Example sentences of "[pron] but to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Give your time not to outraged attacks on what offends you but to the more urgent and useful task of teaching pupils how to spell by considering the recurring patterns of English spelling . |
| 2 | Deborah Waber has suggested that sex differences of this sort are not attributable to sex itself but to the difference between the maturation rates of the sexes . |
| 3 | I looked on it as an acknowledgement not just to me but to the programme I represented . |
| 4 | When one passes such messages back to one 's constituents , they say , ’ Who will do something to stop this nuisance , which is causing enormous problems not only to me but to the whole area ? ’ |
| 5 | You interview each one but to no avail . |
| 6 | I referred not to this one but to the principle . |
| 7 | We tried to rouse him but to no effect . |
| 8 | Well I think my mother did a good job but my father was an alcoholic and that 's , that made a difference , not just to him but to the entire family and I think probably to my own children . |
| 9 | When he put an arm round her she was unyielding and at odds with the rhythm ; he persisted , compelling her compliance not to him but to the music . |
| 10 | Phaedra , the all-powerful matriarch , conceives a wild passion for her stepson Hippolytus , who rejects her love with speeches hostile not just to her but to the whole erotic faculty . |
| 11 | THE SEABOARD IS a little less Eastern than you might have remembered it but to the enterprising Americans this is not a problem . |
| 12 | Tom does n't speak much to anyone but to the caddie when he 's in contention and he marches off at a cracking pace . |
| 13 | And if Mobuto was killed on American soil it would prove a severe embarrassment not only to us but to the President as well . |