Example sentences of "not [adv] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it appears that this change must relate to certain dialects of Southern British English at that date , and not necessarily to other dialects . |
| 2 | If the present division is regarded as desirable , the next step is to ensure that the maximum penalty for the lesser offence is sufficient to deal with cases of serious threats which are not enough to negative consent in rape . |
| 3 | ‘ You and the little house are all I want , my darling , and a small allowance from Papa , so as not to hurt him and Mama , but not enough to corrupt us — perhaps to educate the children . ’ |
| 4 | He has contributed not only to general Marxist theory , but also directly to penology in Whigs and Hunters ( 1977 ) , his painstaking historical study of the passing of the ‘ Black Act ’ of 1723 , a penal statute of extraordinary scope and ferocity . |
| 5 | This goal had important consequences for the role given , not only to critical or scholarly commentaries and other incrustations upon the essential text , but also to the teacher : " In dealing with literature in any full sense , to efface oneself , to stand away , between the child and literature , is the highest and not the easiest of duties which the teacher can undertake " . |
| 6 | I also realized that I have a responsibility , not only to young black kids but to all young people , of every colour and creed . |
| 7 | The preceding discussion applies not only to jurisdictional errors of law but to all heads of illegality which render a decision ultra vires , including breach of natural justice . |
| 8 | In the courses due recognition is given , not only to chemical theory , but to the importance of chemistry to research , development and production in industry . |
| 9 | This principle is also the explanation underlying the famous experiments of Cleve Backster , when he discovered that his house plants responded by changes in their electrical activity not only to actual physical abuse , but also to his mental intention to abuse them . |
| 10 | There is also the further of point that the new tax extends not only to actual disposals but to deemed disposals where , after 17th December 1973 , a chargeable building is first let or occupied to a material extent after the commencement of relevant development , ie , there may thus be a charge to tax not only on realised gains but also on unrealised gains . |
| 11 | We have demonstrated that the phenotypic effects of a gene can extend , not only to inanimate objects like stones , but to ‘ other ’ living bodies too . |
| 12 | In English , a similar stance came to be taken , not only to fellow professionals , but to the great authors and their works . |
| 13 | The principle applies not only to taxing statutes but all forms of statute law . |
| 14 | In doing so he has to maximise the output from his land as he is subject not only to man-made economic vagaries but also to climatic variations beyond his control . |
| 15 | The new and sophisticated cable networks will open the way not only to new telecommunication services , but also to the spread of emerging technologies such as high definition television . |
| 16 | The Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution applies not only to molecular speeds but also to molecular energies . |
| 17 | It is strange that the party gave priority , not only to central and military organs , but also the guberniia- and uezd-level papers in 1922 , before intervening in the national minority sector in 1923 . |
| 18 | Local authorities were subject not only to central government-initiated legislative changes , but financially were seen as increasingly dependent on central government grants . |
| 19 | The book examines harmonisation of technical standards and the Community 's approach to harmonisation with particular reference not only to existing legislation but also proposed legislation . |
| 20 | Some items are inherently given because of their meaning and this generally applies not only to spoken and written English but also to most languages . |
| 21 | The occasion was ostensibly to mark the birthday of his wife , Barbara , and was an excuse to mix business with pleasure , since invitations were issued not only to personal friends of the chairman 's but also to various luminaries of the art world , and a few favoured clients . |
| 22 | The ‘ intercom ’ of the Quartet 's title refers not only to technological developments in information-processing systems , but also to how these developments have affected intercourse between individuals in everyday situations , and how this has in turn made possible a new role in society for narrative fiction . |
| 23 | However , in the USA , the chemical fallout from industry and agriculture has prompted an environmental expert to warn of the many unseen air pollutants which are not covered by the Clean Air Act and are damaging not only to human health — linked to ills from leukaemia to heart disease — but are implicated in the formation of ‘ acid rain' which has devastated vast tracts of forest ( Begley , 1988 ) . |
| 24 | These suggestions are relevant not only to human vision ( Ullman 's prime focus ) , but to animal vision also . |
| 25 | The Directive applies not only to listed securities , but also to those quoted or dealt in with less formality ( e.g. on the British Unlisted Securities Market and the French Deuxième Marché ) and to traded options related to them ; this will be so even if they are issued by non-EC companies . |
| 26 | The wording of the job advert can say much about the school and the direction in which it 's moving not only to potential applicants but to a much wider audience . |
| 27 | The allocation of resources to authorities must be linked not only to social need in terms of the levels of disability locally and the age and social class patterns of handicap and mental disorder , but also to the local costs of delivering that care . |
| 28 | Secondly , we have been trying to develop an understanding of locality in human agency ; one responsive not only to social or cultural processes but also to instinctive demands and human interaction . |
| 29 | Hoffman highlights a variety of peculiar stylistic traits in a corpus of German texts written by Turkish immigrants , and shows that stylistic analysis needs to be sensitive not only to formal linguistic devices , but also to the way in which such devices operate within wider patterns of action that are linked to social and situational contexts . |
| 30 | A strong Iranian presence throughout the period 479 — 334 is indicated by chance literary references , such as Herodotus , who refers not only to Persian individuals at Sardis before the Ionian Revolt from Persia of the 490s , but also to Persians being given the land round Miletus after the revolt ( v. 101 ; vi.20 ) . |