Example sentences of "[vb past] not to the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 But the jobs in the new mechanised washeries went not to the women they displaced but to men .
5 Having ascertained that the problem related not to the law but to the evidence , he said :
6 Furthermore the court 's alternative conclusion that the profit arose in or derived from the places where these assets were licensed erroneously presupposes that the rights in question had a fixed situs outside Hong Kong whence profits accrued not to the sub-licensees but to the taxpayer .
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