Example sentences of "but [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two wheeled carts are easier to balance than a single wheeled barrow , but tend to be more difficult to manoeuvre . |
| 2 | Other indicators , such as consumption anomalies and incident , of misuse , are available but tend to be unreliable . |
| 3 | The rye-grasses , particularly Italian , are very leafy and productive , but tend to be superseded by less prolific indigenous species . |
| 4 | These shapes might look cool on stage and in promotional videos but tend to be uncomfortable to wear . |
| 5 | A packet of tees , box of balls or a golf glove are all useful , but tend to be regarded as the ‘ socks and underpants ’ of golfing presents — necessary , but unimaginative items . |
| 6 | Unlike other British sculptors of recent times , however , the materials he works with are not drawn from the junk-heap but tend to be artefacts symbolic of consumer society : cars , television sets and illustrated magazines . |
| 7 | Neologisms come and go very quickly in spoken language but tend to be less frequent in writing . |
| 8 | Now , the signs of that beauty are still discernible but tend to be offset by the layers of crumbling stucco , stone or woodwork resulting from too many years of neglect . |
| 9 | Pre-packed bulbs come in a much wider range of varieties but tend to be more expensive . |
| 10 | Lapsed priests remain priests , but tend to be unemployable in their clerical functions . |
| 11 | A spokesman for the Chemical Industries Association said the industry was keen to improve its performance but asked to be considered in the context of everybody else 's pollution , such as farm waste . |
| 12 | Listening to Kitty was like listening to a stream , to the wind , to the sounds across the valley floor at night : except that Kitty was a woman , had once been young as she was , had been loved , lost tragically , but lived to be a testament to single-minded passion . |
| 13 | OK they 're quite happy for their girls to be academic but daring to be more positive about being ordered outside that because it involves such a lot , having control over your own body , again you know , abortion raises its hairy head again . |
| 14 | The first is a recognition that much of what has been described above already exists , but needs to be made explicit and systematic ; and secondly , there must be a recognition that partial attempts to change are almost inevitably doomed to fail in that they will always be compromised and administered by the history and culture of many schools . |
| 15 | Gentle exercise is valuable too but needs to be taken most days in order to do us real good . |
| 16 | The Safrane is good but needs to be better . |
| 17 | HRT gives fast relief from the immediate symptoms — hot flashes and night sweats — but needs to be taken for at least two years to protect from the more serious long-term side-effects of the menopause : heart disease and the bone-thinning condition osteoporosis . |
| 18 | It is as if the monarchy is not a value in itself , but needs to be justified by more basic and universally accepted values . |
| 19 | Choosing fish for the aquarium should be a pleasurable experience but needs to be carefully considered . |
| 20 | For the moment , however , it is sufficient to note that the formation of interest groups is a problem of the highest order ; the group world can not be taken as a given but needs to be explained ; and we have to attend to the determinants of individual consciousness and awareness , and the part they play in the development of groups and political conflict . |
| 21 | Tomorrow he may come in for a steak , but needs to be in and out in ten minutes . |
| 22 | The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is the most important , but needs to be treated with care . |
| 23 | Cases included 7,000 tons of ash from a Berlin power plant which was sent to be mixed with cement but found to be radioactive . |
| 24 | The narrating self not only sees , but wants to be seen to be seeing : the registration of detail , also praised by Calvino , and the reproduction of objects , gestures and expressions are conscripted into a form of obsessive and narcissistic display on the part of the observer . |
| 25 | ‘ This is not about beauty or trying to appear younger , ’ says the artist whose first name is Mireille but wants to be known only as Orlan . |
| 26 | He 's a star here , but wants to be top of the bill at the Westminster palace of varieties . |
| 27 | She , too , was extremely worried , but tried to be practical . |
| 28 | The superluminous masers are not well understood , but appear to be related to the mass outflow . |
| 29 | Though every responsible artist must know the annals of his art ( no one more than Pound insisted on that ) , still every artwork that is worth anything not only can be but has to be new , unprecedented . |
| 30 | In a Soviet Union where getting a film developed is not a simple matter , photography can not be the action of a consumer — of holiday , sports event or sight-seeing tour — but has to be , at the very least , a technical hobby ; at the best , an art form |