Example sentences of "but to [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their enterprising approach brought them profits ; the Hudson 's Bay Company got 10 beaverskins for a gun at its posts on the Bay , but to the Indians this was the final stage in a complicated pattern of inland trade , so that when the French travelled out to the central hunting areas they were able to save the Indians all the transport and trading costs and could get 30 beaverskins for a gun . |
| 2 | That , however , was due not just to the complexity of turning the Political Community treaty into reality , but to the problems that the Six were facing in getting the EDC off the ground . |
| 3 | The tensions exhibited by the Council of Europe must be attributed not only to its structure , but to the forces which determined it . |
| 4 | She was in a perpetual process of readjustment , not only to tides and seasons , but to the rats she encountered on the wharf . |
| 5 | All such changes are related not only to people 's work lives but to the decisions of ( often multinational ) house building companies ; the latter increasingly investing in ‘ up-market ’ houses and retirement homes for people who have seen the value of their home rapidly increase . |
| 6 | It is odd that this abstract term is applied , not to our lives , but to the activities of people who tend to have difficulty with abstract concepts . |
| 7 | ‘ NOT TO THE GLORY of war , but to the Canadians who inherit these legends of valour and devotion to duty . ’ |
| 8 | Halevy , who had an acute eye for the ideological delusions of the British , observed that when Labour leaders looked for solutions to the problem of unemployment they turned , not to socialism , but to the traditions of liberal internationalism : |
| 9 | Liberal Democrats know that we have a duty , not only to each other but to the generations which follow us , to protect the environment . |
| 10 | But to the Victorians he was a controversial figure , too independent and too sympathetic towards the Indians and Inuit to be acceptable . |
| 11 | Onassis called the island a heaven on earth , but to the Royals it was just a huge playground . |
| 12 | Five days later the snow melted , and on the morning of 11 February the second massive flood in seven months overtook them ; it was all very well for the town directory to speak in glowing terms of the River Frome teeming with trout , eels , and all manner of fine fish — but to the inhabitants of Pig Street that wretched river too often spelt disaster and despoliation . |
| 13 | To Western eyes this method seemed restricted and undemocratic , but to the Soviets it was considered an orderly method of proceeding compared to the apparent chaos of Western politics . |
| 14 | ‘ Remember what Nikos said : apply the analysis not to the Moslems but to the Copts . |
| 15 | But to the sounds of utter silence from the European section of the Augusta press room , he hit his tee shot at the short 12th into the water , took five and by the 15th had given up his lead . |
| 16 | But to the positivists these similarities were purely superficial , since in both cases there was an underlying assumption that was totally unacceptable to them : free will . |
| 17 | When at length Isambard moved his hands to his belt it was not to the hilt of his sword , but to the buckles from which it hung . |
| 18 | Mansell has often courted controversy and complaints but to the fans … to the people he 's a folk hero … a friend … the cheers of the crowd are his turbo charge … |
| 19 | But to the protestors who turned up today hunting is more than just a sport . |
| 20 | The numbers were vast and this was very largely because the movies were not just appealing to sections of the masses but to the masses in general . |
| 21 | Secondly , much of the available data relate , not to women , but to the households in which they live . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's a human tragedy , ’ says a full-time union official , Gordon Samson , a Timex sit-in veteran and another of the officials scheduled for a court appearance , but he is referring not to the sacked workers but to the recruits . |
| 23 | But to the Lamarckians it seemed much more natural to assume that the wasting away of an individual 's eyes when there was no light would be passed on to the next generation , resulting in a rapid loss of eyesight in the whole population . |
| 24 | It was in fact the little river Enborne , twelve to fifteen feet wide and at this time of year two or three feet deep with spring rain , but to the rabbits it seemed immense , such a river as they had never imagined . |
| 25 | But to the rabbits they were redolent with luxury , a feast to drive all other feelings out of mind . |
| 26 | But to the men of Kufra whose fathers or grandfathers had settled there because it was so centrally placed on trade routes , or because it was so remote from Ottoman , Italian or British control , ‘ central government ’ appeared indeed as a real force , but as one located — so to speak — in the extreme northwestern corner , in Tripoli . |
| 27 | The police authorities might look askance at the bottle of beer but to the constables it was seen as a legitimate reward for a little extra service . |
| 28 | The equal protection cases show how important formal equality becomes when it is understood to require integrity as well as bare logical consistency , when it demands fidelity not just to rules but to the theories of fairness and justice that these rules presuppose by way of justification . |
| 29 | Any overseas profits accrued not to it , but to the sub-businesses . |
| 30 | Much of the writing on education and the structure of knowledge refers not to higher education but to the schools , and in particular to the concept of general education at the secondary level . |