Example sentences of "but [noun] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we move from the material world of technology and physical experience to the metaphysical world of moral ideas and the imagination we find that there is enormous discrepancy about what may be considered abnormal in different circumstances , but attitudes to the abnormal are always ambivalent . |
| 2 | Then , slowly at first , but building to an almost military rhythm , the stamp of feet on wooden boards . |
| 3 | But opponents to the plan say the ban would be just unnecessary legislation and an infringement of freedom . |
| 4 | Students apply for entry to an honours degree , but admission to the honours years depends on performance in the first part of the course . |
| 5 | In five other cases a client was at home but admission to an old people 's home was already being organised so the development officer was unable to intervene ( though in three of these cases she said she would have been able to provide home support ) . |
| 6 | But thanks to a team of pioneering transplant surgeons in America , Laura can look forward to a happy life . |
| 7 | Red Pandas are known for being very choosy but thanks to an international stud agency , the animal worlds equivalent of Blind Date , Mansolu abnd Tongfei were brought together at The Cotswold Wildlife Park at Burford in Oxfordshire . |
| 8 | But thanks to the ingenuity of Edward Adeane , who planned it all , no one found them . |
| 9 | This was not so in 1946 , but thanks to the blatancy of Soviet hostility , to the efforts of Churchill and Ernest |
| 10 | If Labour had won the election , it would have abolished the Broadcasting Standards Council , but thanks to the Conservative victory , the BSC has been saved for the nation . |
| 11 | Neither the man nor his union could have pursued the case alone , but thanks to the insurance he eventually collected £22,500 compensation . |
| 12 | But thanks to the newspapers , now circulating millions of copies in a population over 80 per cent literate , birth control was ‘ brought onto every Englishman 's breakfast table ’ ( Banks and Banks 1954 ) . |
| 13 | I was pretty well broke by then , but thanks to the good offices of Msgr John Esseff , they were taken in by the Sisters of Charity , the Most Reverend Mother Teresa 's order , who hid them out in a convent in Spain . |
| 14 | Old Saul was the culprit , Old Saul had gone down in our history and my personal mythology as the Castraitor , but thanks to the little creatures who flew the creek I had him in my power now . |
| 15 | He might have the advantage of size and strength , but thanks to the martial arts classes she 'd taken as regularly as she could over the past few years , she had a few tricks of her own up her sleeve . |
| 16 | The lambing season can be frought with difficulty , but thanks to the lambing bank there 's a happy ending for at least some orphans . |
| 17 | But thanks to the transplant that will now be a relatively normal life . |
| 18 | But thanks to the efforts of a group of dedicated train buffs it was restored to its original beauty . |
| 19 | There had to be a variation in our sorting programme this year , but thanks to the positive thinking of our Fabric Convenor and the kindness of Messrs. Alfred McAlpine we had the use of a magnificent hall in St. Andres Square . |
| 20 | But indifference to the truth of what he publishes is not to be equated with carelessness , impulsiveness or irrationality in arriving at a positive belief that it is true . |
| 21 | This is true of well-maintained houses in St Ann 's as well as decrepit ones , but openness to the wind and rain do not mitigate the difficulties of life under such conditions . |
| 22 | The flow of people so far visiting the museum is very encouraging , not only local people , but visitors to the town from as far afield as the south coast and Scotland have come . |
| 23 | It is true that marriage is , or may be , a detriment to the plaintiff ; but detriment to the plaintiff is not enough , unless it either be a benefit to the testator , or be treated by the testator as such , by having been suffered at his request . |
| 24 | Catholic identity is not essential for membership of the catholic — nationalist group , but consent to the understanding that catholic values will predominate in the public sphere is essential , for these religious values are viewed to be eminently suitable , natural , and self-evidently of high moral quality , safeguarding the fabric of state and public morality . |
| 25 | It is therefore possible for a defendant in a negligence action to raise a defence of volenti non fit injuria , but consent to the risk in question can not be inferred merely from the other party 's knowledge of the purported exclusion . |
| 26 | Generally indecent assault and gross indecency cases against males reported in the national press are not characterised by overt violence , but point to the dangers of the persuasive powers of people in positions of trust taking sexual advantage . |
| 27 | Events moved so rapidly in 1939 that the Left in Britain could do little but point to the complete breakdown of the National government 's foreign policy . |
| 28 | The point is well taken but attention to the planning decisions of ‘ spatially independent ’ capitalist organizations does show the character of power relations in capitalist exploitation . |
| 29 | But emigration to the United States had made this restriction anachronistic and so the Liberal government altered the law . |
| 30 | But resurrection to a Messianic Kingdom is surely implied in the words of the mother of the Seven Martyrs in II Maccabees : " Fear not this executioner , but proving thyself worthy of thy brethren , accept thy death that in the mercy of God I may receive thee again with thy brethren . " |