Example sentences of "not [adv] [v-ing] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He composed his blends not only according to the flavour of the juice , but also according to what the weather had been like that year — an early or late development , depending on the amount of cold or rain there had been — and according to whether the vines had grown a rich or mediocre foliage . |
| 2 | When Richard Crossman described secrecy as the British disease , he was not merely referring to the terms of the Official Secrets Act . |
| 3 | Though we may become more irritable and find life 's demands more stressful , loss of sleep is not physically damaging to the body . |
| 4 | A short way out of Pau on the opposite side to Lescar , to the north-east , is Morlaas , a small town that tends to get left out of the local guidebooks as not somehow belonging to the Pyrenees . |
| 5 | I 'm just going for a piss now I 'm not fucking going to the toilet . |
| 6 | I 'm not just referring to the kind that Pinder indulged in , but trips to the bathroom , that sort of thing . |
| 7 | if they ever do discover who was responsible , and it 's not without the bounds of possibility , it 's going to cause an awful lot of red faces and I 'm not just referring to the villain himself . |
| 8 | It is important here to stress that it is not just hitting to the target that is foremost , but at all times moving the feet to take the ball in one bounce . |
| 9 | ‘ British Gas will ensure as far as reasonably practicable that the goods and services which it procures are not inherently damaging to the environment during their use or disposal . |
| 10 | But when you think of er It 's not really referring to the beauty of the world . |
| 11 | In truth the Sergeant was not really listening to the Lieutenant 's enthusiastic explanation ; instead he was partly anticipating the Belgian girls and partly worrying when this headlong advance would run into the enemy picquets . |
| 12 | I call this an alternative theory because it seems obvious to me that the committee did think that clause 12 was necessary — and I am not simply referring to the definition of ‘ deception . ’ |
| 13 | One is not simply alluding to the tradition of Padraig Pearse , one of the leaders of the Easter rising of 1916 , who paralleled national violence and bloodshed to the salvation effected by the blood offering of Christ . |