Example sentences of "[verb] not to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any backlash problem which there might be seemed to relate not to the nature of our oppression , but to problems of management and presentation by these left-wing councils . |
| 2 | This is principally indexed to the claimed historical transformation of Modernism into a series of engaged avant-gardes dedicated not to the aestheticisation of life , but to the integration of art into life . |
| 3 | In practice the new discourse was addressed not to the population at large but to potential members of an elite of " the educated " . |
| 4 | That the latter seems to be chosen overwhelmingly testifies not to the existence of coercion , but to careful selection procedures for placing persons in corporate positions coupled with successful methods of persuading them that their interests and the corporation 's interests happily coincide — or at least , that that is the most sensible , pragmatic way of looking at it . |
| 5 | The knowledge that this is what occurs comes primarily from stability theory — applied not to the rest configuration as in Section 22.2 , but to the various possible convective structures . |
| 6 | Finally , the authors advance the widely held view that thrombosis contributes not to the initiation of the process but to its progression . |
| 7 | but did it look authentic with the thing , I mean not to the extent of |
| 8 | The title Kirkby Hill Races is something of a misnomer , as it refers not to a race but to an election . |
| 9 | Secondly , in an exchange like the following ( from Lyons , 1977a : 668 ) : ( 94 ) A : I 've never seen him B : That 's a lie the pronoun that does not seem to be anaphoric ( unless it is held that it refers to the same entity that A 's utterance does , i.e. a proposition or a truth value ) ; nor does it quite seem to be discourse-deictic ( it refers not to the sentence but , perhaps , to the statement made by uttering that sentence ) . |
| 10 | This ‘ difference ’ refers not to the difference in the law of the actual topic under study ( for that is to confuse the weakness in the technique with the whole rational for undertaking a comparative approach — if the law is not different why compare ? ) . |
| 11 | The phrase damnatio memoriae ( formal condemnation of an emperor following his death ) refers not to the repealing of the acts of an unpopular emperor but to the destruction of his images and the elimination of his name from inscriptions . |
| 12 | It follows that there is a close , but quite unexplored , relation between discourse deixis and mention or quotation ; thus in the following example ( from Lyons , 1977a : 667 ) : ( 91 ) A : That 's a rhinoceros B : Spell it for me it refers not to the referent , the beast itself , but to the word rhinoceros . |
| 13 | The term , then , refers not to an enterprise 's size or age , but to a certain kind of activity . |
| 14 | He sought mandamus directed not to the visitor but to the provost and fellows to reinstate him on the grounds that the provost and fellows had breached the rules of natural justice . |
| 15 | The principle appears to be related not to the Crown as such but to the Crown when performing a particular function . |
| 16 | Henceforth I shall take life as it comes , looking not to the future … |
| 17 | I agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff , South and Penarth ( Mr. Michael ) that it is doubly absurd to destroy jobs in the British tobacco industry — as has been done on a large scale — if that leads not to a reduction in tobacco consumption but to the substitution of imported brands of cigarette . |
| 18 | But Shakespeare 's manipulation ultimately disrupts Harsnett 's design : ‘ In Shakespeare , the realization that demonic possession is a theatrical imposture leads not to a clarification — the clear-eyed satisfaction of a man who refuses to be gulled — but to a deeper uncertainty , a loss of moorings , in the face of evil . ’ |
| 19 | As Collins , Hinings and Walsh note ( 1978 , p. 34 ) , ‘ The evidence of the various case studies in local government leads not to the question of whether officers or members control but rather in what ways both are involved in the process of developing and administering policy ? ’ |
| 20 | Although there were gaps in the system , such as the provision for small firms and for high-risk finance , the fundamental problem with the financing of industry in the UK was correctly attributed not to the lack of availability of external financing , but rather to the inadequacy of industrial performance . |
| 21 | Her antiseptic presence transformed Mr Sunderland 's office into a place where children were condemned not to the cane or detention but to threadworms or impetigo or a terrible weakness of the chest that could only be treated in some distant sanatorium . |
| 22 | Per Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. The words in section 8(1) ‘ directions for the purpose of determining a specific question which has arisen , or which may arise , ’ refer not to the method of determining that question , but to a direction which will , as a matter of law , determine the issue between the parties ( post , p. 118F ) . |
| 23 | For example in an advertising agency discussion about a new campaign to revive a soft drink one person might be trying to solve the problem of how an old drink can be called " new " in any sense ; another person might be trying to solve the problem of how " old " can be made appealing ; arid a third person might be trying to solve the problem of designing a theme that will sell not to the public but to the marketing manager who has to okay the campaign . |
| 24 | In practice the student endeavoured to respond not to the aggression but to the idea that this big , angry and intimidating young man was probably the more frightened of the two of them . |
| 25 | On the basis of the above analysis by the Court it might be more accurate to say that the test is a commercial one but that it relates not to the transfer of ownership of enterprises , but to the transfer of economic or organisational activities . |
| 26 | ‘ Channel ’ relates not to the preamp 's channels but to the MIDI channels that the preamp can send or receive on . |
| 27 | Having ascertained that the problem related not to the law but to the evidence , he said : |
| 28 | The hon. Member for Lancaster rightly said that what the Home Secretary called the fast-track applicant will go not to a tribunal but to an adjudicator with no new evidence . |
| 29 | The Williamson Tender , named after the case in which it was first used , is directed not to the pursuer but to a joint wrongdoer from whom a contribution is hoped for , be that joint wrongdoer another defender or a third party . |
| 30 | The police are directed not to the Polytechnique , but to a nearby student residence , and do not arrive at the Polytechnique until nearly twenty minutes past five . |