Example sentences of "but [adv prt] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But down to business … |
| 3 | This legislation had been hailed as a powerful weapon with which to seize drug barons ' fortunes but up to May last year police and Customs investigators had only been able to confiscate £11 million . |
| 4 | Those who bought the Cabinet Cyclopedia therefore got a rather odd view of zoology , conservative in its types and symbols but up to date in its appreciation of J. V. Thompson 's work , and rarely dull . |
| 5 | Complex partial seizures usually arise from the temporal lobe , but up to 30% may arise from other sites , in particular the frontal lobe . |
| 6 | Thalassiothrix longissima ( characterized by long straight to twisted cells , only 1.5–5μm wide but up to 4mm long ) is described as a cosmopolitan species with a distribution ranging from the Southern Ocean to the North Pacific , North Atlantic and the Norwegian Sea . |
| 7 | None are as good as conventional culture , and though their specificity is good the sensitivity is relatively poor ( up to 60% in total but up to 90% in heavy carriage ) . |
| 8 | The individual frustules in this example are between 3 and 5μm wide but up to 3mm long . |
| 9 | He was looking neither to the right nor the left but out to sea , where a round ship was coming in from the south-east , her sails shuddering , her course designed to intersect with the Genoese just outside the harbour . |
| 10 | But back to Bodytalk , whose convention happened to be at the Metropole , next to Labour 's conference hotel . |
| 11 | They turn not to the Reed Sea , but back to plans for invasion . |
| 12 | But back to Mrs Price . |
| 13 | But back to Worcestershire , where Moody got two early Championship hundreds in a summer so far restricted for him by shin and ankle-ligament problems : where the worries over Dilley 's Achilles tendon and knee wo n't go away ; where Hick 's form remains enigmatic ; where left-hander Adam Seymour , the Millfield boy who switched from Essex — at appeared an astute and logical career move for him — has so far failed to make an impact on the banks of the Severn . |
| 14 | But back to Charlie and those gossipy tales about the steamy scenes that had been filmed behind closed doors : ‘ There 's no running around naked — it 's not a porno film . |
| 15 | But back to Cantona . |