Example sentences of "but [vb -s] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This quaint description is not a manifestation of that well-known British chauvinism and insularity , but refers to an odd habit the human animal has of inserting bits and pieces of various shapes and sizes into different holes and orifices . |
| 2 | The quotation has nothing to do with the coming of the Messiah but refers to the destruction of the northern kingdom of Israel by Assyria in 721 BC . |
| 3 | I have taken a particular reading of the work of both Lévi-Strauss and Barthes that emphasizes the influence of structuralist linguistics but points to the progression of these writers ' ‘ structuralism ’ away from linguistic analysis . |
| 4 | The world of shadow is the condition of human knowledge , and imagination deals in the meanings inherent in it but points to the light beyond where it will no longer be of use : |
| 5 | This does not amount to a rejection of Marx but points to an absence in his work and leaves Habermas free to retain a basically Marxist account of the forces of production and at the same time develop a theory of social relations of communicative production . |
| 6 | This is too harsh , but points to an important ambiguity in Foucault 's work : the neologisms and allusive argument conceal an approximation to older theoretical traditions . |
| 7 | He succeeds brilliantly in finding a style of speech which is neither archaic nor too modern ( apart from the odd anachronism like cash-flow ) but belongs to a timeless tradition of broad , popular comedy , like Ayckbourn with clogs on . |
| 8 | Time can be a very real problem but answers to the questionnaire suggested that it was not an absolute impediment . |
| 9 | This has no effect on the manufacturer 's price , which is determined solely by c m , but leads to a rise in the retail price . |
| 10 | And maybe the external factor interacts with the immune system and the immune system acting , over zealously as it were , not only responds to the invader , but leads to a bystander damage of the nervous system in the process . |
| 11 | This is part of the well-known process of gentrification of inner city working-class areas that improves the quality of housing but leads to the displacement of working-class residents by professional and other high-paid groups . |
| 12 | I 'm not just referring to the kind that Pinder indulged in , but trips to the bathroom , that sort of thing . |
| 13 | 1 Mrs Simmons leaves home at 1 p.m. but travels to the market at 60km per hour . |
| 14 | You want to provide material which is sufficiently different , not the same that 's there , but conforms to the house style , conforms to the format and so forth , but is sufficiently different and new , that it 's actually worth printing . |
| 15 | things like this , but regards to the fact that when , when something is sold to somebody right , erm , and then a , and , and the person who 's selling it receives the money , I mean the person the police ca n't do nothing at all about it unless fraud comes into it |
| 16 | The need for the interpreter to search actively for a context in which the deictic references can be successfully disambiguated is not a peculiarly literary phenomenon , but applies to a wide variety of language uses . |
| 17 | It throws the viewer off balance but speaks to the part of each person that is capable , potent and dignified . |
| 18 | The working class culture of work is not socially dominant — but relates to the numerical majority of people . |
| 19 | The real issue over time I actually think is affordability of housing which relates directly , not to some sort of magic dogma of any sort but relates to the supply of housing , the supply of housing both in the public and in the private sector and it is the supply side of housing where this government has fallen down . |
| 20 | But repairs to the Great Victoria Street theatre after the IRA 's bomb blast in December 1991 , ruled the production out . |
| 21 | The -300 Sal construct contains the same -300bp promoter deletion , but extends to a SalI site which is 3.1kb downstream of the RI site in exon IV . |
| 22 | Have you had any trouble , I mean , I mean I do n't know if you 've seen erm but does to a deterrent and there 's trouble with motorbikes on the walks , have you found any trouble with peo |
| 23 | When the pencil runs over the wet surface , the colour bursts and runs slightly , giving an out-of-focus effect , but returns to a crisp line on meeting the dry paper . |
| 24 | When the pencil runs over the wet surface , the colour bursts and runs slightly , giving an out-of-focus effect , but returns to a crisp line on meeting the dry paper . |
| 25 | In unstimulated cells , PLC- γ 1 is largely cytosolic but translocates to the membrane as its SH2 domain binds to the activated receptor ( Box 2 ) . |