Example sentences of "not [adv] [verb] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | In some ways not altogether opposed to the hygienist school ( they did not very much approve of cuddling , although as early as 1932 Ian Suttie had protested against the ‘ taboo on tenderness ’ ) , nevertheless a basic interest in the child 's natural intellectual and social development , together with a less inhibited approach to sexual function , opened the door to greater permissiveness generally . |
2 | If not entirely restricted to the west country , there are no significant remains in the east ( i.e. around London , Verulamium , or Colchester ) . |
3 | Indeed , it was on those occasions when Branson had invested in projects not obviously related to the pop milieu that the losses had been greatest ; clothes , restaurants , Event magazine . |
4 | Those that carry the same names as overseas beers are produced under licence and do not necessarily adhere to the recipe or strength of the original . |
5 | A charter party did not necessarily attest to the ownership of the goods shipped because the charterer might not have been a shipper , but merely a lessor of space . |
6 | It might even come to be accepted that the discovery of flaws in the original investigation need not necessarily lead to the dropping of charges but may , instead , strengthen the case against the suspect through discovery of fresh evidence or by plugging of gaps in the original investigation . |
7 | The course writer 's patterning , whether overt or covert , does not necessarily lead to the patterning he intends the learner to produce . |
8 | The government had the right to control private investment in the interests of society , and Courtauld agreed with Beveridge that to surrender this freedom would not necessarily lead to the erosion of others . |
9 | Each new ache or pain is not necessarily related to the illness . |
10 | Radial expansion , however , is not necessarily related to the volume infused because of the multidirectional expansion of the volume . |
11 | There have been numerous attempts to mitigate this evil , from non-compulsory science-for-arts and arts-for-scientists , to the uneasy introduction of AS levels , each worth half an A level , to be taken in a wide variety of different subjects , not necessarily related to the student 's main subjects . |
12 | The reason for this is because some odorants are toxic but their toxic effects are not necessarily related to the perception of the odour per se . |
13 | He argues that class forms only one possible basis for power and that the distribution of power in society is not necessarily linked to the distribution of class inequalities . |
14 | However its findings do not necessarily point to the inevitability of NT on sheer merit , but because of the marketing clout Microsoft is credited with having . |
15 | ‘ Given the many problems with the data sets , ’ he said , ‘ one is not inexorably led to the conclusion that a negative secular solar radius trend has existed since AD 1700 , but the preponderance of current evidence indicates that such is likely to be the case . ’ |
16 | He could not live sanely , wholly , without her ; it was not enough to go to the playhouse , watch her tempting presence above him on the stage , without the least hope of possessing it . |
17 | They become invisible and ignored too quickly if their needs are not constantly presented to the public and to politicians . |
18 | Arguably , Macao would worry less about its future were it not constantly exposed to the nervousness of Hong Kong across the water . |
19 | We can not rightly attribute to the Spirit any teaching which does not shed light on Jesus , or any religious experience which is not congruous with the life of Jesus . |
20 | That , however , is not much use to the retailer if the boy has chosen instead to sue the retailer for breach of contract . |
21 | I hate this rubbish , ’ he was saying , but that was not much help to the performance . |
22 | Why , why was n't it enough that out of every experience that I mean like not much happens to the back of your neck like that , that 's one thing that I 'd even think about , I mean I 'm not any kind of historian , but like , like anything like the back of the neck I would think of a guillotine also . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | The clash in underlying values between Britain and the United States on the one hand and the former Soviet Union on the other , is illustrated by the fact that an act of financial speculation — which has not only led to the accumulation of great wealth but has also occasionally received public honour in Britain and the United States — might have earned the perpetrator the death sentence in the Soviet Union . |
25 | Restoration here has not only led to the repair of townscape , it has also created jobs for skilled craftsmen ( conservation creates more employment per pound than new build ) , and led to much needed housing for homeless and disadvantaged people . |
26 | And maybe the external factor interacts with the immune system and the immune system acting , over zealously as it were , not only responds to the invader , but leads to a bystander damage of the nervous system in the process . |
27 | The name comes from the old Norse word meaning ‘ to gush ’ and was not only given to the township nearby , but got into the English language as a descriptive name for any jet of water . |
28 | The issues raised there not only go to the root of the relationships between adults and children but also raise the issue of political control in general and in particular , the rights and duties of individuals to confront a sense of injustice . |
29 | They are frequently semi-derelict , insanitary and damp and their restoration not only contributes to the renewal of the local housing stock but provides employment for local builders and traders . |
30 | Residents not only object to the volume of traffic , but also the speed at which motorists drive through the village . |