Example sentences of "but [to-vb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prime aim of the Marriott fellowship is not to turn chemists into budding journalists , but to give them the chance to see some of the opportunities available in scientific publishing without committing themselves . |
| 2 | Now I do n't think that 's right , fair or democratic and if we 've shied away from it for years handling this issue and now we 're in the position where this house has total responsibility for the thirty thousand citizens in total of Gibralt it 's not the electorate , the total population , thirty thousand and we continued to deny them vote yet they are citizens of the European union under our own legislation and accepted as such by the European parliament and it is wholly wrong Mr Deputy Speaker that the boundaries that we 're discussing in this bill were not drawn so that and it could easily have been done , that we could have incorporated the twenty odd thousand European union citizens of Gibraltar who do wish to be part of Spain and wo n't be for fifty years or more until it 's been a democracy that long , but to give them the right to vote . |
| 3 | Emor was a lot of things , but to call it a game was doing it an injustice . |
| 4 | It is also possible , also without such misuse , not to call the second member an effect , but to call it a nomic correlate instead , as we have . |
| 5 | But to ascertain what the Algerian people wanted and what the French people would accept was bound to be a gradual process . |
| 6 | Mohamed Ali 's aims were not just to protect Egypt but to make her an expansionist power in the Eastern Mediterranean . |
| 7 | There was nothing for it but to tell her the truth . |
| 8 | But to tell her the truth ? |
| 9 | I suppose this was partly to do with the heat — it is very hot here at present — but to tell you the truth I do n't remember very much about it . |
| 10 | Actually he majored in Phys Ed , but to tell you the truth , Rickie was always a slow learner . |
| 11 | " But to tell you the truth , I sometimes feel like clearing out of this warren altogether . |
| 12 | This publicity is a recent development , but to tell you the truth , when I was a teenager date rape was simply a fact of life . |