Example sentences of "not to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not to the haughty woman who used helpless people as pawns in her ambitious games . |
| 2 | By adopting the Scottish term , Free Church , instead of Nonconformist , the movement was showing that it was making a new start with an eye to the twentieth , not to the nineteenth or even eighteenth century . |
| 3 | When an old woman on the mountain curtseys to Marco , when a priest takes the boys to the cave where loyalists have gathered and shows them a portrait of the historic Ivor , the story rises to a climax , but not to the final climax . |
| 4 | Attention is drawn thus not to the autonomous ‘ universe of discourse ’ and its logic of ‘ true versus false ’ but to the field of power and its logic of ‘ friend versus foe ’ . |
| 5 | A few of these difficult public-interest cases go , not to the disciplinary committee , but to the Joint Disciplinary Scheme : not more than about one or two a year , but each of them demanding a great investment of time and money . |
| 6 | He turned not to the developing rage for eclecticism , but to the French Renaissance style of the Second Empire . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's a human tragedy , ’ says a full-time union official , Gordon Samson , a Timex sit-in veteran and another of the officials scheduled for a court appearance , but he is referring not to the sacked workers but to the recruits . |
| 8 | The cult of self-help , usually visited upon the poor , actually belongs not to the poor but to participants in society , the respectable , self-helping , self-respecting institutions of organised communities and classes . |
| 9 | In urging against the Aristotelian realists that ‘ general and universal , belong not to the real existence of things ; but are the inventions and creatures of the understanding ’ , he is , of course , reaffirming from a different angle his rejection of their ‘ forms ’ , and their talk of the possibility of there being ‘ real ’ definitions of things . |
| 10 | Hutcheon 1977 and Wagstaff 1984 ) , in the name of a radically different literary project , wherein the text draws attention not to the outside world , but to its own procedures . |
| 11 | G. M. Young did not contest this judgment , which has led subsequent biographers to attempt elaborate textual exegesis in order to show that Baldwin 's remarks were venial because he was referring to a hypothetical election in 1933 or 1934 , and not to the actual one in 1935 . |
| 12 | Do you think that they erm were an asset or or or not to the actual community when they ac I mean erm looking at how things were in prior to the flats being built and and |
| 13 | Mrs de Crespigny ( ‘ Nora Champion de Crespigny is my full name ’ ) wrote to the effect that she had been passing the lounge at the time , and was a witness , if not to the actual assault , then to Mrs Wilikins 's evident distress . |
| 14 | Similarly , the title of mayor or lord mayor where retained adds to the social status but not to the legal position of the person holding the chair of the council . |
| 15 | However , we have to acknowledge the considerable benefits that have accrued in the past because people have hunted — benefits to conservation in general , not to the individual animals being hunted . |
| 16 | In so doing he could still ensure loyalty to the Merovingian dynasty , even if not to the individual king . |
| 17 | But I 'm already running — not to the Roombed — out of the back door towards Bedfordshire . |
| 18 | Probably to about 10% of the population and probably not to the other 90% . |
| 19 | Although bank loans are a vitally important source of finance , this is not to the complete exclusion of equity issues . |
| 20 | In the article ‘ Communications linguistique et spéculaire : modèles génétiques et modèles pathologiques ’ Irigaray traces the constitution of the subject not to the symbolic mastery of the mother by the child , as do Freud and Lacan , but to a recognition of the positionality of subject and object in language use . |
| 21 | The Secretary of State rather coyly referred to the increase in Scottish Homes ' total funding , but not to the overall position . |
| 22 | ‘ Vile , ’ is the first thing Esme says to me , referring not to the freezing weather but the correct pronunciation of the Welsh Brother 's name : Cad-vile . |
| 23 | Papua New Guinea , for example , may conjure up ideas of tropical jungles which could well appeal to would-be explorer executives but not to the home-loving family types . |
| 24 | He would thus have been guilty of perjury if he had submitted them when they were not to the best of his knowledge correct and complete . |
| 25 | You lie low for a while , and you disperse a handful of coins , singly , perhaps not to the best advantage , but still it 's all clear profit . |
| 26 | Individuals who wish to travel alone or in small groups may refer to Saga 's latest brochures , whick contain details of holidays to all of these countries , though obviously not to the specific locations . |
| 27 | Around half of this increase was due not to the automatic impact of recession on spending and taxes , but to an increase in structural deficits . |
| 28 | There is therefore reference in the case of each candidate to his own positive ability , not to the whole class of other candidates with whom he is to be compared . |
| 29 | The voters were by then more hostile to Mrs Thatcher and her government , but they were switching their support to Labour , not to the third parties . |
| 30 | That Alex Wyllie , the grizzled New Zealand coach , regards this as the All Blacks ' most important tour since the Cup is a tribute not to the Welsh but to the necessity of bringing through the next generation of players . |