Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] a [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the sensitivities of both for the sufferings of men , women , and children drawn unwillingly into the war reflect something of the way in which thinking men asked themselves whether war was , in fact , not so much a way to peace as the prolongation of bitter conflict . |
| 2 | For the orthodox , however , it is not so much an aid to devotion as a way of communicating with God . |
| 3 | Though initially little more than special pleading for Liverpool shipping interests , his journalism taught him radical attitudes , most notably a hatred of the Foreign Office , for according so low a priority to West Africa , and a sympathy for African culture , which was reinforced by meeting the traveller Mary Kingsley [ q.v. ] in 1899 . |
| 4 | But even in the 1860s , the notion that a " mere girl " might learn the trade very quickly and be doing as well as a man in a short time , was not only a threat to employment but a threat to the craftsman 's pride in his skill . |
| 5 | This increasing emphasis on ‘ dignity ’ was not only a reference to behaviour within the chapel but to the nature of the Church as a body . |
| 6 | For her the multi-media scheme has been not only a counter to depression but also a means of exercising aspects of her intellect and imagination . |
| 7 | Microsoft Corp 's new Windows NT is not only a challenge to OS/2 — which Microsoft originally developed jointly with IBM Corp but has since abandoned — but also Unix , which is now installed on some 24m workstations . |
| 8 | Windows NT is not only a challenge to OS/2 — which Microsoft originally developed jointly with IBM Corp but has since abandoned — the but also Unix , which is now installed on some 24 million workstations . |
| 9 | Someone at Head Office needs to do a quick bit of thinking here : to couple an outstanding Appalachian Spring with this twaddle is not only an insult to Dennis Russell Davies and his superb musicians , but also to the prospective purchaser of this disc . |
| 10 | An Information Science element had existed in the course for some time and included not only an introduction to libraries and the nature of information but also on-line retrieval systems and other forms of electronic information provision . |
| 11 | He was also a minor landed gentleman , a circumstance which gave Burn not only an entry to society , but a profound understanding of his clients : as Donaldson recalled , ‘ no-one could tell with greater spirit many a good story about the auld Scots lairds and their vagaries . ’ |
| 12 | The play is basically a psychological study of a marital break up , yeah , of a couple and the other couple are very largely just an audience to George and Martha 's marriage yeah , that is the main line . |
| 13 | It was Gandhi 's favourite hymn : not exactly a call to revolution ( ‘ One step enough for me ’ ) . |
| 14 | Nazism is not just a threat to homosexuals , ‘ Lefties ’ and racial minorities , but the very concepts of democracy and freedom and those who believe in them . |
| 15 | ‘ We are not just a temple to gold and glass but should turn our attention to daily life ’ |
| 16 | We are not just a temple to gold and glass , but should turn our attention to daily life in all its many aspects . |
| 17 | This could open doors for my career so it 's not just a record to ome . |
| 18 | It must be total , he admonished , ‘ not just a coming to terms with the enemy ’ . |
| 19 | But the sad experiences of thousands over the past three years show that home ownership is not always a path to happiness and contentment . |
| 20 | Snow , however , is not always a disadvantage to mountain goats . |
| 21 | Half of clinics open just once a week to women seeking contraceptive advice , a Family Planning Association survey revealed yesterday . |
| 22 | HALF the country 's birth control clinics open their doors just once a week to women seeking contraceptive advice , a major survey shows today . |
| 23 | If you have a problem with colour mixing for instance , why not direct a question to Michael Wilcox ? |
| 24 | If you have a problem with colour mixing for instance , why not direct a question to Michael Wilcox ? |
| 25 | If you have a problem with colour mixing for instance , why not direct a question to Michael Wilcox ? |
| 26 | Shortly afterwards a Liverpool to Scarborough train thundered through . |
| 27 | Meanwhile Pound has proposed an English poet who is more nearly an analogue to Gautier than any so far mentioned , a nearer analogue and yet still not wholly trustworthy because he is ‘ from poem to poem , extremely uneven ’ . |
| 28 | This makes Stark 's reference to ideology as ‘ prejudice-begotten thought ’ clearly not a reference to Marx 's own writing . |
| 29 | An Old Firm game played on the Saturday before an international match is clearly not an aid to Roxburgh and the fact that it was the 34th match of a gruelling 44-game championship did not escape his attention , either . |
| 30 | The scheme is supported by the Workout Charity which will turn up once a week to helpwith applications and enquiries . |