Example sentences of "but [verb] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to go to a strange woman and ask her … what would she have to ask her ? |
| 2 | But to go to the other extreme and elevate people suffering from such abnormalities into a norm for society not only threatens society but is dangerous to the individuals themselves , since it excludes them from the consideration of help and treatment . |
| 3 | He had tried to hide his fears from his poor wife and gone down to his warehouse where another message had been awaiting him : he was not to return home , the short letter instructed , but to go to the House of the Crutched Friars where his anxieties would be resolved . |
| 4 | The car 's just a practical thing to me , I mean I like to drive around in comfort , everybody likes a nice car , I 'm not saying that , but to go to the extreme of spending what would say , seventy or eighty thousand pounds on a Porsche , I 'd have to be really , really rich before I would consider the luxury of having a Porsche . |
| 5 | It was a square , prefabricated building , none too appropriate to the site , but banished to the least obtrusive position , behind the entrance kiosk . |
| 6 | Tom 's mother was highly critical of the way the mainstream school was handling him but agreed to the assessment because she felt it might help him . |
| 7 | The old Communion plate of Halling was Elizabethan , at least the chalice made in 1569 dated by the hall mark ( M ) , the Paten is of a later date made in 1719 , but given to the church in 1732 . |
| 8 | The poster at the end of the tunnel was so large and so perfectly lit that it seemed to O , looking up at it suddenly , that the tunnel did not end in a wall , in fact did not end at all , but led to the green fields of France . |
| 9 | A depositor was to be paid three-quarters of the amount of his deposit , but limited to a maximum deposit of £10,000 . |
| 10 | Accordingly , I refuse to make the declarations sought in paragraph 1(d) of the originating summons and I will answer the questions raised in paragraphs 2(f) to ( j ) , but limited to the documentation currently used by each of the four plaintiffs , in the affirmative . |
| 11 | Heart experts never tire of pointing out that Winston Churchill started life as a frail premature baby , went on to smoke , drink heavily and eat to the point of obesity , but lived to a great age , whereas Nathan Pritikin , inventor of the Pritikin diet , died a premature death despite being obsessed with health . |
| 12 | This quaint description is not a manifestation of that well-known British chauvinism and insularity , but refers to an odd habit the human animal has of inserting bits and pieces of various shapes and sizes into different holes and orifices . |
| 13 | The quotation has nothing to do with the coming of the Messiah but refers to the destruction of the northern kingdom of Israel by Assyria in 721 BC . |
| 14 | But lose to the Patriots ? |
| 15 | And let me quote Locke er here we are are we he says but submitting to the laws of any country , living quietly and enjoying privileges and protection under them , makes not a man a member of that society then he goes on a little bit further down nothing can make any man so but is actually entering into it by positive engagement and express promise and compact . |
| 16 | Something about Marius not using the Rolls , but sticking to the Datsun . |
| 17 | Also using a rudder control but coupled to a spreader bar in the bridle , was the Target kite developed by Paul Garber assisted by Lloyd Reicher and Stanley Potter.This was a kite for the specific purpose of training small calibre gunners and on the Eddy-shaped sail , an outline of the Japanese Zero fighter appeared in silhouette . |
| 18 | This shows the technique behind the ringing open string scale fingerings that we looked at last month , but applied to a short musical piece . |
| 19 | Section 24(5) of the Partnership Act ( see above ) follows logically from the liability of all partners for the acts and omissions of their co-partners in the name of the firm , but applied to a firm of any size this simple principle overlooks the practical impossibility of literal compliance . |
| 20 | I have taken a particular reading of the work of both Lévi-Strauss and Barthes that emphasizes the influence of structuralist linguistics but points to the progression of these writers ' ‘ structuralism ’ away from linguistic analysis . |
| 21 | The world of shadow is the condition of human knowledge , and imagination deals in the meanings inherent in it but points to the light beyond where it will no longer be of use : |
| 22 | This does not amount to a rejection of Marx but points to an absence in his work and leaves Habermas free to retain a basically Marxist account of the forces of production and at the same time develop a theory of social relations of communicative production . |
| 23 | This is too harsh , but points to an important ambiguity in Foucault 's work : the neologisms and allusive argument conceal an approximation to older theoretical traditions . |
| 24 | He succeeds brilliantly in finding a style of speech which is neither archaic nor too modern ( apart from the odd anachronism like cash-flow ) but belongs to a timeless tradition of broad , popular comedy , like Ayckbourn with clogs on . |
| 25 | Some go on to argue , however , that value-freedom within the social sciences as a whole may be achieved by the interplay of arguments and evidence , each biased in different ways but contributing to the advancement of unbiased knowledge as a whole . |
| 26 | We did not claim that there had been any cases of poisoning in Britain , but referred to the numerous American cases ( FDA Drug Bulletin 1977 , vol 7 , p 26 ; New England Journal of Medicine 1979 , vol 300 , p 238 ) . |
| 27 | Kurdish insurgent activity was not confined to Iraq and Iran but contributed to the atmosphere of insecurity that prevailed in Turkey before the military coup in 1980 . |
| 28 | At a demonstration on 30 September 1899 , at Stanford Hall near Market Harborough , he flew Hawk , but crashed to the ground . |
| 29 | Comprising similar terrain to the previous category , but confined to the high ground above 300 to 350 metres this land includes the summits , ridge crests , plateaux , cols and upper slopes of mountains in Harris and on South Uist . |
| 30 | A democratic constitution , not supported by democratic institutions in detail , but confined to the central government , not only is not political freedom , but often creates a spirit precisely the reverse , carrying down to the lowest grade in society the desire and ambition of political domination . |