Example sentences of "not [prep] the [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elvis 's huge ballad repertoire needs little commentary here , save to stress that it began not with the move to RCA but at Sun , ‘ Love Me Tender ’ ( 1956 ) and ‘ That 's When Your Heartaches Begin' ( 1957 ) being preceded by equally sentimental ballads cut for Sam Phillips ; indeed , it began earlier — when , as a boy , Elvis was entered for a talent contest at the Mississippi-Alabama Fair , it was the sentimental country and western number ‘ Old Shep ’ that he sang . |
| 2 | Where we may feel at a disadvantage compared with moral absolutists with fixed standards is not in the claim to objectivity but in the sense of certainty . |
| 3 | If a company pays a dividend during a ‘ dormant ’ period — ie when it is not within the charge to corporation tax — the Inland Revenue has been known to argue that the company will not be able to carry the ACT back against its prior tax liabilities . |
| 4 | Perhaps not last Sunday , and perhaps not on the way to Liam Shakespeare 's front door , but it had happened . |
| 5 | ‘ The coming of age of [ political ] democracy in our society ’ was , in the event , marked in 1979 not by the return to office of the Labour Government which had written the terms of reference for the Bullock Committee , and to which the trade union movement might look for the advancement of industrial democracy as the movement had specified it . |