Example sentences of "not [art] [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Death , for us , is the sorry end of the human story , not the mysterious prelude to a new one . |
| 2 | It was not the complete answer to the problem , and I doubt if anyone will find it , but it works better than anything else I know . |
| 3 | Loans , however are not the complete answer to the financial problems of technology-based firms that start up from scratch . |
| 4 | The greeting is not the only clue to the cultural provenance of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum , which has opened in Washington . |
| 5 | Greenpeace is not the only organisation to be concerned ; the National Asthma Campaign is also funding research into allergy and air pollution . |
| 6 | So seeking ‘ the cause ’ of cancer is not the only route to finding drugs which will relieve or cure it . |
| 7 | Air raids were not the only hazard to which central Baghdad was exposed . |
| 8 | A consumer is not the only person to whom information relates , but the consumer seeks more than personal information . |
| 9 | Foreign Minister Agramonte was not the only person to be dismissed on 12 June . |
| 10 | As we know , Prince Metternich was not the only person to be put into a diplomatic bag . |
| 11 | Abraham is not the only man to be put to shame twice before those he considered to have " no fear of God " to guide their actions . |
| 12 | Having reached some understanding of Hobbes 's method in terms of its application in natural philosophy , we should recall that that subject , which deals with ‘ bodies natural ’ , is simply one part of philosophy as such , and not the only part to which the resolutio-compositive method is to be applied . |
| 13 | Microgravity is not the only threat to humans . |
| 14 | BLONDE HAIR AND BLUE EYES IS NOT THE ONLY WAY TO BE |
| 15 | Incidents of this kind were not the only contribution to tension over this period . |
| 16 | Byron 's is not the only ghost to be detected here : the cold hearts of his precursors Lovelace and Laclos 's Valmont are present in Pechorin , who has succeeded in attracting a certain princess . |
| 17 | This was not the only blow to the club . |
| 18 | Research in science is not the only prey to these distorting factors , they affect policemen as acutely . |
| 19 | Roger de Clifford was not the only royalist to whom Fitzjohn was related , for he himself had married a daughter of the king 's justiciar , Sir Philip Basset [ q.v . ] . |
| 20 | The School for Nightingales was danced to music by Couperin and set ( in the period when he lived ) in a singing academy where ‘ the arrival of a visitor suggests that singing is not the only lesson to be learned ’ . |
| 21 | Ice was not the only obstacle to building the RRS . |
| 22 | The great complexity of class struggles , of which only the merest sketch has been given in this example , is still not the only matter to be considered in assessing the role of social classes in political change . |
| 23 | Bad industrial relations was not the only barrier to success that needed to be dealt with . |
| 24 | The Prince Albert was not the only ship to be held up by a dockers ' strike : at the East India Docks , the Jolly George with a similar load of armaments for Poland , was prevented from sailing . |
| 25 | Older people are not the only group to be disadvantaged by such trends . |
| 26 | The main criticisms of QALYs focus on two central points : firstly , that QALYs are unfair because they do not take into account who gains the QALYs ; secondly , that ‘ welfare ’ is not the only value to be put into the equation . |
| 27 | Street robbery was not the only crime to be viewed leniently in the interwar years . |
| 28 | However , Cellphones are not the only solution to maintaining contact with moving vehicles . |
| 29 | In the general excitement — the novel has scarcely begun — it gets borne in upon the reader that Stavrogin 's conduct is not the only thing to be puzzled by . |
| 30 | Shortage of money was not the only impediment to higher education . |