Example sentences of "but to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Usually , the weight of a person on the extreme nose will prevent the glider lifting off the ground , but to be safe it is best to put a person in the cockpit . |
| 2 | Manager Mr Cutts said : ‘ Provided they 're with their owners and are on leads , they 're welcome , but to be honest , we do n't get many in . ’ |
| 3 | McKim said : ‘ I can take a punch or a kick but to be spat at for no reason is disgusting . |
| 4 | But to be made a deacon was for the first time to profess before a multitude that the soul undertook the cause of God in a special ministry , and for the first time to feel sent to an apostolic work . |
| 5 | But to be a young unknown among the famous , and to hear them argue , he felt to be an education . |
| 6 | We might expect to find difficulty in relating , for example , the average length of prison sentences to the incidence of the crimes for which they are imposed ; but to be at a loss to trace any clear connection between the prospects of being executed for murder and the prevalence of the crime of murder is startling and impressive . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd wear this to a meeting at Radio One — it 's rare for me to look very smart but to be taken seriously you really do have to dress seriously ’ |
| 8 | But to be European in Lithuania or Scotland is to assert your nationality and the wish to get Moscow or London off your back . |
| 9 | ‘ You do n't go to the opera to hear the music but to be bundled together with similar people . |
| 10 | Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive , but to be a full member of the Exchange Rate Mechanism was very Heaven . |
| 11 | The middle-aged mother , however , who has dependants , a job , a mortgage and a car — all the trappings of the standard nuclear family , but without the visible support of the person normally responsible for such things — is generally treated like a rabid dog , something acknowledged as being in the neighbourhood but to be avoided at all costs . |
| 12 | I did n't really teach him to be a mime artiste but to be more of himself , physically , on the outside . |
| 13 | The idea of touching people in the crowd or letting people in the crowd touch him was something that had not occurred to him , but to be beautiful and that remote — you 've got to get a crowd to touch him because that was what really got them wild . |
| 14 | But to be required reading for top people , it will somehow have to become less inhibited without losing its fanaticism about accuracy and fairness . |
| 15 | He decided that the only way to become the best team in the world was to adopt a killer instinct ; to play fairly and sportingly , but to be tough and uncompromising . |
| 16 | But to be fair that was just the gourmets . |
| 17 | The Libyan quarrel was referred to Bishop Dionysius of Alexandria , a very well-educated man , who sided with those theologians who stressed the distinctness of Father and Son ; they should not be said to be of one being but to be as distinct as the husbandman and the vine . |
| 18 | ‘ They like her music very much but to be honest I am of the older regime , I prefer the traditional Welsh choral music . |
| 19 | The stones seemed not to weigh the room towards the earth but to be ready to lift it into the sky . |
| 20 | But to be fair , none of the drivers had had that Mr Major or Mr Kinnock or Mr Ashdown in the back of the cab . |
| 21 | But to be at his table , one would think South America were really there , to see a servant come in every day with ten or a dozen pine apples , as much as he can carry . |
| 22 | But to be safe he had promised not to talk of their meetings . |
| 23 | One example is the combination of a rural petty-bourgeois ancestry and the children of those parents , who live a very different life in a future which is already upon us , as in the two novels already discussed and , to some extent , in Marco Lodoli 's Diario di un millennio che fugge ( Diary of a millennium in flight , 1986 ) ; the protagonists of these fictions seem to belong neither to the past nor to the future , but to be caught in between , in some time-slip between the nineteenth and the twenty-first centuries . |
| 24 | And of course sometimes during this apprenticeship Boy knew that what he really wanted was not to be taught to be one of us , not to be taught how to be a man at all , but to be reassured that he might somehow remain a boy forever . |
| 25 | But to be perfectly frank , Stevens , I was n't paying much attention to the glories of nature . |
| 26 | Some poetic complaints survive on the concealing nature of this dress , designed to cover the tunic but to be worn beneath a cloak . |
| 27 | It was important to pass the examination — and not only that , but to be near the top of the list in order to be assured of getting through the door of the right secondary school . |
| 28 | But to be sorry for him would be a mistake : he lived his life to the full , and in all his deeds he enriched the lives of others . |
| 29 | Now I felt that I wanted nothing else in the world but to be allowed to read this dismal grammar all winter . |
| 30 | But to be effective they all have to learn to work together for the good of the school . |