Example sentences of "not [adv] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ' ’ But not on to the other ? ’ |
| 2 | At the back of the fort they diverted the Jumna and laid in its place a main road so that the delicate Mughal pavilions look out , not on to the source of the Waters of Paradise , but on to Mahatma Gandhi Marg , the most noisy and polluted stretch of the Delhi Ring Road . |
| 3 | They are simple to install ; all that is required is that they be level from side to side , and with the lip of the lowest basin protruding sufficiently so that the water empties directly into the pool water and not on to the edging of the pool . |
| 4 | Some people , brought up in the expectation of forging a career and getting near the top if not right to the top in their profession , may be deeply committed to their work . |
| 5 | - , and to applications ( such as PipeDream ) , but not necessarily to the filing system . |
| 6 | In short , if you crept up behind a chameleon and shouted ‘ boo ’ it would respond by changing colour but not necessarily to the colour of its surroundings . |
| 7 | However , Davis and Latter ( 1989 ) concluded that such developments are not necessarily to the benefit of any other centre , and orderly removal of excess capacity should be seen as a normal component of London 's evolution . |
| 8 | This is an advantage to the consumer , but not necessarily to the manufacturer , who may well have made both ! |
| 9 | He was more involved with the businesses and the actual mergers than Mr Milken ever was , but not necessarily to the good . |
| 10 | Far too much attention goes to the final judgements readers offer on the text , not enough to the context within which such remarks are generated . |
| 11 | Once , the oral tradition ensured that knowledge went not only to the brain but to the heart , to become the synthesis from within . |
| 12 | This led not only to the aggravation of unemployment problems but also to the lowering of labour force participation rates through earlier retirement and fewer married women returning to work after child-rearing — a phenomenon which , not surprisingly , was particularly marked in northern cities and industrial towns . |
| 13 | Moreover , this raises other questions about Cnut 's predecessors , questions without definite answers , but worth air-ing nonetheless , because relevant not only to the issue of how Swegen conquered England but also that of whether Cnut was already familiar with administrative institutions of an English type when he became its king . |
| 14 | That application form put him on the ladder , not only to the top of the Japanese profession , but to international recognition — on 1 January this year he took over the chairmanship of the International Accounting Standards Committee . |
| 15 | To do so was to court death and to surrender , not only to the hurricane , but to surrender a nation , however small , into the hands of killers . |
| 16 | Richard Branson agreed to advance £200,000 to complete The Great Rock ‘ n ’ Roll Swindle — but on the basis that Virgin had rights not only to the film but also to recoup the money from the group 's record royalties . |
| 17 | Ample car parking space provides excellent provision not only to the station , but to the working signal box , refreshment room and souvenir shop , plus the locomotive shed . |
| 18 | In such an event the guarantor should give covenants not only to the landlord but also to the tenant . |
| 19 | This may be distressing not only to the child and his or her parents but also to the unit staff who have got to know the pupil well . |
| 20 | This type of welfare can have immense benefit not only to the child but to the family as a whole . |
| 21 | Is he aware that is contrary to indications given by his civil servants , not only to the company but to the county council and to the Welsh Development Agency ? |
| 22 | Many have complex option features , related not only to the share price — as with warrants and convertibles — but possibly to interest rates and/or foreign exchange rates if the instrument includes issuer call or investor put features . |
| 23 | The covenants by the tenant relate not only to the payment of rent , but also to repair , insurance and user of the premises . |
| 24 | But such examinations must be adapted not only to the past ( what the candidate has actually learned at school ) but to the future ( what he will have to learn , understand , and be able to do next ) . |
| 25 | This accommodation , named " Hudson Flats " , bears witness not only to the enthusiasm with which the late Jimmy Hudson and his wife Mary worked for the provision of annual " Old Folks ' Holidays " , but also to the sum of £72,000 which they raised themselves towards the purchase of this property . |
| 26 | Lieb puts it well when he observes that the facade inscription on St Michael Berg am Laim — ‘ This is the Lord 's doing ; it is marvellous to our eyes ’ — paid homage not only to the King of kings , but also to the all powerful Josef Clemens , prince-bishop of Cologne . |
| 27 | To say that I see the squirrel with the black nose is to be committed not only to the existence of a visual experience , but also to the existence of something else . |
| 28 | Polymer solutions tend to fall into category ( iii ) and the non-ideal behaviour can be attributed not only to the existence of a finite heat of mixing but also to the large difference in size between the polymer and solvent molecules . |
| 29 | Enough money was raised for substantial donations to be made not only to the Society for the National Team 's September visit to Edinburgh , but also to the Sussex Cancer Trust . |
| 30 | One way would be for the letter detector for , say , Y-in-the-fifth-position to have inhibitory links not only to the word detectors for words which have any other letter in that position , but also to those detectors for words which have no fifth letter . |