Example sentences of "but not to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That Immigration Officers should be National Front members may seem utterly wrong to some people but not to the Home Office . |
| 2 | Finis to the race , but not to the incidents which marred his season . |
| 3 | The flaw was known , but not to the operators on the fatal night ; in allowing the reactor 's power to rise with too many control rods withdrawn , they were unwittingly playing with fire . |
| 4 | The tank was gently filled , but not to the top — there would be a danger of slopping water over the floor when adding the bogwood and plants . |
| 5 | For the first time the Bill gives galleries powers of disposal , subject to certain conditions — or rather it gives such powers to the Tate and the national portrait gallery , but not to the Wallace collection or the national gallery . |
| 6 | The union request for recognition was referred to ACAS which sent questionnaires to union members at Grunwick 's but not to the rest of the workers because the employers would not supply ACAS with their names and addresses . |
| 7 | Leaf rigidity or curvature ; this is related to the leaf 's anatomical structure , but not to the percentage of structural tissue in it ; |
| 8 | ‘ It was obvious to any of the staff but not to the customers , ’ he added . |
| 9 | The contents of your AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files can influence PC performance but not to the degree you complain of . |
| 10 | Hairy caterpillars , such as this ‘ woolly bear ’ or garden tiger moth caterpillar , are usually distasteful to birds , but not to the cuckoo . |
| 11 | The speakers also generate distortion which adds to the harmonic content , or crunch , but not to the clarity of individual notes . |
| 12 | You can be the first men to go there — but not to the South Pole ! |
| 13 | That is , the rabbit still blinks to the air puff but not to the tone . |
| 14 | You can decree an end to the Cold War , but not to the arms manufacturers like Boeing . |
| 15 | Danzig was a party to the Treaty of Paris of 1920 but not to the Treaty of Versailles , which was held to be the source of the rights conferred upon Poland and the organic limitations on Danzig . |
| 16 | If the defective element had not been supplied with the toaster , then the value of the damage done to the toaster ( but not to the element ) could be included in the claim . |
| 17 | Perhaps the mistake we have been making is in applying that thinking to the Moslems but not to the Copts . ’ |
| 18 | In similarly insincere terms he thanks Duncan for the honours he has received from him : These speeches are subtly calculated by Shakespeare , for their insincerity is obvious to us ( the affected metaphors , the flabby repetitions ) but not to the recipients . |
| 19 | But not to the faces out there , on the wrong side of the lights . |
| 20 | But not to the School , not to the Bishop . |
| 21 | We can see why we can extend the use of ‘ afternoon ’ to Mars but not to the Sun . |
| 22 | Thus although it is commonly suggested that the notion of certainty is relevant to the analysis of claims to knowledge , but not to the analysis of knowledge itself ( e.g. , in Woozley , 1953 ) , this leaves us with no method of explaining why certainty should be required before one can claim knowledge when it is not required for knowledge itself , i.e. , for the existence of what one is claiming . |
| 23 | If there is a country house surrounded by grounds and the public has access to the grounds but not to the house , a s.11(1) offence is not committed when the accused removes something from the grounds . |
| 24 | It will just be visible to the teacher but not to the class . |
| 25 | At this point I shall return to Hirsch , who argues that there can be no intrinsic understanding of literature , only a variety of understandings : ‘ Aesthetic categories are intrinsic to aesthetic inquiries , but not to the nature of literary work . |
| 26 | Although it is conceded that a ‘ decline ’ occurred in a few trades , reformers are said to have been confused by terminology and to have failed to distinguish between ‘ deskilling of individual jobs and industrial changes which led to the number of jobs in certain industries or occupations declining either relatively or absolutely , but not to the nature of the job themselves changing ’ . |
| 27 | A court could hold the clause reasonable in relation to the claim for short delivery ( which would be readily apparent ) but not to the claim in respect of latent defects . |
| 28 | But not to the ground . |
| 29 | Even this HG activity had its lighter moments , but not to the participants of this incident . |
| 30 | Slightly overcrowd your tank , but not to the extremes otherwise your filtration system may not be able to cope with the extra loading placed upon it . |