Example sentences of "but [vb past] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a square , prefabricated building , none too appropriate to the site , but banished to the least obtrusive position , behind the entrance kiosk . |
| 2 | Tom 's mother was highly critical of the way the mainstream school was handling him but agreed to the assessment because she felt it might help him . |
| 3 | The poster at the end of the tunnel was so large and so perfectly lit that it seemed to O , looking up at it suddenly , that the tunnel did not end in a wall , in fact did not end at all , but led to the green fields of France . |
| 4 | Heart experts never tire of pointing out that Winston Churchill started life as a frail premature baby , went on to smoke , drink heavily and eat to the point of obesity , but lived to a great age , whereas Nathan Pritikin , inventor of the Pritikin diet , died a premature death despite being obsessed with health . |
| 5 | Also using a rudder control but coupled to a spreader bar in the bridle , was the Target kite developed by Paul Garber assisted by Lloyd Reicher and Stanley Potter.This was a kite for the specific purpose of training small calibre gunners and on the Eddy-shaped sail , an outline of the Japanese Zero fighter appeared in silhouette . |
| 6 | This shows the technique behind the ringing open string scale fingerings that we looked at last month , but applied to a short musical piece . |
| 7 | Section 24(5) of the Partnership Act ( see above ) follows logically from the liability of all partners for the acts and omissions of their co-partners in the name of the firm , but applied to a firm of any size this simple principle overlooks the practical impossibility of literal compliance . |
| 8 | We did not claim that there had been any cases of poisoning in Britain , but referred to the numerous American cases ( FDA Drug Bulletin 1977 , vol 7 , p 26 ; New England Journal of Medicine 1979 , vol 300 , p 238 ) . |
| 9 | Kurdish insurgent activity was not confined to Iraq and Iran but contributed to the atmosphere of insecurity that prevailed in Turkey before the military coup in 1980 . |
| 10 | At a demonstration on 30 September 1899 , at Stanford Hall near Market Harborough , he flew Hawk , but crashed to the ground . |
| 11 | It had been a heady day when she noticed the photograph no longer in a place of honour , on the chest of drawers , but moved to a shelf where it could hardly be seen , and then face down , and then in the bottom of a drawer . |
| 12 | He was then taken in by a Lutheran pastor in Lobetal north of Berlin but moved to a government guest house in late March because of local opposition to his presence . |
| 13 | Pigeons used to the northern hemisphere but moved to the southern hemisphere likewise orient with the predicted 180° error at noon . |
| 14 | The son of a dentist in Glasgow , he started farming in 1920 at Carneil , Dunfermline , but moved to the Borders in 1948 to take over the tenancy of the 1860-acre farm of Cessford . |
| 15 | Carbon dioxide will be the supreme test of commitment and anti-pollution technology , but , as has been noted before , it is so omnipresent , its natural cycle so great and its sources and sinks so difficult to determine accurately ( one assessment in early 1990 downgraded the amount mopped up by the oceans by 50 per cent but came to no firm conclusion about where the unaccounted for remainder went ) , so closely linked with economic growth and its man-made sources so hard and expensive to restrain that it is difficult to imagine a protocol which will be globally effective . |
| 16 | She fell over several times , but came to no harm in the soft , forgiving snow . |
| 17 | His knee problems began three weeks ago , but came to a head on Wednesday when he was forced to pull out of a friendly for Juventus against Second Division side Spal , after he broke down during the warm-up . |
| 18 | Once , he galloped straight towards them but came to a stop a few yards away , rearing on his hind legs before continuing his wild circling . |
| 19 | Both of us nearly ended up blasting each other but came to a reasonable compromise instead — which is the true story of our lives . |
| 20 | In Elders IXL/Allied Lyons ( 1986 ) the MMC concerned itself with the method by which Elders ' bid was to be financed , but came to the view that the issue of leveraged bids was not one on which it should pronounce . |
| 21 | No 6888 was built as C-47A-1 by Douglas at Oklahoma City as 42–92320 , but diverted to the RAF , becoming Dakota III FZ572 and was taken on charge at Nassau in December 1943 , joining the SAAF as 6821 the following month and served with 5 Wing ( 28 and 44 Squadrons ) until joining SAA as ZS-BXF in August 1948 . |
| 22 | She returned silent from that communion , but roused to the dinner that Abul , Diniz and Nicholas spread in her chamber . |
| 23 | Clarkson himself , his wife and old associates such as William Smith and Henry Brougham did not rest on the charge of sectarian and party spirit but reverted to the earlier image of the antislavery movement as effectively integrating the diverse roles of individuals and groups into a successful unity . |
| 24 | The Prince did n't even wait for an answer but turned to a small table beside him , slopped two goblets full of wine , rose and thrust them at his unwanted guests . |
| 25 | In 1991 , for example , Fareed Armaly and Christian Philipp Muller cloned the banal façade of the building and relocated it full scale at the edge of a forest : ‘ Fassade Galerie Nagel 1:1 ’ showed the same , faceless , empty apartment building but joined to a work belonging to Munich art dealer , Hanns Daxer and his wife ( to which ‘ Fassade ’ now also belongs ) . |
| 26 | he moved to Swindon but returned to a pub in Surrey . |
| 27 | Hunold was not executed , as we might expect , but returned to the obscurity of his monastic life . |
| 28 | Kapil Dev was omitted from the following Test as a disciplinary measure , but returned to the side immediately afterwards and has been ever-present ever since . |
| 29 | To Freud it was , therefore , a surprising fact that these patients did not dream of being cured of their neurosis , but returned to the original painful situation . |
| 30 | Quelch resigned from the editorship in 1889 in order to work full-time for the New Unionism , but returned to the editor 's chair in 1891 and remained editor until his death . |