Example sentences of "but [adv] [verb] [pron] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pedro Fernández Dittus was not , however , required to spend time in detention but merely to present himself to the authorities once a week . |
| 2 | After proctors of the lower clergy had objected in 1269 to being committed to a grant simply by the assent of the bishops , a council of prelates in the next year agreed on their own behalf to a subsidy of one twentieth for the king , but only extended it to the rest of the clergy after approval by diocesan synods . |
| 3 | Leys refers to them both , but only applies one to the Kenyan situation , that of the creation of state posts to absorb the unemployed surplus population formed by changing relations of production . |
| 4 | Well , children can be allowed to express their anxieties verbally and to learn perhaps from the adults ' modelling around them that to talk about these things in moderation is perfectly acceptable erm but not to do it to the extent or to allow children to perhaps watch the news coverage to the extent that they become over excited and are not able to contain their own feelings of anxiety about loss and damage and death and separation from parents and significant adults . |
| 5 | We found that ministers had solemnly undertaken not only to repair The Grange , but also to open it to the public . |
| 6 | The disinterested passions compel me to see from other viewpoints , but also blind me to the equality of viewpoints . |
| 7 | As far as the banks are concerned , they have no change in their balances in the Bank of England ( the government spends less money but then returns it to the banks by buying bills ) , but banks have fewer bills and hence fewer liquid assets . |
| 8 | More fashionably , this may be expressed in terms of " capital points " which may facilitate mental calculation of the agreed ratio at any given time but otherwise add nothing to the traditional method . |
| 9 | I turned to my nearest fellow browser , intending to ask her politely but firmly to lead me to the nearest padded cell , but it came out wrong . |