Example sentences of "but [adv] [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In terms of an automatic ‘ welfare consensus ’ , the social contours of British society have been altered irrevocably , partly by the Thatcher revolution , partly by deeper economic trends , which Thatcherism did not create but successfully harnessed to its political project . |
| 2 | Now , his songs are intended as the real thing , but widely assumed to be some sort of parody . |
| 3 | This reinforced findings reported elsewhere that Motorways are wrongly but widely thought to be the most dangerous type of road . |
| 4 | It had emerged that a recently formed Soviet state co-operative company called ANT , with clearance from at least three government ministries , had bought the tanks as surplus stock from an armaments factory at Nizhny Tagil in the Urals , had arranged to sell them to a Western country ( not officially disclosed , but unofficially reported to be France ) , and had stood to make US$8,000,000 profit on the deal . |
| 5 | As Sixsmith ordered a gin and tonic , and as he amusingly expatiated on his weakness for prawn cocktails , Alistair found himself wryly but powerfully drawn to this man — to this tousled screenplay writer with his dreamy gaze , the curious elisions of his somewhat slurred voice , and the great dents and bone-shadow of his face , all the faulty fontanelles of vocational care . |
| 6 | From his study of several village communities in Wiltshire , for example , Ingram has found that the great majority of villagers did not belong to polarized extremes , but rather adhered to a conventional mainstream Protestantism ; furthermore , Ingram believes it was the youth of the parish , rather than the least well-off , who were the most indifferent to religion and most impervious to moral discipline . |
| 7 | A Second interim report ( Cmd. 6794 ) , published in April 1946 spelled out the points in greater detail , but additionally referred to the community aspects of settlement . |
| 8 | Index followed a year later , originally launched inside the stores , but eventually intended to be fully independent . |
| 9 | She taught briefly in schools in Liverpool , Oban , and Eastbourne , and for a longer period in Tunbridge Wells , but eventually returned to Inverness to keep house for her invalid father , whom she outlived by only two years . |
| 10 | Reg , who has hung up his mail sack early for health reasons , began his rounds with foot and pedal power but eventually graduated to one of the familiar bright red vans . |
| 11 | He knew , but rarely admitted to himself , that the search for Elsie was an excuse to get away . |
| 12 | The reforms in education are broadly right , but badly sold to teachers and the public . |
| 13 | Former women compositors remembered working mainly with other women but all referred to the men who " carried the formes for us " , or " carried away the type to put in galleys " , though one remarked " my immediate boss was a woman " . |
| 14 | ‘ If a cause were to be rendered of natural appearances in special as what are the motions and influences of the heavenly bodies and of their parts , the reason hereof must either be drawn from the parts of the sciences above mentioned , or no reason at all will be given , but all left to uncertain conjecture . ’ |
| 15 | Because of the changed security situation and that type of er conflict not being envisaged in the same way now , what we felt was important was to be able to operate er apart from main operating bases , but also from sort of general purpose erm strips , flying clubs and those type of smaller airfields and therefore rather than looking at the damaged runway situation , we looked at the smaller strips and took a length that we could sensibly operate from erm and took that as the yardstick but clearly notwithstanding that , there is the prospect of damaged runways and therefore the slight relaxation would also apply to damaged runways but perhaps damaged to a lesser extent . |
| 16 | But much remained to be done . |
| 17 | This completed the mysterious Trinity to the satisfaction of the prevailing priesthood but merely added to the confusion of thoughtful people for generations to come . |
| 18 | She slid out of bed , reluctant but inexorably drawn to the window . |
| 19 | It can be read millions of times over , but only written to once — when it is first assembled at the birth of the cell in which it resides . |
| 20 | The larger , Q-beta RNA molecules are less well adapted to a test-tube environment but better adapted to the environment provided by E.coli cells . |
| 21 | The music publishing company was also showing a healthy profit , particularly with the coming success of a young Newcastle songwriter , contracted to the company under the name of Gordon Sumner , but better known to the record-buying public as Sting . |
| 22 | The concept of public interest , so essential to the concept of charity , is an inherently vague and subjective concept , not suitable for statute but better left to judicial discretion within the normal judicial constraints . |
| 23 | At present we do n't know the exact details of how it works , but towards the end of the 1980s it became apparent that once that signal does get to the nucleus , what happens next in any process of cell plasticity and growth — a step first detected in rapidly dividing cancerous cells , but soon recognized to be a rather universal mechanism — is the activation of a group of ‘ immediate early genes ’ . |
| 24 | Some schools , like Newcastle 's Northern Counties School , were evacuated in early September but soon returned to their proper premises . |
| 25 | He tried all sorts of subjects and approaches to photography and different camera formats and techniques as part of the course but doggedly stuck to his 35mm camera because of the portability , cheapness and speed of action . |
| 26 | He tried all sorts of subjects and approaches to photography and different camera formats and techniques as part of the course but doggedly stuck to his 35mm camera because of its portability , cheapness and speed of action . |
| 27 | Sometimes used as an alternative expression for the field , but generally applied to the underlying or background colour of any part of the rug ( e.g. , a blue-ground border ) . |
| 28 | Williams , Landel & Ferry ( 1955 ) found experimentally that 1n aT followed a relation of the form and further that C1 and C2 seemed to be universal parameters with values C1 = 20.4 , C2 = 101.6 and Ts a reference temperature , which is different for each polymer but generally found to be about 50° above the glass transition temperature Tg . |
| 29 | The position should be sunny , but not exposed to winds . |
| 30 | Two caucasian Oxford residents with HLA-B53 but not exposed to malaria were tested as controls and neither responded to any peptide . |