Example sentences of "but [to-vb] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to go to a strange woman and ask her … what would she have to ask her ? |
| 2 | But to go to the other extreme and elevate people suffering from such abnormalities into a norm for society not only threatens society but is dangerous to the individuals themselves , since it excludes them from the consideration of help and treatment . |
| 3 | He had tried to hide his fears from his poor wife and gone down to his warehouse where another message had been awaiting him : he was not to return home , the short letter instructed , but to go to the House of the Crutched Friars where his anxieties would be resolved . |
| 4 | The car 's just a practical thing to me , I mean I like to drive around in comfort , everybody likes a nice car , I 'm not saying that , but to go to the extreme of spending what would say , seventy or eighty thousand pounds on a Porsche , I 'd have to be really , really rich before I would consider the luxury of having a Porsche . |
| 5 | But to revert to the subject of getting information about police work , the next most accessible source after the books of the police procedural writers is , of course , television . |
| 6 | Green realized he was better with the pencil than writing but made his excuse ‘ were his information for the satisfaction of an individual only , he would prefer the former as a vehicle for information , but to give to the public a numerous series of explanations all cloathed in bodily forms ; besides time and other minor considerations , it is necessary to consult the copper smith , the printer , and the paper merchant . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ What we have sought to do ’ , claims Francis speaking for the organisers of the exhibition , ‘ is not to reconstruct time past but to expose to the light things that have run the risk of acquiring the patina of nostalgia and the glamour of neglect . ’ |
| 8 | Stepson of a rabbi and product of a broken home , Laszlo was brought up in an orphanage , and it is clear that from a very early age this intense , obstinate man sought not only to bring order to his own life but to control to an unprecedented degree the environment of his future family . |
| 9 | Our pH 16 values are normally 5 to 9 ; I look upon anything above pH 11½ to be bad — that 's from my experience in the laboratory that to get to a pH of 11 is easily done but to get to a pH of 12 you need a dam sight more alkali . |
| 10 | I suppose well my children would say my answer to everything is to say to them breathe , you know , and erm you know just do very simple relaxation if nothing else , and then that allows you maybe to start looking at other things , but to get to the state where you can begin to look at things without the fears and emotions getting in the way . |
| 11 | ‘ It is especially useful for them to have someone else at the surgery , not only for reassurance but to add to the discussion , ’ he explains . |
| 12 | Cyprio are also aware of this and market a similar brush ( only the colours and the fact that Black Knight has ‘ hooks ’ where Cyprio has loops , differ ) but to add to the potential for biological filtration with their denser crimped bristle Bio-brushes . |
| 13 | What the defendants had done , was not to enhance the risk that the known factors would lead to blindness , but to add to the list of factors which might lead to blindness . |
| 14 | I want the City Hall to stop being a drab place but to ring to the laughter and joy of young people , so let let's change the image that we are creating . |
| 15 | ‘ But to return to the baby . |
| 16 | ‘ All right , but to return to the point . |
| 17 | But to return to the composition of foregrounds , there are not instructions about man and animals . |
| 18 | But to return to the more practical matters of the organisation of AIB . |
| 19 | But to return to the run of the mill accident , the team will be occupied on average for about a week following which they will report back to the Chief Inspector . |
| 20 | But to return to the initial arrival at the accident site , what is the operational investigator looking for ? |
| 21 | But to return to the Turkish DC-10 . |
| 22 | But to return to the old bee-keeper : |
| 23 | But to return to the question with which I began the discussion of LTP , is it really a model for long-term changes in the nervous system , or is it something more , a mechanism for memory itself ? |
| 24 | But to move to the other extreme and regard it as some kind of waste product was to endorse bourgeois correctionalism and , worse still , to acknowledge that the forces that were supposed to produce socialist consciousness could also produce something quite different . |
| 25 | And this is of course , as if I agree with the view that you expressed yesterday in a general context , although it was made specifically then in relation to one village , any recommendation I make in relation to that village , if it is based on the general principle , must apply by analogy also to Skelton , and I would have little choice but to recommend to the councils that they may wish or indeed they should , reconsider this question of washing-over or insetting elsewhere . |