Example sentences of "but [adv] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not a reference to any pet the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger may have had but rather to a ‘ thought experiment ’ he proposed ( a thought experiment is one that can not actually be performed , but the examination of which can reveal scientific truths — or , at least , plausibilities ) . |
| 2 | This term refers not to a single theory but rather to a set of assumptions underlying a particular approach to the study of perception and cognition . |
| 3 | Most of these are rather old , and do n't relate to the present Plate Tectonic picture , but rather to the situation ten or twenty million years ago . |
| 4 | Finally , from within psychoanalytical criticism but from outside the Anglo-American paradigm , Gertrud Koch has drawn attention to a different theorisation of the gaze , one that does not link it to voyeuristic ( peeping through the keyhole ) pleasure but rather to the earlier , pre-symbolic stage in which the small child gazes openly at the world and at its mother : ‘ We may in fact owe the invention of the camera not to the keyhole but to the baby-carriage ’ . |
| 5 | Therefore one must conclude that the ‘ death line ’ for dry gas is not related to the exhaustion of the source rock coal but rather to the disappearance of good reservoirs due to lack of porosity . |
| 6 | An increased number of children may not lead to more dwellings being required , but rather to the same number of larger homes ; or may affect the types of homes needed , such as those with amenities like gardens : conversely , an ageing population , which tends to consist of smaller household sizes , may need a larger number of dwellings , perhaps smaller and with special requirements such as ease of access . |
| 7 | This aim does not refer to the effectiveness of actual decisions taken in given circumstances ( which is the central problem of business policy ) , but rather to the attempt to identify those structures of behaviour which contribute to the achievement of organisational goals . |
| 8 | Moving closer , Jehan saw that the ends of the rods were not attached directly to the wheel , but rather to the shaft upon which it was mounted . |
| 9 | Although there were gaps in the system , such as the provision for small firms and for high-risk finance , the fundamental problem with the financing of industry in the UK was correctly attributed not to the lack of availability of external financing , but rather to the inadequacy of industrial performance . |
| 10 | It is important to remember that ‘ democratic deficit ’ does not refer to any notion that the Commission is too powerful , but rather to the idea that too many decisions are taken by the ‘ unelected ’ Council of Ministers , and that further powers should be transferred from this body and from national parliaments to the European Parliament at Strasbourg . |
| 11 | The low number of Japanese companies was not due to the companies themselves but rather to the poor organization of the Japan External Trade Organisation ( JETHRO ) in London . |
| 12 | The employer contended that the benefit derived from the employee 's invention of a new valve , for use in steel-making , should not be linked to the patented article itself but rather to the extensive development work expended on it by him after the application had been filed with the Patent Office . |
| 13 | The monetary approach affords primacy not to goods and services as such , but rather to the demand and supply of money ( real balances ) . |
| 14 | In part this is due not to ignorance of the Act , but rather to the not unreasonable proposition that , since the Act prescribes no penalty for inserting such clauses , in cases of doubt it is better to have the clause present " in terrorem " , even if , in the ultimate event of legal proceedings , it is held invalid . |
| 15 | But on to the sounds . |
| 16 | The four man circle , pictured above , identified that excess clay was falling not into the trucks beneath each machine but on to the floor . |
| 17 | Stork was attracted to the idea of headhunting , but less to the idea of working for GKR , so he decided to set up on his own , working at both headhunting and marketing consulting . |
| 18 | He found he could no longer hide behind a naive love , a sensuous world of uncomplex bohemia and he was drawn , still yearning for past ignorance , not up or down , but along to a state of affairs that simply put he could not cope with . |
| 19 | I am not referring to the wonders of the universe , or to the workings of the human brain , but merely to the genetical and biological formation of us humans . |
| 20 | From its wording , the question does not seem to relate to the requirement for vessels to be operated from within the flag state but merely to the case where , following the introduction of new registration requirements , a vessel loses its flag because the owners and operators are nationals of other member states and are resident and domiciled in those states . |
| 21 | Daniel , Sutton Copper Works , St. Helens ; Messr 's Sneyd & Co. , Whiston Copper Works ; but especially to The British & Foreign Copper Co. , Liverpool . |
| 22 | In mechanics there were interactions in which momentum ( mv ) was conserved , and others in which vis viva ( mv 2 ) was unchanged ; but down to the middle of the nineteenth century there was no principle of the same generality as that which Lavoisier had made into the foundation of chemistry . |
| 23 | The billions of dollars in aid promised to the Soviet economy should still be on offer : but only to a leader prepared to take the army out of politics and keep the promise of reform . |
| 24 | Nor does the estate come to an end with the tenant 's death : it passes to his heirs , but only to a limited class of heirs , ‘ the heirs of his body ’ , that is , his descendants . |
| 25 | The newer antiherpes agent , acyclovir , is of great interest , because it acts in virally-infected cells , but only to a negligible extent in healthy human cells . |
| 26 | It can be concluded therefore that the action project appears to make a difference in terms of the length of time people are sustained at home , but only to a certain type of dementia sufferer , and the numbers affected are likely to be small unless a wide geographical area is covered . |
| 27 | BL have used carousels , but only to a limited degree and , it would appear , only where they were particularly vital to insulate the biggest machines from human variability . |
| 28 | Now — but only to a limited extent — the officer has lost some discretion in handling routine cases . |
| 29 | Combining vaginal and rectal swabs , together with the use of a selective culture medium , improves the predictive value ( positive predictive value of 67% and a negative predictive value of 92% ) but only to a level which makes mass screening viable in areas with high rates of infection . |
| 30 | A few instances of forged documentation and fraud have subsequently occurred , but only to a limited extent . |