Example sentences of "not the [noun] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was not the climax to a corny B-film . |
| 2 | And three physicists writing in Nature show that monopoles are not the answer to a long-standing problem of solar physics — that of the ‘ missing ’ solar neutrinos . |
| 3 | Therefore , I respectfully suggest to the Solicitor-General that a clear and simple change can be made to the law which would protect those who are not the parties to a trial — third parties outside a trial . |
| 4 | But a view of Co-operation which admitted only those who are thus motivated would make it an exceptional and exclusive creed to which could subscribe only those for whom Co-operation was itself the end and not the means to a better life , to one which enhanced what Dahrendorf calls a man 's life chances . |
| 5 | It is not the means to an end conceived elsewhere : but an ‘ as if ’ , no less substantial than the as if of revolution itself . |