Example sentences of "not to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not to the haughty woman who used helpless people as pawns in her ambitious games . |
| 2 | When an old woman on the mountain curtseys to Marco , when a priest takes the boys to the cave where loyalists have gathered and shows them a portrait of the historic Ivor , the story rises to a climax , but not to the final climax . |
| 3 | A few of these difficult public-interest cases go , not to the disciplinary committee , but to the Joint Disciplinary Scheme : not more than about one or two a year , but each of them demanding a great investment of time and money . |
| 4 | He turned not to the developing rage for eclecticism , but to the French Renaissance style of the Second Empire . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's a human tragedy , ’ says a full-time union official , Gordon Samson , a Timex sit-in veteran and another of the officials scheduled for a court appearance , but he is referring not to the sacked workers but to the recruits . |
| 6 | In urging against the Aristotelian realists that ‘ general and universal , belong not to the real existence of things ; but are the inventions and creatures of the understanding ’ , he is , of course , reaffirming from a different angle his rejection of their ‘ forms ’ , and their talk of the possibility of there being ‘ real ’ definitions of things . |
| 7 | Hutcheon 1977 and Wagstaff 1984 ) , in the name of a radically different literary project , wherein the text draws attention not to the outside world , but to its own procedures . |
| 8 | Mrs de Crespigny ( ‘ Nora Champion de Crespigny is my full name ’ ) wrote to the effect that she had been passing the lounge at the time , and was a witness , if not to the actual assault , then to Mrs Wilikins 's evident distress . |
| 9 | Do you think that they erm were an asset or or or not to the actual community when they ac I mean erm looking at how things were in prior to the flats being built and and |
| 10 | Similarly , the title of mayor or lord mayor where retained adds to the social status but not to the legal position of the person holding the chair of the council . |
| 11 | In so doing he could still ensure loyalty to the Merovingian dynasty , even if not to the individual king . |
| 12 | However , we have to acknowledge the considerable benefits that have accrued in the past because people have hunted — benefits to conservation in general , not to the individual animals being hunted . |
| 13 | Probably to about 10% of the population and probably not to the other 90% . |
| 14 | Although bank loans are a vitally important source of finance , this is not to the complete exclusion of equity issues . |
| 15 | In the article ‘ Communications linguistique et spéculaire : modèles génétiques et modèles pathologiques ’ Irigaray traces the constitution of the subject not to the symbolic mastery of the mother by the child , as do Freud and Lacan , but to a recognition of the positionality of subject and object in language use . |
| 16 | The Secretary of State rather coyly referred to the increase in Scottish Homes ' total funding , but not to the overall position . |
| 17 | ‘ Vile , ’ is the first thing Esme says to me , referring not to the freezing weather but the correct pronunciation of the Welsh Brother 's name : Cad-vile . |
| 18 | Papua New Guinea , for example , may conjure up ideas of tropical jungles which could well appeal to would-be explorer executives but not to the home-loving family types . |
| 19 | You lie low for a while , and you disperse a handful of coins , singly , perhaps not to the best advantage , but still it 's all clear profit . |
| 20 | Individuals who wish to travel alone or in small groups may refer to Saga 's latest brochures , whick contain details of holidays to all of these countries , though obviously not to the specific locations . |
| 21 | Around half of this increase was due not to the automatic impact of recession on spending and taxes , but to an increase in structural deficits . |
| 22 | There is therefore reference in the case of each candidate to his own positive ability , not to the whole class of other candidates with whom he is to be compared . |
| 23 | The voters were by then more hostile to Mrs Thatcher and her government , but they were switching their support to Labour , not to the third parties . |
| 24 | For the benefit of Mr. Ian Aitken and The Guardian , and others , our objection was not to the social charter which was , of course , not even under discussion at Maastricht — although the Leader of the Opposition did not seem to know that . |
| 25 | The second reaction is the likelihood , indeed near certainty , of what will happen if urban discontent , crime and violence increase : this will be attributed not to the social situation but to the inferior , even criminal , disposition of the people involved . |
| 26 | It is a creature of the Secretary of State for Wales and the right hon. Gentleman has shown that its first responsibility is to him and not to the local community . |
| 27 | They will be accountable , these political nominees will be accountable of course not to the local community , but to the politician in London of whatever political persuasion . |
| 28 | He was expected to sell out , but not to the last shilling . |
| 29 | This shows that after a freshening in the early 1970s , the salinity ( and temperature ) began to increase in the early 1980s , although not to the same level as in 1970 . |
| 30 | It can therefore be used to associate paintings , if not to the same artist , at least geographically . |