Example sentences of "but [to-vb] that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hardly dare mention traffic calming but it does seem to be the flavour of of the month at the moment but to see that the existing work doubled by and I know it 's going to cost the county erm this but if you do n't want to talk about the children and their crime it is er traffic calming it certainly is a and I do believe |
| 2 | In a way this new fight against censorship is an opportunity not simply to defend and ensure intellectual freedom but to affirm that a profession does exist which essentially safeguards this freedom . |
| 3 | The other plausible strategy is to admit an inconsistency but to accept that the law should not necessarily be consistent across the range of tragic choices . |
| 4 | This is not to deny the discoveries that have been made , but to state that the purposes that have given meaning to the scientists ' pursuit of truth have been success in and the sustaining of the scientific establishment . |
| 5 | But to suggest that a speech community is diffuse ( or internally divergent ) is not to imply that it is necessarily unpatterned or unstructured : on the contrary , our task is to find out how the variation is structured by demonstrating what the patterns in the community are like . |
| 6 | This is not to diminish the importance of controlled empirical study and the value of its findings , but to suggest that the extent of its usefulness can only be established by continuing enquiry and experimentation in the classroom . |
| 7 | But to suggest that the conflict was over political rather than intellectual matters is to introduce a false antithesis . |
| 8 | But to suggest that the tea plantations of Sri Lanka or the coffee farms of Togo should exclusively benefit from the export of their crop would be absurd . |
| 9 | In the end , the compromise was to give permission for the new blocks of apartments , but to require that the remains of the grottoes be restored as a feature in the new development . |
| 10 | In that review which is being sought in the motion we need to think strategically , not just about our own provision , but to ensure that a large scale T U C provision is maintained . |
| 11 | Modern government has a strategic role , not to replace the market but to ensure that the market works properly . |
| 12 | Some ingenious souls have even gone so far as to suggest that the correct attitude to fat , which makes sense in nutritional , agronomic and culinary terms is to aim in general at eating a low-fat diet , and at one in which most of the fat in the diet is polyunsaturated : but to ensure that the small amount of saturated fat that did creep in is as delectable as possible , which , of course , with slight deference to beef dripping , means butter . |
| 13 | The counsellor has to enter into the family dynamic , not intrusively , not demanding compliance with the wishes or even with the needs of the elderly counsellee , but to ensure that the feelings and needs of each member of the family , however weak , are heard . |
| 14 | The requirement for the consent of an organisation is not to protect any sovereign status ( which an international organisation does not have ) , but to ensure that the commitment is within its powers . |
| 15 | But to argue that an embryo is sacred is different from saying that a sperm is sacred . |
| 16 | But to imply that the deaths occurred because the men were the initiators of sexual activity is unforgivable . |
| 17 | But to say that the devil finds work for idle hands to do is misleading because hypermoralistic or ( if meant literally ) hypertheological . |
| 18 | But to say that the planned town required a single ownership of the site does not go to the root of the matter . |
| 19 | Auden was rightly suspicious of his own rhetoric ; but to say that the line We must love one another or die is untrue because we die anyway ( or because those who do not love do not instantly expire ) is to take a narrow or forgetful view . |
| 20 | But to say that the half-yearly payments were to continue till the whole sum of £2,090 19s. , ‘ and interest thereon , ’ should have been fully paid and satisfied , would be to introduce very important words into the agreement which are not there , and of which I can not say that they are necessarily implied . |
| 21 | But to say that an immune deficiency here and an immune deficiency there constitutes one or even two closely related diseases is like saying that apples explain oranges merely because both of them contain a number of pips . |
| 22 | Mrs Kemp was left with no alternative but to accept that no hearing could take place . |
| 23 | When in the fullness of immense periods of time , emerging man found that he needed a ‘ god ’ , and a logical conception of ‘ good ’ and ‘ evil ’ , he had no alternative but to accept that the countless millions of operations which make up the law of the ‘ survival of the fittest ’ , had necessarily to be designated either ‘ good ’ , if they furthered the cause , or completely disregarded if they did not . |
| 24 | He says continuing heavy losses and falling markets have given him no option but to propose that the six hundred and forty man pit should close . |