Sentence examples for but not to completion from inspiring English sources

"In the sense that there's lots of great reform done, but not to completion".

Then there's the best moment of the finale, where Bachmann delivers a long explanation of the Machiavellian maneuvers he undertook to get the company more funding it's impossible to describe but it involves a lot of name-dropping of real-life VCs and jacking off (but not to completion) at a hardware store.

We chose 'onset of apoptosis' instead of 'apoptosis' as an output, as this output corresponds to the beginning of apoptotic processes, but not to completion of apoptosis, ie. cell death.

THF and PMDETA [ N,N,N′,N′′,N′′-pentamethyldiethylenetriamine, (Me2NCH2CH2 2NMe] also promoted metallation of benzamide but again not to completion.

The growth fraction (and the Ki-67 labelling index) relates only to the number (or fraction) of proliferative cells but not to the time needed for the completion of an intermitotic cycle.

"We don't have a final method of construction, and I don't have a final fundraising plan". Another LACMA project Govan has floated but not brought to completion is that the museum become a caretaker for significant residential architecture in the region.

As can be seen in the saturation curve, vesiculation occurred at much lower concentrations but did not go to completion in the time given.

When coupled colorimetric assays are used to evaluate suspensions of insoluble fat (butterfat, lard, or extracted fly fat), the lipase does generate some glycerol, but cleavage does not go to completion.

Upon heating, the reverse transformation of ω→α does not go to completion, but instead reaches a new metastable state.

I quickly realised that they couldn't and shouldn't aspire to completion.

Play, in zoology, behaviour performed in the absence of normal stimuli or behaviour elicited by normal stimuli but not followed to the completion of the ritualized behaviour pattern.