOMOMO it is not . |
| 4 | This has now been cut from to 3% 6.7% , but according to chairman Mike Tilbrook , the remaining holding ‘ continues to show a useful paper profit ’ . |
| 5 | But according to chairman D J Dace , without exchange rate variations , sales would actually have fallen from £2.7m to £54.6m . |
| 6 | But according to eqn ( A.7 ) unc solution of eqn ( 4.3 ) may be recognized as being given by |
| 7 | What caused the accident remains a mystery , although a cut in on of the rear tyres was discovered over a week later , but according to Lotus is was impossible to be categoric as to the real cause . |
| 8 | As a Muslim woman from Jhelum explained to me , in Islam a man can marry four times but according to Islam it is his duty to look after each of his wives and treat them honourably . |
| 9 | Boredom is often used as an excuse but according to sex specialist Dr Otto Kernberg it 's just a cover up for more complex reasons . |
| 10 | But according to insurance brokers Probyn thought this was n't enough . |
| 11 | A prior , and misleading , assumption that the levels of direct taxation in Britain were very high has been eroded as levels of direct taxation have progressively been reduced in the 1980s , whilst the rates of indirect taxation — which are paid on goods and services and are therefore not levied according to income but according to expenditure — have increased . |
| 12 | But according to Money Management 's annual survey of with-profits policies , actual cash payouts after that time averaged only £1,173 in 1992 . |
| 13 | But according to Brute : ‘ The scene is depicting a consenting couple making love on a deserted beach while in the distance a nuclear bomb is exploding . |
| 14 | But according to Brute : ‘ The scene is depicting a consenting couple making love on a deserted beach while in the distance a nuclear bomb is exploding . |
| 15 | If I select MS-DOS Shell and attempt to delete the unwanted directories , I get the message : ‘ You can not delete a non-empty directory … ’ but according to MS-DOS Shell the specified directory states : ‘ No files match file specifier . ’ |
| 16 | Therefore , the scribes did not spell ‘ at will ’ , but according to variable ( and historically mixed ) conventions . |
| 17 | At the time of Domesday the manor was not unlike a small kingdom or a dominion within which the lord was a superior over subjects of different ranks , his power though being not absolute but according to custom and law . |
| 18 | That 's the impression I 've been under but according to form you can do what you bloody want . |
| 19 | But according to research released yesterday , the facts do n't quite fit the script . |
| 20 | When Community rules are thus applied by the national courts , they fall to be interpreted , not according to domestic canons of construction , but according to Community methods of interpretation . |
| 21 | It should be an inconvenience which ‘ materially interferes with the ordinary comfort of human existence , not merely according to elegant or dainty modes and habits of living , but according to plain and sober and simple notions among the English people ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ PowerSystems does n't currently handle differences like Spain 's extra rate VAT ’ , but according to Omicron 's Neville Merritt , ‘ the company is currently in the process of adding in all of the regulations recommended by Customs and Excise for 1993 . ’ |
| 23 | Charles , who had a taste for mechanical devices , commissioned Gionallo Torriano of Cremona to repair it , but owing to corrosion he found that this was impossible and he agreed to make a similar instrument . |
| 24 | On the 6th S/L W M Kynock took the veteran Lancaster to Ijmuiden in Holland , but owing to cloud cover over the target , the Master Bomber turned back Sugar and the rest of the Lancaster force and no attack was made . |
| 25 | Again this might not always be possible , but going to bed and getting up earlier are not likely to intrude too much upon your normal working life . |
| 26 | On the other hand , as we have changed to electricity , because of the inefficiency of the electricity generating process this has reflected an increase in the primary fuel consumption by the nation for domestic purposes , and this is true of most western countries that the consumption in the home has not increased , but changing to electricity increasingly has led to burning more oil and coal nationally to produce this constant home demand . |