Example sentences of "[noun sg] not to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Nambudiri eyes these women were concubines ; therefore the children belonged to the mother 's caste not to the father 's caste . |
| 2 | I say a reasonably just society , rather than a reasonably just law , for consent to obey the law expresses an attitude not to the law but to the society whose law it is . |
| 3 | He points out that when John uses that term in a negative sense it is with ‘ specific reference not to the whole of culture , but to a particular use of that culture by the forces of evil . ’ |
| 4 | Men , it is often said , give their allegiance not to the government of the day but to the state . |
| 5 | She addresses herself in this article not to the schoolchildren whom she describes but to an audience of fellow academics . |
| 6 | In opposing a Bill , however , the opposition ( occasionally it may be a dissident member of the government party ) will move an amendment not to the text of the Bill , but to the motion that the Bill be read a second time ( the motion before the House ) . |
| 7 | So she 'd go to the chemist not to the doctor then ? |
| 8 | I belong to the Community Oxford Health Authority not to the Family Health Services Authority , so that 's just to clarify that , that did cover two questions that I was asked . |
| 9 | Rifat Efendi gives Rajab 828/May-June 1425 for Molla Fenari 's appointment not to the Muftilik but to the kadilik of Bursa , but it seems likely that this is a slip of the pen and that he means the Muftilik inasmuch as he says that Molla Fenari went on the pilgrimage in 822/1419 before he became Mufti , an appointment he has not otherwise mentioned . |
| 10 | No attention was paid to previous cholecystectomy not to the presence of gall stones . |
| 11 | Finally , from within psychoanalytical criticism but from outside the Anglo-American paradigm , Gertrud Koch has drawn attention to a different theorisation of the gaze , one that does not link it to voyeuristic ( peeping through the keyhole ) pleasure but rather to the earlier , pre-symbolic stage in which the small child gazes openly at the world and at its mother : ‘ We may in fact owe the invention of the camera not to the keyhole but to the baby-carriage ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ Remember what Nikos said : apply the analysis not to the Moslems but to the Copts . |
| 13 | He belonged to the medical profession not to the Sally Army . |
| 14 | This may be no less true of the views of parents , employers and school governors who will respond initially to the presenter not to the argument . |
| 15 | Johnson related its effectiveness not to the trickery of the practitioner but to the credulity of the recipient : ‘ It requires no extraordinary talents to lie and deceive . ’ |