Example sentences of "but [to-vb] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not a command to stay put , but to go and make disciples of all the nations . |
| 2 | Knowing that there was nothing for it but to go and apologise and , if possible , explain that her regularly serviced car was misbehaving , Fabia had her hand on the door-handle when she realised that she had no need to move . |
| 3 | The point is not simply to abandon this type of teaching but to acknowledge and analyse its limitations in the light of a more complex understanding of the nature of racism and to develop forms of educational engagement more likely to open up racist subjectivities and common sense to alternative discourses . |
| 4 | There is nothing for it but to taste and to experiment for yourself . |
| 5 | was to die for us , he said as soon as man came not to be ministered to , but to minister and to give his soul for life , as a ransom in exchange for |
| 6 | On this basis he may by all means erect a system of imperatives logically interrelated with statements of objective fact , and elaborate it to any degree of complexity he pleases , but to confirm or correct it he has always to return to subjectivity , to his own spontaneity in the concrete situation . |
| 7 | The answer to failure and sin is not to move the goalposts but to repent and try again . |
| 8 | But to cower and hide |
| 9 | The lesson , in my view is clear : neither to stand still and simply change leader ; nor , certainly , to go lurching back to the early 1980s , but to continue and intensify the process of change . |
| 10 | To proclaim that education is part of a caring social service is not to diminish the part which the education plays , but to enrich and deepen it . |
| 11 | Partly because of this book his lectures became famous ; and in them his aim , as the standard English history of classical scholarship puts it , was " not to communicate knowledge , but to stimulate and suggest … |
| 12 | Prices have continued to rise in the North , but to stagnate and fall in the South . |
| 13 | It is not to produce publications but to inform and instruct the reader . |
| 14 | Erm I think what we have to do in particular as , as , as full time officers is , is probably try and er and erm chase things up although they they 're within the realms of the respo the respective LEC 's but to try and make sure that they do get some clearer , if not confirmed , insight into re in relation to the contribution aspect . |
| 15 | It 's just that you have been waiting all afternoon for it to arrive and now have little choice but to try and bludgeon your way through the waves of cover tacklers . |
| 16 | They are designed not only to keep out black people but to try and intimidate black workers already in Britain and make it harder for them to claim their basic human rights . |
| 17 | The point of counterfactuals , on this view , is not to suggest that at any particular moment something else might have happened , but to indicate and test the relations between causes and consequences . |
| 18 | Charles acquired a magnificent collection of pictures and became a patron of Rubens and van Dyck as well as of Inigo Jones , who was commissioned not only to build palaces but to write and produce masques at Court . |
| 19 | The point is not to judge who is right , but to meet and resolve whatever doubt is a problem to a particular person . |
| 20 | Cardinal Lercaro , one of the moderators , stressed the need for greater speed on the part of the commissions , reminding them — an indirect but clear reference to the Theological Commission — that it was not their task to decide disputed issues by presenting for discussion one straightforward text , but to evaluate and organize amendments so that they could be more easily decided in the Council Hall . |
| 21 | But my lot was not to reason why , but to sell or die . |
| 22 | Worried about her attachment to her project which he read correctly as not only her desire to make Jacob happy , but to replace and improve upon her mother . |
| 23 | It was understood that everybody became so frustrated occasionally that they tried to escape , but to desert and to fail was considered despicable in their eyes . |
| 24 | It was not effectively designed as a movement to abolish , still less to limit , mass alcoholism , but to define and set apart the class of those individuals who had demonstrated by their personal force of character that they were distinct from the unrespectable poor . |
| 25 | They are not trying to replace the skill and judgement that comes with years of training and practice , but to enhance and prolong the surgeon 's own capabilities . |
| 26 | The problem is not to find them , but to select and order them comprehensibly . |
| 27 | Assurances were given that the tests were not designed to show that men or women are in some way ‘ better ’ than each other , but to trace and display managerial traits and aptitudes . |
| 28 | ‘ Ours but to do or die , right ? |
| 29 | Leaders must use sound judgment and , if necessary , part from those who were inclined to involve them in disputes that were not only calculated to bring defeat but to weaken and endanger the position held at the present time " . |
| 30 | The militant wing of the movement did consciously draw on medical and evolutionary concepts , but to extend and deepen their attacks on men . |