Example sentences of "[not/n't] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The technical way in which judicial decisions were made in the colonial courts was alien to indigenous tribunals but not to Sinhalese culture in general . |
| 2 | The same economic and social conditions in the plains area might have led only to loss of soil fertility but not to wholesale soil erosion and environmental collapse . |
| 3 | In two lectures in 1857 he attributed crime not to personal depravity but the corrupting tendencies of the law . |
| 4 | did not ‘ think it is open to this court to hold that the rule applies only to damage to adjoining land or to a proprietary interest in land and not to personal injury . ’ |
| 5 | No principle is discernible , nor has any been suggested , to explain or justify the giving of corporate status to some but not to other government authorities . |
| 6 | ( The previous version of the Code , which was still in force when Jones was tried , was identical except that it referred only to parades , not to other identification procedures . ) |
| 7 | The unexpected element in the result , however , was that second place went not to Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki but to Stanislaw Tyminski , an emigré businessman who had no previous political experience and was virtually unknown until the last weeks of the campaign . |
| 8 | In the Commons tonight , Jacques Arnold , Conservative MP for Gravesham , through whose constituency the line will run , said the Government had wanted to make a statement about the route on Wednesday but decided not to after Labour threatened to withdraw all cooperation if the statement was made the day after the Budget . |
| 9 | Although some Scottish lakes had begun to show signs of recovery , this was due to the decline of energy-intensive industries such as iron and steel and not to environmental protection policies . |
| 10 | It is a diagnosis whose burden is that the supposedly mistaken analysis , of a kind which has persisted through centuries , is owed not to good reason but to a kind of desire . |
| 11 | ‘ My role is not to spare life but to protect my own . |
| 12 | The order of the points in the article corresponds to the progress of an article from submission to eventual publication not to perceived seriousness . |
| 13 | ‘ Office is an avenue to material well-being ; but not to great wealth ’ ( Miliband 1977 , p. 112 ; see Deutscher 1969 ) . |
| 14 | The auditors owe a duty of care to the shore share holders collectively , not to individual share holders or what are called stake holders , employees for example , er nor do auditors have a general duty so far as the public interest is concerned . |
| 15 | Then in paragraph three forty he goes on to s to point out that the law er er which was then recently established was that auditors due owe a duty of care to their client company and the whole body of share holders but not to individual share holders and not to non share holding depositors . |
| 16 | Although the drift of coarse material on the upper part of the beach must be due to wave action and not to current action , the role of currents in moving material over the sea floor is disputed . |
| 17 | The references that I made were not to Labour party documents but to papers published by the chambers of commerce . |
| 18 | Onto one line I tie a size 2 , straight-eyed , forged hook , which has been carefully honed with a fine carborundum stone to razor sharpness , and the barb reduced to a bare minimum so as not to impeded penetration but still retain a degree of holding power . |
| 19 | It is quite obvious that the image of an unbridled libertine is a total myth : Lloyd George was above all the complete professional politician dedicated to public objectives , not to private lust … |
| 20 | Almost two years of acrimonious disputes between the Indian Government and the European aircraft manufacturer Airbus Industrie came to an end on Jan. 11 , when a court of inquiry in New Delhi ruled that the crash of an Indian Airlines A-320 Airbus in February 1990 , in which 92 people had died , had been due to pilot error , and not to technical failure , as the Indian authorities had maintained [ see p. 37268 ] . |
| 21 | Could I also say one thing finally , and that is the fact that we 've tried to run together the alteration and the greenbelt local plan as concurrently er as possible , er it would appear that the timing erm is coming together reasonably satisfactorily erm in that we hope that the report from the greenbelt local plan enquiry , is not to er far distant , erm and we would expect , sir , that you will be reporting on the proceedings at this examination in public er in the not to distant future , well I think I did give an undertaking at the greenbelt local plan enquiry that the County Council , because the two are er interrelated to a degree , that I would expect the County Council would not wish to pursue either report er until er the other er is available , and that seems to the County Council to be entirely sensible , that the two reports , the structure plan alteration and the greenbelt local plan enquiry , erm should be looked at together . |
| 22 | As my colleague Charles Spencer describes on our arts pages , Frances de la Tour and Berwick Kaler spent an acrobatic night undermining Catholicism , but not to universal delight . |
| 23 | We are applying it not to everyday life , but to that aspect of the performance mode that is , at least incipiently , present in dramatic playing . |
| 24 | Basal UOS pressure is very labile , responding to the child 's level of arousal and to oesophageal distention , but not to oesophageal acidification . |
| 25 | ‘ And that 's assuming the machine is programmed not to double back along the same path . |
| 26 | Use pick and fingers for this one , and set your amp not to full distortion but to a slight overdrive . |
| 27 | Please write to the addresses given for the individual courses ( NOT to Ideal Home ) , enclosing an sae for your booking form — applications can not be processed without one . |
| 28 | Not to incredible place . |
| 29 | Monetary policy is now geared to the exchange rate , not to domestic demand . |
| 30 | Note that this only applies to ordinary armour and not to magic armour which saves normally . |