Example sentences of "but [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to see her like that would hurt my feelings and hurt our Izzat ( pride ) . ’ |
| 2 | It is quite possible to keep a lone specimen but to see them at their best a group is preferable . |
| 3 | Ants can be kept in large glass jars filled with soil or in a wormery ( Chapter 6 ) , but to see them best you should keep them in a special kind of housing . |
| 4 | But to see them as marginal or peripheral is something else again . |
| 5 | I knew it must in theory , but to see it happen was still a lovely surprise . |
| 6 | As soon as I see that a patient 's breathing pattern is changing dramatically or that the eye movement behind the closed lids is altering , I instruct him to be aware of and to understand all that is happening but to see it as if on a film or television screen , so that he is completely detached and feels no physical or mental distress whatsoever . |
| 7 | But to see it from this perspective is to distort it . |
| 8 | It was one thing for Miss Sally-Anne Tunstall , pampered beauty , to contemplate the horrors of poverty from the relative comfort of Vetch Street , but to see it in practice , that was quite another thing . |
| 9 | But to see it from this perspective is to distort it . |
| 10 | But to enable him to concentrate on it , the government services that arose one after the other in the nineteenth century ( forestry , irrigation , the archaeological survey , public health and sani-tation , roads ) were organized outside the administrative structure , and had virtually no contact with the district officer . |
| 11 | The job of care staff is not to do things for clients , but to enable them to do things for themselves . |
| 12 | Considered purely as a recital by Golani , this was a riveting evening : in such a degree of intimacy her restless prowling , crouching , rising to full height , even stamping , combines with the intense commitment of her playing not to impede the music but to dramatise it , to add a further dimension to its urgency . |
| 13 | This situation needs resolution , but to compare it with the rape of Kuwait hardly strengthens your argument against Saddam . |
| 14 | He did not want to be bothered with the problems she encountered , with water that seemed brackish or ceilings that had cracked — they were her concerns and , as she complained in a letter to Minnie : — I am driven to distraction with those household concerns with which you will be familiar Minnie but then in your case you have but to report them for them to be seen to by the master who will instruct the butler to bring in workmen and I am obliged to go out and seek my own help which is no easy thing . |
| 15 | The UK solution to the need for a continuous and systematic comparison of the two is to keep them separate as far as the double-entry is concerned but to report them side-by-side . |
| 16 | There was nothing for it but to pretend it had all been as Aunt Emily would have wished it to be . |
| 17 | The white boys impute an imaginary position of advantage to blacks , which allows them not only to deny the actual conditions of black oppression , but to claim them as their own , in order to justify exclusionary practices which keep blacks ‘ one down ’ and themselves ‘ one up ’ . |
| 18 | Did you know Jehovah 's organizations always changes , not with it , but to combat it that way it comes to work , it keeps us alive , it keeps us on our toes , and so we could go on and on in saying well look keep away , stay awake and do everything that we should and , and we can stand here for the rest of the talk saying well do it , do it , do it but that 's easy for me to do that is n't it ? |
| 19 | Such a development would avoid the unnecessary replication of contracts , but to implement it requires the necessary political will to exist in Europe . |
| 20 | ‘ The Parliamentary system is n't there to give people a say in how the country is run but to delude them into thinking they have some power . |
| 21 | A purpose of Clarkson 's History was thus not only to delineate a common pattern of consciousness but to promote it as a contribution to energising the internal networks of antislavery for future struggles . |
| 22 | Furthermore , the same biochemistry might be adapted not to eliminate the chance of pregnancy , but to increase it . |
| 23 | Special schools are not therefore designed to isolate mentally handicapped children but to provide them with the specific form of education they require . |
| 24 | But to find her meant giving him the slip , and she had n't been too successful at that the last time . |
| 25 | But to hide it from him ? |
| 26 | To recognize the value present in a situation ( he urges ) is not merely to have an attitude which someone else who conceives the ‘ factual character ’ of the situation in exactly the same way might lack , but to conceive it in a particular kind of way which could not be duplicated in someone not thus drawn to it . |
| 27 | If a power of appointment , either in law or in fact , is vested in trade unions , the effect is not only to arrogate to them rights attaching only to ownership , but to establish them in this particular matter as the constitutional equals of Parliament . |
| 28 | If you think about this it 's based on the four carbon structure so you 've got ta have a few in the name there is a carbon carbon double bond so the basic structure we 've got is the Butane but as there is more than one position you could have that carbon carbon double bond now , to indicate this position and so this one would be called futes it would normally be a butane but to indicate it 's position bute one E and again you 're taking the lowest number so instead of it being a bute three , it 's a bute one E you start at the appropriate . |
| 29 | tendency if you talk about it you 'd be honest but to write it on a form you 'd be |
| 30 | She found she had torn most of the mourning band away from her sleeve and there was nothing for it but to pull it off entirely . |