Example sentences of "not [prep] [noun sg] [conj] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This failure is due not to cussedness but to ignorance of what Parliament intended by the obscure words of the legislation . |
| 2 | Significantly , Leslie Howard , in the famous film of 1938 , misunderstood this phrase , which he uttered as if it referred not to sex but to Eliza herself . |
| 3 | From my perspective , then , our lack of certainty should lead , not to inaction but to action on a multitude of fronts simultaneously . |
| 4 | Psychological research on human thinking suggests two alternative views of the machinery of the mind ; one is that the mental representations and cognitive processes are abstract , language-like forms manipulated by rules , and an alternative is that they are mental models whose structure corresponds not to language but to states of affairs in the world . |
| 5 | It refers not to power but to authority , and what I think he means is that although a woman can make good and wise judgements , she can not be the arbiter of that goodness or wisdom . |
| 6 | I have been anxious to show that the nuclear family may lead not to satisfaction but to frustration and disappointment . |