Example sentences of "not [adv] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may have held great promise in its early years but it soon became divided and then fragmented , due largely , if not wholly to the same age-old misconception whereby the basis of the religion is the assumption of the existence of a completely undefined ‘ god ’ , in this case the ancient ‘ god ’ of the Jews . |
| 2 | ' ’ But not on to the other ? ’ |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Rowbotham , meanwhile , had been sucked into the paper , but not on to the editorial board . |
| 6 | Despite the striving for the autonomy or consumption activities , resulting in an exaggerated separation from business interests , in some respects Bourdieu 's major source of analogy tends to fall back , not on to an economic , but perhaps on to an economistic model . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In narratives as diverse as Jane Eyre and Great Expectations , we are aware , when reading , of a certain inevitability of outcome : the writer has us by the hand — in his or her hand , almost — and we know we will be led , not necessarily to a happy conclusion but that the narrative will be resolved at a place that feels safe and right , that leaves us satisfied . |
| 9 | These last two are obviously each related to the nervous system and to the brain but not necessarily to a particular part of the brain and taken together they overlap in such obscure ways that they are best regarded as sub-systems in different domains , one can talk in terms of one or the other but not both simultaneously . |
| 10 | To a typesetter , the closure in 1960 of the last Liberal daily , the News Chronicle , might simply mean he must take his typesetting skills elsewhere , and not necessarily to a newspaper . |
| 11 | Parents should be held to some degree , not necessarily to a tune of a thousand pound , but they should be made in some way , to be responsible for their |
| 12 | He was more involved with the businesses and the actual mergers than Mr Milken ever was , but not necessarily to the good . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | All these questions relate to a captain 's last Test as captain , not necessarily to the last Test in which he played . |
| 15 | However , if there is no free charge in the space between the conductors , and strictly for two-dimensional problems , there is a method to which the adjective " general " might be attached , a method that provides plenty of answers but not necessarily to the questions asked . |
| 16 | This is an advantage to the consumer , but not necessarily to the manufacturer , who may well have made both ! |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | - , and to applications ( such as PipeDream ) , but not necessarily to the filing system . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Too much attention had been given to the short-term goals of profitability and not enough to the long-term effects on the environment of industrial waste , chemical spillage and oil and petrol pollution . |
| 21 | The Body Shop had brought a complaint against the Board , claiming that it was prejudging the Commission 's view , and that it was paying too much attention to industrial lobby groups and not enough to the concerns of consumers and environmental organisations . |
| 22 | more than seemed to be indicated in the figures that we 've got , because Buck 's figures for the extent of supplementary income are I know they 're significant but they 're not enough to the kinds of levels people had been living at . |
| 23 | It gave rise not only to a new religious movement of tremendous vitality , but also to tales of miracles and wonders . |
| 24 | The fusion of culture and entertainment that is taking place today leads not only to a depravation of culture , but inevitably to an intellectualization of amusement . |
| 25 | Where the force of the challenge has been felt in theology , it has led not only to a more sober evaluation of man 's spiritual and ethical potential , and to more serious reflection on the meaning of human sin , but also to a widespread doubt whether theology itself could really be solidly built on the basis sketched by a Ritschl or even a Schleiermacher . |
| 26 | This all adds up , not only to a valuable historical reference which nobody intending to perform this music could afford to ignore , but , in spite of its manifest shortcomings , to something which still stands head and shoulders above any of the other recordings in the current catalogue of this much missed composer . |
| 27 | We shall end with a brief survey of the fragmented current scene and a pointed reminder that International Relations is heir not only to a tradition of scientific explanation but also to one of historical understanding . |
| 28 | Nowadays , however , specialists often restrict themselves not only to a particular type of find , but also to a specific archaeological period . |
| 29 | This points not only to a severe differential in the quality of jobs between north and south but also to a differential in their rate of job growth over time . |
| 30 | And if this process can be conceived as relevant not only to a possible future but to processes of critique and struggle now , then to point to the emergence of black American , non-Western and European ‘ folk ’ elements within mass produced popular music commodities — with however ambivalent results — may be the historically most significant way in which we can put Adorno 's critical pessimism in its correct place . |