Example sentences of "[not/n't] [prep] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The glass not as addition to room , he wrote , but as subtraction from room . |
| 2 | ( It is important to remember that the purpose of these records is for internal progress checking , not for circulation to Area Managers or whoever . |
| 3 | This process is not of concern to archaeologists alone : the destruction of archaeological sites often coincides with the destruction of wildlife habitats and changes in the environment . |
| 4 | The words were not like music to Doreen 's ears . |
| 5 | differentiate that , with respect to sine X but not with respect to X. |
| 6 | These purchases or sales are not in response to changes in the PSBR or PSDR , and are best understood , therefore , in the context of an unchanged PSBR or PSDR . |
| 7 | The generations of Marxists who have lived through the grievous experience of Fascism and who , in another order of things , have experienced Stalinist degeneration , appraise the concept of democracy in a different way [ from Lenin ] , and not in opposition to socialism and communism , but as a road towards them and as a main component of them . |
| 8 | The National Advisory Council was formed , it claimed , not in opposition to Stoloyan , but because of the involvement of unrepresentative union leaders in negotiations with the government . |
| 9 | Only very occasionally is it possible to read between the lines , as in one instance at South Luffenham , where Henry Bonytt , as the sole tenant of freeholder Edward Sapcote , presumably held a lease ; he also had 10s. a year in land and a subtenant called William Clark , who must mutatis mutandis have held from him by lease , if not from year to year . |
| 10 | The tenancy was not from year to year but for a term which would continue until Matlodge certified that it was ready to proceed with the development of the property . |
| 11 | Managing quality in this example is based on the assumption that long-term and medium-term planning of all subjects is important , that the analysis and modification of the use of time have to be repeated from year to year ( if not from term to term ) and that targets and statements of attainment should feature in schools ' schemes of work " and provide a valuable focus for the planning and transaction of classwork by individual teachers " ( HMI 1990:14 ) . |
| 12 | This was expressed by Crick as the ‘ central dogma ’ of molecular biology , that information can pass from DNA to protein , but not from protein to DNA . |
| 13 | The succession passes ‘ not from father to son , but from uncle to nephew ’ ( O'Toole and Shukman 1977 : . |
| 14 | This appeal raises a short point not without interest to solicitors generally . |
| 15 | When prompted not to talk to Mary but just stand behind her and hold her shoulder it was evident how difficult the mother found this procedure . |
| 16 | Governments may elect not to talk to governments but we scientists are an incurably gabby lot . |
| 17 | The hero is not at home to callers , not at home in the office , in absentia at parliament . |
| 18 | In this way share prices are determined not by reference to estimations of fundamental value , but by a series of guesses about the behaviour of other market participants ; they result from ‘ [ s ] peculations on the speculations of other speculators who are doing the same thing ’ . |