Example sentences of "but [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only then is subcontracting widely practised but the small firms are so dependent on a limited range of buyers that they have little alternative but to accommodate to tight kanban schedules . |
| 2 | As a result , you may have little practical alternative but to agree to increased working hours or to work in a different area , despite the fact that the contract does not provide for such things , if they are commercially necessary from the point of view of the business . |
| 3 | You see when committees are meeting at two o'clock usually have a much shorter agenda than this committee discussion but to enable to this committee and to do its job properly , I would think we 'd be looking where possible to be able to discuss items properly and to get start at a reasonable time like we do . |
| 4 | The case of Bishop Zhu Hongsheng , 76 , sentenced to 15 years in prison , was unrelated to the pro-democracy protests but led to international calls that China allow more freedom of worship . |
| 5 | I had n't any LM so gave Mill 6C which stopped the haemorrhaging but led to such severe abdominal pains the GP was called . |
| 6 | He particularly enjoyed the fact that his vaguely cosmopolitan , vaguely raffish air not only made him attractive to certain high-born English gels , but led to such useful pillow-talk . |
| 7 | An initial invasion of East Prussia relieved German pressure on the French but led to disastrous Russian defeats at Tannenberg and the Masurian Lakes . |
| 8 | Drug related adverse clinical events were mainly trivia , but led to three patients on cisapride and one on placebo withdrawing from the trial . |
| 9 | The first of these would imply that Scaevola regarded the trust clause as ineffective ; the second that it was effective but limited to legal events which took place before the first will . |
| 10 | So review is not an appeal on the merits of a decision but limited to those grounds . |
| 11 | Local authority spending per se is not included but grants to local authorities and their total capital spending are . |
| 12 | This enquiry is similar to the one above , but refers to those facilities that are jointly used by neighbours over a third person 's property . |
| 13 | This ruling mirrored the previous one but applied to occupational pension schemes as opposed to the then state retirement ages . |
| 14 | He hears the rumbles of discontent — but points to concurrent rises in viewing figures and attendances . |
| 15 | The oxlip , P. elatior , is a rare , shade-loving , species with flowers like a primrose in size and colour , but hanging to one side at the top of a tall stem . |
| 16 | There were other rooms with more beds , but keeping to one room meant only lighting one fire ; the autumn weather had turned chilly early . |
| 17 | The point I think is not to count the numbers of fish raised , but to pass to fellow fishkeepers the knowledge gained . |
| 18 | Even more controversially , the APA wants changes in how violent offenders , who have been acquitted in court but committed to mental institutions , are assessed . |
| 19 | Another asked the National Pharmaceutical Association , which said that there is no medicinal product licensed for sale but referred to one small firm 's product , a 400 µg folic acid tablet , licensed only as a food supplement . |
| 20 | One agreed that the community would miss the school if it were closed , but referred to strong educational arguments for sending the children to a two-teacher school . |
| 21 | The seasonal cycle reaches 15 ppm at Point Barrow , Alaska , but declines to 1.6 ppm at the South Pole . |
| 22 | Examined in detail ( Fig. 5.7 ) this simple model repeats the problems of fitting the city wards identified by both the Shotgun and the Focused models , but adds to this a tendency towards relative over-prediction in the rural wards to the north and east of the area . |
| 23 | But listen to big Ray Close and he would have you believe that it was no big deal , just another fight and a chance to earn the kind of money he used to dream of as an amateur with Ledley Hall . |
| 24 | But according to one central-bank official , not even the quality of government is a condition of economic success . |
| 25 | But according to one retailer who thinks that the mail-order operation needs a lot of work to modernise and improve it : ‘ It represents cannon rather than rifle shot — it is old fashioned and they do not target customers properly . ’ |
| 26 | Much depends on overall volumes , load factors and the type of contract , but according to one source , UK prices for , say , an 80MW load with a 60% factor are lower than all the major EC producers except France . |
| 27 | For them , Japan was a magnet , promising them wages many times what they could earn at home , but according to one Pakistani worker who yesterday decided to speak out publicly , the reality was very different . |
| 28 | But according to Israeli officials , most of the Soviets choose to live here in Tel Aviv or Haifa in Israel proper , and that only a fraction , less than one per cent , go to the occupied territories . |
| 29 | For instance if I take the sentence ‘ I woke up late this morning ’ the items present in the sequence are obviously different from one another ; but according to Saussurean theory we make sense of this sentence by implicitly relating it to items which are absent from the sequence but equivalent to those in it , for instance ‘ You went down early that afternoon ’ . |
| 30 | You said to us that you left early in the evening , but according to other witnesses you left just an hour before midnight . |