Example sentences of "[not/n't] to a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , although these outer-city neighbourhoods do not to a casual observer differ much from the inner city in language , they do exhibit clear social differences . |
| 2 | This was " a misrepresentation of the true Doctrine of Obedience taught in our Church ; which was oppos 'd to Faction and Sedition , not to a Legal Government : For Obedience is a Duty owing to setled Governments , administered by Legal Methods … but does not extend , nor was ever so intended , to the subversion of Laws , and our civil and religious Rights , at the Will of the Prince " . |
| 3 | It 's a special signal or you tune in , not to a certain frequency , but to Radio One and then wherever you go in the country it , it tunes in to the best transmitter . |
| 4 | To say ‘ the Word was made flesh ’ , then , refers not to a simple identity of God and Jesus but to a relationship in which God lovingly identifies himself in and with a real human person , 80 that that person can truly be called the Word , the self-communication and self-objectification of God in human terms … . |
| 5 | Atherton argues that the mass of the American people remain committed to support for the ‘ genuinely poor , sick , disabled and disadvantaged ’ , but not to a redistributive welfare programme . |
| 6 | As a consciousness which is objectively necessary and yet at the same time false , as the intertwining of truth and falsehood , which is just as distinct from the whole truth as it is from the pure lie , ideology belongs , if not to a modern economy , then , in any case , to a developed urban market economy . |
| 7 | Lesson observation has been used , but not to a great extent , by half of Oxfordshire teachers . |
| 8 | Overaccumulation gave rise , not to a mild decline in the growth rate , but to a classic capitalist crisis . |
| 9 | It gives expression not to a technical aspect of the division of labour but to its social aspect . |
| 10 | I , I , I think Chairman that on the , the case to which you refer as , as I recollect it was very much on the specific wording of the er restriction which erm was found to fail , because it applied to a number of houses and not to a specific property and er clearly care will have to be given by the districts that happens in imposing conditions to make sure that it will erm appertain to each individual property within a development so that the occupancy condition can be can be informed . |
| 11 | In such a situation it may be appropriate to think of restricting development of some SBUs — not to a specific amount of investment each year , but to a projected rate of development consistent with internal funds generated by the whole company over a period of years . |
| 12 | Owen had been to the Coptic Cathedral before but not to a Coptic church ; so he was surprised to find that most of the congregation appeared to be on crutches . |
| 13 | The concentration of phospholipids was also higher in the cholesterol gall stone patients but not to a significant degree . |
| 14 | Previous studies have shown that hepatic bile from cholesterol gall stone patients provides a greater total lipid concentration but not to a significant degree compared with controls . |
| 15 | Here , indications for hydrothermal activity along Hercynian striking fractures were found , so that a strong but short heat supply may be assumed , leading to local coalification maxima but not to a significant loss of reservoir porosity . |
| 16 | The relative distribution of vesicular cholesterol in hepatic bile of the cholesterol gall stone patients was higher than that of the gall stone free patients , but not to a significant extent ( 42.3 ( 14.9 ) % v 21.9 ( 21.0 ) % ) . |
| 17 | Britain 's church life has been compared not to a virgin landscape but to a garden which has been planted already . |
| 18 | It refers only to the cause of a difference not to a whole course of development . |
| 19 | Unlike the previous exhibitions in the series , this is the first devoted not to a royal court 's culture but to a culture based on a city 's commercial strength . |
| 20 | This does erupt , but not to a defined time schedule . |
| 21 | During the afternoon she worked hard and realised almost with dismay that she was going home not to a comfortable evening by the fire but to yet another Lenten service at which her uncle was to be the preacher . |
| 22 | This term refers not to a single theory but rather to a set of assumptions underlying a particular approach to the study of perception and cognition . |
| 23 | ( 2 ) That the prohibition in regulation 143 on the making of orders ‘ forthwith ’ applied only to an order which was to take immediate effect , and not to a suspended order which took effect after a lapse of time in the absence of objection by the Board ; and that , accordingly , a suspended order did not contravene the regulation ( post , pp. 199G , 202B–C , H — 203A , B–D ) . |
| 24 | Gower , when 7 , was given not-out to a caught-behind appeal against Mushtaq , and substitute Rashid Latif suddenly took off down the middle of the pitch like some Keystone Kop , arms waving , perhaps stung by a bee or heavily influenced by a certain West Indies captain who patented an onfield war-dance . |