Example sentences of "due not to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ultimate weakening of this unique ascendancy was due not to lack of outstanding operatic composers to continue the tradition , though vernacular opera — sometimes consciously national and therefore to some extent anti-Italian — produced more and more gifted rivals . |
| 2 | It is possible that the different results for dichotic recognition of melodies obtained by Kimura ( 1964 ) and Gordon ( 1970 ) were due not to stimulus differences in the two experiments but to differences in the musical experience of the subjects employed . |
| 3 | In part this is due not to ignorance of the Act , but rather to the not unreasonable proposition that , since the Act prescribes no penalty for inserting such clauses , in cases of doubt it is better to have the clause present " in terrorem " , even if , in the ultimate event of legal proceedings , it is held invalid . |
| 4 | This failure is due not to cussedness but to ignorance of what Parliament intended by the obscure words of the legislation . |
| 5 | When the people from Furnace Road visit the new housing estates they feel hemmed in , for though they live in a tight little terrace with backyard behind , and rug-sized gardens in front , they are used to a spaciousness that is due not to planning but to the lack of plan . |
| 6 | Does not that nail the lie being put around that these circumstances are due not to world but to British recession ? |