Example sentences of "not to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , although these outer-city neighbourhoods do not to a casual observer differ much from the inner city in language , they do exhibit clear social differences . |
| 2 | These employ close to two-thirds of IBM 's 300,000 strong workforce : remember that Dell Computer Corp 's success has come from engineering the best , lowest-cost distribution strategy , not to a better product . |
| 3 | This was " a misrepresentation of the true Doctrine of Obedience taught in our Church ; which was oppos 'd to Faction and Sedition , not to a Legal Government : For Obedience is a Duty owing to setled Governments , administered by Legal Methods … but does not extend , nor was ever so intended , to the subversion of Laws , and our civil and religious Rights , at the Will of the Prince " . |
| 4 | If there is such a thing as a simulation in the same relation to suffering as imagination to perception , it is in response not to a real but to a fictitious situation ; it is the emotion of the actor revelling in the part of a tragic hero . |
| 5 | It 's a special signal or you tune in , not to a certain frequency , but to Radio One and then wherever you go in the country it , it tunes in to the best transmitter . |
| 6 | To say ‘ the Word was made flesh ’ , then , refers not to a simple identity of God and Jesus but to a relationship in which God lovingly identifies himself in and with a real human person , 80 that that person can truly be called the Word , the self-communication and self-objectification of God in human terms … . |
| 7 | Crakehall village hall , in Coronation Road , is an impressive building with , upstairs , an Arthur Daley room dedicated not to a nice little earner but to a much missed late resident . |
| 8 | Atherton argues that the mass of the American people remain committed to support for the ‘ genuinely poor , sick , disabled and disadvantaged ’ , but not to a redistributive welfare programme . |
| 9 | As a consciousness which is objectively necessary and yet at the same time false , as the intertwining of truth and falsehood , which is just as distinct from the whole truth as it is from the pure lie , ideology belongs , if not to a modern economy , then , in any case , to a developed urban market economy . |
| 10 | Lesson observation has been used , but not to a great extent , by half of Oxfordshire teachers . |
| 11 | Overaccumulation gave rise , not to a mild decline in the growth rate , but to a classic capitalist crisis . |
| 12 | It gives expression not to a technical aspect of the division of labour but to its social aspect . |
| 13 | Andrew 's face lights up when he talks about such projects and his conversation is punctuated with the names of theatres , directors and actor 's actors — people well-known in the business but not to a wider audience . |
| 14 | In such a situation it may be appropriate to think of restricting development of some SBUs — not to a specific amount of investment each year , but to a projected rate of development consistent with internal funds generated by the whole company over a period of years . |
| 15 | I , I , I think Chairman that on the , the case to which you refer as , as I recollect it was very much on the specific wording of the er restriction which erm was found to fail , because it applied to a number of houses and not to a specific property and er clearly care will have to be given by the districts that happens in imposing conditions to make sure that it will erm appertain to each individual property within a development so that the occupancy condition can be can be informed . |
| 16 | Owen had been to the Coptic Cathedral before but not to a Coptic church ; so he was surprised to find that most of the congregation appeared to be on crutches . |
| 17 | Here , indications for hydrothermal activity along Hercynian striking fractures were found , so that a strong but short heat supply may be assumed , leading to local coalification maxima but not to a significant loss of reservoir porosity . |
| 18 | The concentration of phospholipids was also higher in the cholesterol gall stone patients but not to a significant degree . |
| 19 | The relative distribution of vesicular cholesterol in hepatic bile of the cholesterol gall stone patients was higher than that of the gall stone free patients , but not to a significant extent ( 42.3 ( 14.9 ) % v 21.9 ( 21.0 ) % ) . |
| 20 | Previous studies have shown that hepatic bile from cholesterol gall stone patients provides a greater total lipid concentration but not to a significant degree compared with controls . |
| 21 | Britain 's church life has been compared not to a virgin landscape but to a garden which has been planted already . |
| 22 | Not to a Jewish God , not to a Christian one , not in Hebrew or English but in his native Polish , and to whatever power it was that made the stars shine , and the clouds drift , a lone wolf howl and an eagle fly free over wild country . |
| 23 | It refers only to the cause of a difference not to a whole course of development . |
| 24 | We must sustain the infrastructure of the arts in this time of recession by spreading the funds available to all forms of the arts and not to a select few with a special clout . |
| 25 | Unlike the previous exhibitions in the series , this is the first devoted not to a royal court 's culture but to a culture based on a city 's commercial strength . |
| 26 | That he thought this possible is suggested by his comments on Frazer whom he saw not as an investigator of a remote and hence irrelevant past , but as someone whose researches are like Freud 's , of apparently universal application , applying not to a particular historical period but to ‘ the soul ’ . |
| 27 | When Boniface was consecrated bishop by Pope Gregory II in 722 , it was not to a particular see , but to a very wide commission of preaching to heathens , such as , for instance , the Aquitanian St Amand had had in northern Gaul during the previous century . |
| 28 | People who own a property have more freedom to engage in the ‘ all-American leisure style ’ if their house belongs to them and not to a public or private landlord . |
| 29 | This does erupt , but not to a defined time schedule . |
| 30 | During the afternoon she worked hard and realised almost with dismay that she was going home not to a comfortable evening by the fire but to yet another Lenten service at which her uncle was to be the preacher . |