Example sentences of "not [art] [adj] [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Incidents of this kind were not the only contribution to tension over this period . |
| 2 | Bad industrial relations was not the only barrier to success that needed to be dealt with . |
| 3 | Is that not the best discouragement to crime and an encouragement to those elderly people who fear being attacked on the streets ? |
| 4 | An armchair by the fire in winter may be the ideal spot for reading a novel : however , it 's not the best place to structure or write an essay on " Newtonian thermodynamics ' or " Political and philosophical influences on the novels of Jane Austen " . |
| 5 | Right , at the last Committee , it was suggested that the figures be presented to Committee on a town by town basis , I E not the wider travel to work areas , the reason being that the travel to work areas are , are quite large and sometimes mask differences in rates of unemployment between different settlements . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's not the worst place to work , by any means , ’ said the woman . |
| 7 | The Bill is not the whole answer to car crime , nor does it pretend to be , but it is an important , new and urgently needed part of the legislative answer . |
| 8 | Perhaps the strongest is that there are species in which some females reproduce sexually , and others by parthenogenesis : if there was not a short-term advantage to sex , the parthenogenetic females would long ago have replaced the sexual ones . |
| 9 | Accordingly , perception of a gap between social and private returns was not a major handicap to investment . |
| 10 | It is not a passive witness to creation , but is the dynamic conscious activity which constitutes creation . |
| 11 | But the lack of sleep , washing facilities , privacy and the delay in settling usefully into your studies is not a good start to college life . |
| 12 | Thus , reflux symptoms reflect poorly prolonged exposure of the oesophagus to acid and are not a reliable guide to acid injury of the oesophagus in PSS . |
| 13 | I would just like to point out to anyone thinking of tackling the Lakeland Fells that a small guidebook alone is not a sufficient aid to path finding . |
| 14 | Krystom , and its inevitable rivals , is not an instant route to success . |
| 15 | The paper argues that ‘ on grounds of environmental cost , loss of hosing and expense of construction , road building in urban areas is not an acceptable solution to traffic congestion ’ . |
| 16 | Not an unfamiliar sight to city dwellers ! |