Example sentences of "but not to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the wilder wheat beers might taste odd to the uninitiated , but not to people who grew up with them . |
| 2 | Dostoevsky owed a lot to Molière who is to be met in the notebooks but not to be pinned down in the major fiction . |
| 3 | At this point I shall return to Hirsch , who argues that there can be no intrinsic understanding of literature , only a variety of understandings : ‘ Aesthetic categories are intrinsic to aesthetic inquiries , but not to the nature of literary work . |
| 4 | Pardons went also to 64 left-wing guerrillas , but not to Mario Firmenich , founder of the Peronist guerrilla group , Montoneros , who is serving 30 years for murder . |
| 5 | This is to ignore the question , from the Christian standpoint , of the relationship of the divine and human natures in Jesus and the character of the involvement of the other two persons of the trinity in the Incarnation — difficult problems , no doubt , but not to be set aside in the search for truth and understanding . |
| 6 | The German guns then opened up but not to the same extent . |
| 7 | Nationalist politics in Zambia were initiated in 1951 under the banner of the Northern Rhodesian African National Congress ( ANC — but not to be confused with the present-day ANC ) led by Harry Nkumbula , from the Ila people of southern Zambia . |
| 8 | This does erupt , but not to a defined time schedule . |
| 9 | That Immigration Officers should be National Front members may seem utterly wrong to some people but not to the Home Office . |
| 10 | To follow Jill but not to be her successor ( who could be ! ) it is hoped to appoint an FYT Administrative and Resources Officer — see Sits Vac for details . |
| 11 | Secondary ( and tertiary ) qualities , such as colour and taste ( and solubility in certain acids ) , belong to a piece of gold but not to its corpuscles . |
| 12 | The land of Canaan is promised to him and his descendants , but not to Esau . |
| 13 | The sensation in her vulva was quite pleasurable , but not to be compared with the quiet delight of teasing people 's thoughts and feelings out of an unfamiliar language . |
| 14 | As my colleague Charles Spencer describes on our arts pages , Frances de la Tour and Berwick Kaler spent an acrobatic night undermining Catholicism , but not to universal delight . |
| 15 | Costs were awarded to the members ' agents but not to Lloyd 's . |
| 16 | He believed the decrees of God applied to salvation but not to damnation . |
| 17 | If the stimulus is removed for a period , the cell response recovers , but not to the original level . |
| 18 | Further evidence for the existence of the two pathways was that activated enzyme protein kinase C can restore the cellular response to depolarisation , but not to ACh . |
| 19 | The problem of Sunday caddies was again aired but not to any effect , the committee believing it had to abide by the ‘ banning ’ decision made at the earlier bondholders meeting . |
| 20 | The focus of this book is upon the social element , but not to the exclusion of the physical parameters . |
| 21 | The same economic and social conditions in the plains area might have led only to loss of soil fertility but not to wholesale soil erosion and environmental collapse . |
| 22 | There have also been well annotated studies of the transmission of trichomonal infection to the newborn offspring of mothers harbouring the organism , but not to the children of uninfected mothers . |
| 23 | Samuel admitted to the burglaries but not to the robbery . |
| 24 | More often than not , university library budgets relate to materials and running costs , but not to staffing , which is handled centrally . |
| 25 | For instance , in a study of 25 retinopathy patients — the marker most commonly used for microvascular disease — platelets exhibited enhanced platelet aggregation to the agonists adrenaline and arachidonic acid but not to ADP ( Creter et al , 1978 ) . |
| 26 | Two other departments also undertake this role but not to the same extent . |
| 27 | A bunch of flowers , a dozen red roses , a tiny , unimportant little gift , but not to me at the time . |
| 28 | Although it is conceded that a ‘ decline ’ occurred in a few trades , reformers are said to have been confused by terminology and to have failed to distinguish between ‘ deskilling of individual jobs and industrial changes which led to the number of jobs in certain industries or occupations declining either relatively or absolutely , but not to the nature of the job themselves changing ’ . |
| 29 | It was an incentive that applied particularly to developers and developer/producers , but not to those simply producing goods and services . |
| 30 | Here , indications for hydrothermal activity along Hercynian striking fractures were found , so that a strong but short heat supply may be assumed , leading to local coalification maxima but not to a significant loss of reservoir porosity . |