Example sentences of "[not/n't] to [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proposed ‘ remedies ’ included : a multi-party political system ; a government answerable to an elected parliament , not to one political party ; use of referenda as a form of direct democracy ; autonomous local governments ; the creation of the office of state president ; an independent judiciary ; an end to censorship ; a supreme auditing office to inspect state finances ; constitutional guarantees to defend the rights of ethnic and religious minorities ; and a welfare state , founded on a market-based economy . |
| 2 | Conceptually , it is a term that is linked not to one social problem but to a host of economic , social and political issues . |
| 3 | These lead now not to mere eternal recurrence , but , redeemed , to spiritual content and the possibility of a peace beyond time in the search for the word which is both the word of God 's grace , healing , and the ‘ cry ’ of the poet aspiring . |
| 4 | Inflation , for example , means that the value of fixed assets tends to be understated ( historic cost compared with current value ) while income tends to be overstated ( because depreciation is related to historic cost and not to higher current cost ) . |
| 5 | The terms Orange Pekoe and Broken Orange Pekoe refer to the size of the leaf and not to chopped orange peel included in the pack ! |
| 6 | But if you 're playing guitar for your own personal pleasure , which many of us do , then you want the guitar to talk to you — not to some non-existent person sitting fifteen feet away . |
| 7 | But this is quite different from that conceptual shift , in which we are invited to break off the sociological inquiry and move , not to some specific attention , but to a generalized category with its presumed internal rules . |
| 8 | Information after " those early dayes ' must lessen the deictic force of the utterance because it shifts our attention not to some presupposed referent seemingly outside the discourse ( what " early dayes ' ? ) but to something qualified within the text itself . |
| 9 | But specific strategies were sadly amissing , for few there were experienced soldiers , used enough to inter-clan battle and feud but not to full-scale national warfare against the English might , as their fathers had learned to be . |
| 10 | Not to this hard man who wanted to grind her into the dirt . |
| 11 | Of course , the parameters that determine the drop 's energy refer to nuclear matter and not to any familiar liquid . |
| 12 | ’ Phetam belongs to us , ’ Sergia said stonily , ’ not to any other planet or people . |
| 13 | John Hutt was in debt , not to any great extent , but enough to be embarrassing . |
| 14 | From a close study of Bristol , not to any great extent a factory town , he argues that regularity was already a feature of urban labour by 1750 . |
| 15 | He maintains that it went straight as i die , whereas I think that it curled and dipped ( not to any great extent ) into the top right corner . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm not to any great extent , ’ she confessed . |
| 17 | Not to any substantial extent , it would seem , though in theory nothing prevented social ascent . |
| 18 | Convictions could be appealed , not to any judicial authority , but to the government agent and then the Governor . |
| 19 | They must , therefore , be dismissed as not being good in themselves , or not to any considerable degree . |
| 20 | But our improvement this season has been down to a team effort , not to any particular individual . |
| 21 | 205(1) ( xxvii ) " Term of years absolute " means a term of years ( taking effect either in possession or in reversion whether or not at a rent ) with or without impeachment for waste , subject or not to another legal estate , and either certain or liable to determination by notice , re-entry , operation of law , or by a provision for cesser on redemption , or in any other event ( other than the dropping of a life , or the determination of a determinable life interest ) ; but does not include any term of years determinable with life or lives or with the cesser of a determinable life interest , nor , if created after the commencement of this Act , a term of years which is not expressed to take |