Example sentences of "not [adv] [prep] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | This is because cousin has a general meaning which covers all the more specific possibilities ( not only with regard to sex , but also with regard to an indefinitely large number of other matters , such as height , age , eye-colour , etc . ) . |
2 | Towns and cities vary , not only with respect to resources like housing but , more generally , with respect to the number and variety of jobs that are available , and to a wide range of educational , cultural and scenic facilities . |
3 | The contradictions that remain are challenging — not only with respect to de Beauvoir 's life but also in relation to our own lives . |
4 | The spirit of brotherhood travels not only from country to country but also from time to time . |
5 | However , one can see that the relative emphasis on these four factors may vary ( and sometimes conflict ) not only from job to job ( in some cases expertise is of the essence , in others the degree content is virtually irrelevant , and ability and ‘ personality ’ are the key things ) but from one employer and even personnel manager to another . |
6 | These practices , they further note , ‘ varied not only from region to region and from time to time but also from social class to social class , so that their impact on field systems and rural settlement patterns is complex and not easy to determine . ’ |
7 | How do you ring the changes so that the mood alters , not only from month to month but from one part of the garden to another ? |
8 | Rosmer 's anecdote gives us the measure of the role that Bukharin played , not only in relation to Lenin , but also to the whole Bolshevik Party . |
9 | Formal channels include debates , not only in relation to Bills but in relation to any other matter which the House chooses to consider , and questions , oral and written . |
10 | This kind of puzzle is not merely of interest to intellectuals who study what is called game theory , an area of mathematics advanced by John von Neumann , who also happens to be the father of the stored program computer . |
11 | ( s11(4) ) It is likely that these factors , and especially the availability of insurance , will be relevant in most cases where reasonableness is considered , and not merely in relation to clauses which impose a financial limit on damages ( Flamar Interocean Ltd v Denmac [ 1990 ] 1 Lloyd 's Rep 434 ) . |
12 | Moreover , they fluctuate in their supposed order of priority , not merely from Government to Government , nor even from year to year , but almost from day to day at the whim of public and parliamentary opinion . |
13 | Does he further agree that , at this critical time of ordering , building and commissioning that submarine fleet , we should not pay attention to the recommendations of the two main Opposition parties , whose opinion appears to vary , not merely from day to day , but from hour to hour ? |
14 | Bettelheim has said in The uses of enchantment ( 1976 , p.3 ) that ‘ If we hope to live not just from moment to moment , but in true consciousness of our existence , then our greatest need and most difficult achievement is to find meaning in our lives ’ . |
15 | A group of so-called " ethical ministers " , led by Economy Minister Marcilio Marques Moreira and including Justice Minister Célio Borja and Bornhausen , made it known that they had only signed this " pact " in order to ensure the governability of the country , and not out of loyalty to Collor . |
16 | Santa Cruz Operation Inc Unix is a different creature altogether , and not really of concern to Adobe at present , because most SCO products shipped are still transaction and ASCII-based , not GUI-based . |
17 | By the time it met , however , the momentum for greater political co-operation within the EC , not least in response to East European developments , was such that more radical reform was put in motion . |