Example sentences of "a [noun sg] but [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To note the work done by course team/module leaders in beginning to address ‘ enterprise skills ’ within a course but to note that further work would be required to be done . |
| 2 | On the other hand , there are cases in which the existence of an alternative remedy seems not to have given rise to a discretion to refuse a remedy but to have operated as an absolute bar to the award of a judicial remedy . |
| 3 | ‘ I thought she might give us a mention but to get a personal donation like this is more than we could ever have hoped for . ’ |
| 4 | Irvine had been killed , not preparing for a piss but to carry out the same amorous duties I had . |
| 5 | This rationalism ( I use the word here in a much wider sense than suggested by ‘ rationalism ’ as opposed to ‘ empiricism ’ ) attempts not only to use reason as a tool but to go further and make reason guarantee itself . |
| 6 | Vogue assured its readers that ‘ everyone goes cruising and the trouble is not to find a cruise but to choose from the numberless , almost equally alluring cruises that are most suited to one 's particular fancy ’ . |
| 7 | Yeah , my objective was not actually to start a debate but to give you some indication of where we were going to go this afternoon . |
| 8 | it 's one thing being in a hospital but to take her somewhere |
| 9 | If the duty is framed in subjective terms , as we have seen , the practical effect is not to impose a duty but to confer a discretion and hence a management which is not disposed to sacrifice profits ( or otherwise depart from its chosen course ) in order to advance other interests will not be compelled to alter its behaviour . |
| 10 | Like some of your more illustrious colleagues ( Ron Atkinson , Graham Taylor , etc. ) , you have a tendency to say a lot but to say nothing at the same time . |
| 11 | If you think about this it 's based on the four carbon structure so you 've got ta have a few in the name there is a carbon carbon double bond so the basic structure we 've got is the Butane but as there is more than one position you could have that carbon carbon double bond now , to indicate this position and so this one would be called futes it would normally be a butane but to indicate it 's position bute one E and again you 're taking the lowest number so instead of it being a bute three , it 's a bute one E you start at the appropriate . |
| 12 | The new law will carry a sentence which could average two years in jail , ‘ designed not just to be a deterrent but to instil new respect for the rule of law ’ . |
| 13 | And remember , the aim here is not to turn you into a super-mathematician but to accustom you to thinking somewhat differently to the way you were taught at school and thereby to make things easier for yourself . |
| 14 | Since there are advantages both in storing records singly and in using large buckets , one solution is to randomize to a track but to store records singly in CKD format . |