Example sentences of "but it be to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The case of the Tari Furora paralleled that of the Melanesians in ‘ Marie Lloyd ’ , but it is to his ideal City , and his actual urban Western civilization that Eliot relates this Papuan discovery : ‘ … if we are so helpless in the hands of our ‘ civilization ’ that we admit our inability to prevent it from ruining Papuans , what hope have we of saving ourselves ? ’ |
| 2 | But it is to the peoples of Africa that the news gave the greatest happiness . |
| 3 | In other words , it is not arbitrary that the wolf and dog are closer to one another than either is to the cat , but it is to some extent arbitrary whether one recognizes some given degree of similarity by placing two species in the same genus , or in the same family . |
| 4 | The list could go on , and it may indeed be appropriate to add to or subtract from it , but it is to be hoped that the general point is clear enough — that our first need is to have a very clear level of self-awareness about existing management structures and processes as a precondition for undertaking a review of these elements . |
| 5 | But it is to the west of the Sike on the same contour that most interest is centred . |
| 6 | But it is to Rano Raraku that the visitor should go . |
| 7 | But it is to be noted that the only doctrine of Rousseau 's which Wordsworth uses directly after his return from France is that of ‘ the general will ’ — the ‘ will of the people ’ had produced the French Revolution , as Wordsworth explained in his Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff . |
| 8 | The psychic reasons for this solidarity I have tried to give in this essay , just as I have attempted to spell out some of the political consequences , but it is to Dahrendorf that we owe the making of the connections between solidarity and economic consequences . |
| 9 | True , firms like Unilever spend more on their various brands combined ; but it is to Tesco 's advantage that all its own-labels fall easily under one ‘ brand umbrella ’ . |
| 10 | But it is to be noticed that in our problem the telegraphing business was started not by B but by A. B may have sent his counter-offer by telegram simply out of politeness , and not because he was in any hurry . |
| 11 | It is not a matter for our grandchildren or even our children , but it is to be decided in a fortnight 's time . |
| 12 | But it is to us who is used to this sodding weather ! |
| 13 | Oh , I 'd say it is w wrong anyway in that er I say it 's the it 's early er on it in the report Good defines what he determines a trustees duty and as I said to a sort of effectively ought enter into a tr transaction which immediately cost effecting kind of money rather than making money for the pension fund then it is against that duty in the first place , but it 's to it should however be ma made explicit that it is against that duty saying stock lending may be okay for a pension fund , but not stock lending where the er pension fund is acting as the borrower rather than the lender . |
| 14 | It 's gon na vary from village but it 's to an extent although the amount of grain you needed , the amount |
| 15 | The first task of working out a method whereby society can be apprehended as a social system for the organization of production , rather than as a structure of consciously realized institutions , is only sketched out in The German Ideology , but it was to be developed in all of Marx 's later work , and it culminated in the analysis of capitalism contained in the three volumes of Capital . |
| 16 | This chain of events led to British support of NATO becoming the basis of her Second Pillar of grand strategy , but it was to be another four years , and under Churchill 's last Administration , before it was finally set in concrete with the extension of the Brussels Treaty in the October 1954 . |
| 17 | The aftermath is seen , but it was to be several days before the damaged locomotive could be removed . |
| 18 | Electrification was first mooted during the early LNER days but it was to be 1954 before the final chapter in the story of Victoria opened . |
| 19 | But it was to no avail — she was no nearer the McPhersons than when she 'd started . |
| 20 | But it was to be completely apart from the real functions of government , and courtiers were neither expected nor permitted to be politicians . |
| 21 | But it was to be some considerable time before any more was heard of the letters or of Sir George . |
| 22 | The arch was to remain one of the important station motifs but it was to be matched and surpassed by the tower . |
| 23 | But it was to be Cardiff and not Oxford , railways and not mathematics . |
| 24 | But it was to be some time before he began putting his interest to any practical application . |
| 25 | This was an elegant and substantial location for higher education but it was to be only the beginning . |
| 26 | In fact , the use of pesticides in cereal farming is largely limited to seed dressings and sometimes aphicides , but it was to the use of persistent organo-chlorine seed dressings that the decline in birds of prey in the late 1950s and early 1960s was convincingly attributed . |
| 27 | ‘ Why ? ’ he said , but it was to himself or another power , not to her . |
| 28 | But it was to be a short-lived glory ; with his death the Bretwalda -ship passed elsewhere , and Sussex reverted from being prime among Saxon kingdoms to a minor position , on the periphery of the long-drawn-out struggle for national leadership between the rulers of Northumbria , Mercia and Wessex . |
| 29 | A marriage of Baptists believers , this : Charles , unlike his brother John , was never a full member of Badcox Lane Chapel , and he was even to play safe by having his children christened at the parish church ; but it was to the Baptists he turned whenever there was a death in the family , and eventually he and his wife would find a last resting place in the chapel burial ground on Catherine Hill . |
| 30 | But it was to Kirk Douglas 's detriment that he was considered by the director to be a temperamental actor whom he did n't want to have to cope with on the set . |