Example sentences of "but [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In terms of an automatic ‘ welfare consensus ’ , the social contours of British society have been altered irrevocably , partly by the Thatcher revolution , partly by deeper economic trends , which Thatcherism did not create but successfully harnessed to its political project . |
| 2 | Now , his songs are intended as the real thing , but widely assumed to be some sort of parody . |
| 3 | This reinforced findings reported elsewhere that Motorways are wrongly but widely thought to be the most dangerous type of road . |
| 4 | It had emerged that a recently formed Soviet state co-operative company called ANT , with clearance from at least three government ministries , had bought the tanks as surplus stock from an armaments factory at Nizhny Tagil in the Urals , had arranged to sell them to a Western country ( not officially disclosed , but unofficially reported to be France ) , and had stood to make US$8,000,000 profit on the deal . |
| 5 | As Sixsmith ordered a gin and tonic , and as he amusingly expatiated on his weakness for prawn cocktails , Alistair found himself wryly but powerfully drawn to this man — to this tousled screenplay writer with his dreamy gaze , the curious elisions of his somewhat slurred voice , and the great dents and bone-shadow of his face , all the faulty fontanelles of vocational care . |
| 6 | Somerset 's arrest in 1549 did not , as many expected , return the conservatives to power , but rather led to the primacy of John Dudley , Duke of Northumberland , who in alliance with Archbishop Cranmer eliminated the remaining conservatives from the council . |
| 7 | In contrast , the utility-based argument associated with Buchanan ( 1958 ) does not quarrel with when the resources are used but rather points to the fact that debt-holders have voluntarily taken up the debt and are being compensated for decreased present consumption by the enhanced future consumption that interest and repayment will allow , and hence are not made worse off . |
| 8 | In truth it does not denote any single right , but rather refers to a disparate group of immunities , which differ in nature , origin , incidence and importance , and also as to the extent to which they have already been encroached upon by statute . |
| 9 | From his study of several village communities in Wiltshire , for example , Ingram has found that the great majority of villagers did not belong to polarized extremes , but rather adhered to a conventional mainstream Protestantism ; furthermore , Ingram believes it was the youth of the parish , rather than the least well-off , who were the most indifferent to religion and most impervious to moral discipline . |
| 10 | The illuminated castle and black velvet kittens on the mantelpiece of the Toodles ' home in Staggs 's Gardens do not detract from it , but rather add to its sense of welcome . |
| 11 | The West Belfast MP said the Stormont discussions were not designed to criticise the police , but rather to relate to the Minister the fear felt in the city . |
| 12 | A Second interim report ( Cmd. 6794 ) , published in April 1946 spelled out the points in greater detail , but additionally referred to the community aspects of settlement . |
| 13 | Index followed a year later , originally launched inside the stores , but eventually intended to be fully independent . |
| 14 | She taught briefly in schools in Liverpool , Oban , and Eastbourne , and for a longer period in Tunbridge Wells , but eventually returned to Inverness to keep house for her invalid father , whom she outlived by only two years . |
| 15 | Reg , who has hung up his mail sack early for health reasons , began his rounds with foot and pedal power but eventually graduated to one of the familiar bright red vans . |
| 16 | Rising tax rates initially increase tax revenue but eventually lead to such large falls in the equilibrium quantity of the taxed commodity or activity that revenue starts to fall again . |
| 17 | WHYTE Crucial clearances but rarely got to grips with Hateley or McCoist 6 |
| 18 | Such losses reduce as the plantation matures but rarely return to pre-disturbance levels because subsoil is exposed and weathering is promoted . |
| 19 | He knew , but rarely admitted to himself , that the search for Elsie was an excuse to get away . |
| 20 | The pushing started first gently but slowly progressing to hard pushes . |
| 21 | Over West Francia as a whole , the eleventh-century castellans became but loosely subordinated to their princes . |
| 22 | The reforms in education are broadly right , but badly sold to teachers and the public . |
| 23 | In many cases this has involved rewording of Learning Outcomes but little change to the basic philosophy of the module . |
| 24 | The pollsters ' findings on the economy 's future are thus a fair measure of businessmen 's thinking — but little guide to what will actually occur . |
| 25 | Former women compositors remembered working mainly with other women but all referred to the men who " carried the formes for us " , or " carried away the type to put in galleys " , though one remarked " my immediate boss was a woman " . |
| 26 | ‘ If a cause were to be rendered of natural appearances in special as what are the motions and influences of the heavenly bodies and of their parts , the reason hereof must either be drawn from the parts of the sciences above mentioned , or no reason at all will be given , but all left to uncertain conjecture . ’ |
| 27 | Because of the changed security situation and that type of er conflict not being envisaged in the same way now , what we felt was important was to be able to operate er apart from main operating bases , but also from sort of general purpose erm strips , flying clubs and those type of smaller airfields and therefore rather than looking at the damaged runway situation , we looked at the smaller strips and took a length that we could sensibly operate from erm and took that as the yardstick but clearly notwithstanding that , there is the prospect of damaged runways and therefore the slight relaxation would also apply to damaged runways but perhaps damaged to a lesser extent . |
| 28 | This would mean that follow-on credit transactions which individually amounted to less than £30 but together amounted to more would become regulated agreements , under the Consumer Credit Act . |
| 29 | But much had to be dealt with around the mouth and collarbone ration , and his 50th innings as captain , in his 88th Test , closed with an awkward , hurried jab to short leg off the chest . |
| 30 | But much had to be done before any real progress could be made , and essentially this lay in the problem of land acquisition and assembly . |