Example sentences of "but to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A judicial inquiry has been initiated into his case but to AI 's knowledge , no progress has been made . |
| 2 | All this is felt to testify , not just to a general rankness and decay , but to a conflagration of another kind — to what will happen if the political and racial tensions of the island can no longer be contained . |
| 3 | But to us it comes as echo , shadow . |
| 4 | The chariot moves back and forth , he wrote , but to no purpose . |
| 5 | To you it 's just home , but to me it 's the place I 've been trying to get to . |
| 6 | I have tried a product called ‘ Hoppit ’ but to no effect . |
| 7 | Usually , the weight of a person on the extreme nose will prevent the glider lifting off the ground , but to be safe it is best to put a person in the cockpit . |
| 8 | the anthropologist is committed not simply to description , but to analysing and questioning the definitions and assumptions on which social groups base their existence and predicate their activities , and to unveiling that which may be concealed or unrecognised . |
| 9 | But to the ‘ rebellion ’ ( which may have given rise to something far deeper , as we shall see ) we must add two further emphases which we have italicised . |
| 10 | Harold MacMillan , Prime Minister , might still be saying to the electorate that they had never had it so good — which was true in terms of the change-round from post-war reconstruction , wartime destruction , and the days of depression ; but to someone of Leonard 's background , from Canada , the place was a bore . |
| 11 | She did not go to the room with the twin beds but to the single room with the sloping ceiling . |
| 12 | When a behaviourist approach is employed , it is not applied only to perception , but to all cognitive states . |
| 13 | There is something reflexive rather than rational , automatic rather than deliberative , circumscribed and autonomous rather than holistic about parsing a sentence such as ‘ She met John before Mary arrived at the airport ’ in the way we do ( with the pronoun she not referring to Mary but to some other female ) . |
| 14 | But to when ? a voice asked . |
| 15 | But to Leicester Square . |
| 16 | It may be obvious to tennis nuts why tennis should be the chosen one , but to the objective outsider , other games have better claims to priority . |
| 17 | They are horribly expensive but to my mind they are the best . |
| 18 | The 150th anniversary of the founding of the Great Western was marked in style but to many it will be remembered for the decision to shut down Swindon Works . |
| 19 | NSE 's name , and livery , was chosen to give a new character and significance to the rail system in the south east , and to emphasise its unity as a system , no longer a series of independent lines owning loyalty not to London as a whole but to long-abolished independent railway companies . |
| 20 | The company has promised much in the past but to date failed to perform up to the market 's expectations . |
| 21 | Manager Mr Cutts said : ‘ Provided they 're with their owners and are on leads , they 're welcome , but to be honest , we do n't get many in . ’ |
| 22 | She tried gamely to hold her head high and proud , but to no avail . |
| 23 | It is an eye-catching portrait of twisted repression , but to my mind it fails to conveys the essentially diabolic nature of Iago 's negativity . |
| 24 | To crush strikes and abandon political reform would be to throw himself into the arms of those groups wedded not just to authoritarian politics but to neo-Stalinist economic institutions and principles . |
| 25 | Mr Gray said the Distone order had not been to V Corps , but to the neighbouring XIII Corps , and Lord Aldington had been correct to follow the Robertson order . |
| 26 | Sian Phillips , Stephen Moore and Lesley Ash did their best , but to little avail . |
| 27 | But to the north , where the main Himalayan chain should have loomed , the curtain never parted , and it was the same story in the morning . |
| 28 | Few appointments made by the Civil Service Commission in recent years will be so crucial , not just to the efficient running of the welfare state , but to the progress of the most significant Civil Service reform this century . |
| 29 | McKim said : ‘ I can take a punch or a kick but to be spat at for no reason is disgusting . |
| 30 | She has been a delight from the beginning , not only to us , but to all the friends and relatives who have met her . |