Example sentences of "[subord] not to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Announcing his new Cabinet on Nov. 5 , Miyazawa made Watanabe his Foreign Minister , and gave posts to members of the Mitsuzuka faction , although not to Mitsuzuka himself . |
| 2 | Mr Dostam supports the idea of an Islamic government for Afghanistan , but gives sanctuary to former communists ( although not to Mr Najibullah , who is holed up in the United Nations headquarters in Kabul ) . |
| 3 | Police pay and conditions were improved , although not to levels that satisfied the Police Federation and its members . |
| 4 | Perhaps it is not as useless as Aristotelian logic and can lead , if not to knowledge of necessary causes and natures , then to something worthwhile nevertheless . |
| 5 | The mounting cost to the nation of State benefits pointed , if not to bankruptcy , at least to a dangerously unbalanced budget . |
| 6 | What we and Holyfield do know is that Bowe offers a safer route , if not to heavyweight immortality then to respectful acceptance by his peers for his efforts inside the ring , in line with the respect his quiet dignity commands outside it . |
| 7 | One only has to read out their names — Sir Julian , Sir Geoffrey , Sir Michael and Sir Robin et al , to be transported back if not to Camelot then to an Excalibur lager commercial . |
| 8 | Eurotunnel 's only hope seems to lie in satisfying the banks ' technical adviser that his forecast can be reduced — which means at least to the contractors ' £7.5bn , if not to Eurotunnel 's own £7bn estimate . |
| 9 | Obliquely flattering his readers by introducing them to boys near their own age involved in surprising and exciting events , he also invited them to wishful thinking , if not to identification , by emphasising the youth of his heroes and underplaying the responsibility and enforced maturity belonging to midshipmen in the early and mid-teens in reality . |
| 10 | Mary Leapor would have been known if not to Susanna Jennens , then to other members of the Blencowe family who may have recommended her . |
| 11 | Now that we have become accustomed to reading about , if not to eating , such unconventional combinations of foods as duck foie gras with turnips in a sweet-sour sauce composed of wine vinegar , sugar , sherry and port , plus the odd 30 grammes of truffles ; paupiettes of crayfish garnished with leaves of Brussels sprouts ; lobster mould with a sauce of carrots and port blended in turn with a sauce américaine , Pomiane 's innovations do n't sound very audacious . |
| 12 | That , he decided , would put an end to Irina 's career , if not to Irina . |
| 13 | But I had thought I was , though not to Syl . |
| 14 | In Leach [ 1969 ] , The Times , 13 January , a man had himself crucified ( though not to death ) . |
| 15 | Love admits it will be very difficult for the players , who will be taking on opposition coming to the end of their season and in weather which will be completely different to what most of them have been experiencing over the past six months , though not to captain Bruce Russell , Iain Philip and Alastair Storie , who have spent the winter playing overseas . |
| 16 | The main flambeaux along the deck all died out suddenly so as not to backlight the fighting machines . |
| 17 | This was to assist the layers of the king 's soul to break free and find their proper places , so as not to encumber his final space-flight . |
| 18 | This may seem so obvious as not to need stating , but I believe that it can be overlooked . |