Example sentences of "not [prep] the [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Believing revanche to be either unrealizable , or not worth the price to be paid , it looked to colonies , social progress and economic expansion for French achievement . |
| 2 | The economic gain from foreign contracts is not worth the risk to national property . |
| 3 | Suppose you present a surface dyslexic with the stimulus frays and ask , not for the word to be read aloud , but for the patient to say what the word means . |
| 4 | If you caused a flood by knocking a nail through a water pipe , the flood section would cover you for damage caused by the water , but not for the damage to the pipe . |
| 5 | Elvis 's huge ballad repertoire needs little commentary here , save to stress that it began not with the move to RCA but at Sun , ‘ Love Me Tender ’ ( 1956 ) and ‘ That 's When Your Heartaches Begin' ( 1957 ) being preceded by equally sentimental ballads cut for Sam Phillips ; indeed , it began earlier — when , as a boy , Elvis was entered for a talent contest at the Mississippi-Alabama Fair , it was the sentimental country and western number ‘ Old Shep ’ that he sang . |
| 6 | Action : Specified module is not in the structure to be updated — remove it from the steering file |
| 7 | For Moore , on the occasion of his 105th appearance in England colours , it became a miserable exposure to the inevitability of decline , an uncharacteristic positional error enabling Lubanski to surge through for the second of Poland 's two goals ; the famed captain would play only three more times for his country , and not in the climax to the qualifying group , five months later at Wembley . |
| 8 | Where we may feel at a disadvantage compared with moral absolutists with fixed standards is not in the claim to objectivity but in the sense of certainty . |
| 9 | If a company pays a dividend during a ‘ dormant ’ period — ie when it is not within the charge to corporation tax — the Inland Revenue has been known to argue that the company will not be able to carry the ACT back against its prior tax liabilities . |
| 10 | The examining officer comes from within the department but not from the area to be reviewed . |
| 11 | You could do the arrow going from the figures to the answer , from the sum to the answer not from the answer to the sum really does n't it ? |
| 12 | Perhaps not last Sunday , and perhaps not on the way to Liam Shakespeare 's front door , but it had happened . |
| 13 | London was not on the way to somewhere else . |
| 14 | But what is unquestionably true is that he spent much of I 188 not on the way to the Holy Land but in the castles and camps of south-western France , and that widespread rumour said that his enemies were bribed and incited into action by his own father , determined to keep Richard back until they could go together . |
| 15 | After his speech today , we still do not know where he stands on that matter — not on the draft to which he was referring but on the principle of extended majority voting . |
| 16 | However , as I argue in the final section , the extent of sexual dimorphism will depend not on the extent to which reproductive success varies in the two sexes but on the comparative effects of particular phenotypic traits on the breeding success of males and females . |
| 17 | It 's not on the path to a utopia at all . |
| 18 | 13 , the definition of sale by retail was considered and it was held that the sale was defined by reference to quantity sold , not to the person to whom that quantity was sold . |
| 19 | ‘ The coming of age of [ political ] democracy in our society ’ was , in the event , marked in 1979 not by the return to office of the Labour Government which had written the terms of reference for the Bullock Committee , and to which the trade union movement might look for the advancement of industrial democracy as the movement had specified it . |
| 20 | They have suggested that the loss of associability suffered by a pre-exposed stimulus is determined not by the extent to which it is predicted by its antecedents but by the relationship it bears to subsequent events . |
| 21 | But I was n't of the seniority to be one of the inner group of ministers which all prime ministers tend to work most closely with . |
| 22 | But Jessamy was n't in the mood to be placated . |
| 23 | Nine o'clock , a little late to get dressed and go in search of food , especially when she was n't in the mood to be sociable . |