Example sentences of "but [verb] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Drug related adverse clinical events were mainly trivia , but led to three patients on cisapride and one on placebo withdrawing from the trial . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | So review is not an appeal on the merits of a decision but limited to those grounds . |
| 7 | Local authority spending per se is not included but grants to local authorities and their total capital spending are . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This ruling mirrored the previous one but applied to occupational pension schemes as opposed to the then state retirement ages . |
| 10 | He hears the rumbles of discontent — but points to concurrent rises in viewing figures and attendances . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | There were other rooms with more beds , but keeping to one room meant only lighting one fire ; the autumn weather had turned chilly early . |
| 13 | The point I think is not to count the numbers of fish raised , but to pass to fellow fishkeepers the knowledge gained . |
| 14 | Even more controversially , the APA wants changes in how violent offenders , who have been acquitted in court but committed to mental institutions , are assessed . |
| 15 | The seasonal cycle reaches 15 ppm at Point Barrow , Alaska , but declines to 1.6 ppm at the South Pole . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | You said to us that you left early in the evening , but according to other witnesses you left just an hour before midnight . |
| 22 | But according to managing director Peter Kruger , it is a little more expensive than he would have liked at approximately £3,000 . |
| 23 | The followers or ‘ administrative staff are selected not on the basis of status or qualification , but according to personal devotion . |
| 24 | If this glitch activity has continued over the lifetime of the pulsar , roughly 5% of the moment of inertia of the neutron star must now be effectively removed in the form of pinned vortices ; but according to current models , only 1% of the total moment of inertia is involved in the whole of the superfluid that interpenetrates the inner crust , where pinning might take place . |
| 25 | On 5 July Charles himself declared , ‘ I have bounded the Forests , not according to my right , but according to late customs ’ . |
| 26 | But according to veteran peace campaigner Dr Eric Gallagher — now retired but still busy — the idea of a joint initiative on sectarianism dates back to Cardinal Conway 's day . |
| 27 | But according to these figures there 's been some jiggery-pokery with the room rates . |
| 28 | Estimates of the numbers of political prisoners in Syria varied , but according to some sources about 3,500 still remained in prison . |
| 29 | But according to some husbands , the enthusiasm may seem less than wholehearted . |
| 30 | The need for a more balanced architecture , with readings being ordered not as a result of depth-first search but according to numerical scores to which all system components can contribute , will now be argued in more detail by looking at four types of co-ordination problem occurring in anaphora resolution . |