Example sentences of "not [adv] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the 1st May an odd selection of individuals , myself included , set out to travel not only South to Totnes Castle , but also back in time about 530 years . |
| 2 | It is not easy to survey the many areas in which there has been not only response to Dei Verbum , but also developments traceable to its influence , yet going far beyond what most of the Council 's members could have foreseen . |
| 3 | The conquest brought not only soldiers to Latin America but also priests and missionaries , for the christianising mission of the Spaniards and Portuguese was vital to their cause . |
| 4 | In adopting a broad search formulation strategy to access the library catalogue , the searcher not only attempts to " match " the system 's language but also places his expressed need in a broader context . |
| 5 | We may need to look , therefore , at adaptation in various ways , not only adjustment to general social norms but also to deviant and unorthodox sub-cultures as well as to self-aspirations and family wishes . |
| 6 | Many of the papers carried photographs of Dobson and Creed side by side , Dobson 's arm around Creed 's shoulder , as if Creed was not only heir to the business , but also a son . |
| 7 | John Paul 's pontificate may then appear as , in part , aberration , while a pluralist Catholic Christianity will be revealed as not only heir to the central religious tradition of the West , but as able to respond without losing its core identity to the needs both of a truly world Church and of the ongoing transformation of human consciousness and intellectual understanding . |
| 8 | Not only joy to the sheep that 's been rescued , but it brings joy in heaven . |
| 9 | ‘ Access ’ has been a key-word in the discussion of the handicapped in libraries , not only access to the building but also access to the materials and services and to the information , knowledge , and entertainment contained within those materials . |
| 10 | More than 68,000 persons were killed and more than 2 million injured on British roads in the 10 years prior to the outbreak of war , but Tripp was able to advocate not just improvements to major roads as one way of reducing the number of fatalities and accidents , but complete road systems . |
| 11 | We must demonstrate that poverty , unemployment , low pay and low skills are not just barriers to individual opportunity , but that they undermine the capacity for wealth creation . |
| 12 | It is also subject to all kinds of criticism ; not just listeners to Radio Four , but the employers of graduates speak disapprovingly of the way the English language is spoken . |
| 13 | If they come up with a question maybe just find out what 's being it erm not just reaction to a particular behaviour , but asking them how the feeling , you know maybe pointing to the bit in their body that 's actually feeling butterflies or whatever and trying to help them to express the fears and , more importantly , to make them concrete in terms of play , drawing , or acting it out . |
| 14 | Good doctors aim to add life to your years , not just years to your life . |
| 15 | Mrs Burrows wrote warning her daughter that " women are not always kind to each other " . |
| 16 | The imaginary conversations he held as he travelled the country roads were not simply distractions to while away his lonely journeys but rehearsals of the arguments he would use to outsmart the hunters and send them back home empty-handed . |
| 17 | It is not simply information to be taken at face value . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , the law is not particularly kind to the home-owner who finds himself the victim of a negligent surveyor ; in most cases he will not receive full compensation for his loss . |
| 19 | Californian sunshine was not particularly kind to the English complexion , and circumstances had evidently not treated Laura well . |
| 20 | The exclusive " Annie Thompson " design had only a small flap — that was adequate in normal circumstances — but near disaster in an emergency , when I could not even resort to the era of the " Flapper " in her cami-knickers , and go down one leg . |
| 21 | The attack was so sudden that Riven had not even time to be afraid . |
| 22 | Plainly there are different degrees of misbehaviour and the partners will not readily resort to the extreme sanction of expulsion , but it is in the interests of the firm that a tendency to depart from proper professional standards be investigated and warnings handed down at an early stage before serious harm is done . |
| 23 | We also hear , incidentally , that Dr Mowlam and Tory candidate Robert Goodwill shared the last waltz ( ‘ not quite cheek to cheek ’ says the gallant Goodwill ) at the Langbaurgh council 's chairman 's ball on Friday . |
| 24 | Through them I first learned ( as Leslie learned in the army ) that bathrooms and books were not then things to be taken for granted — that reading was not an instinct like breathing and eating , but a skill sometimes painfully acquired . |
| 25 | Out of bewilderment at such diversity of views and the need to promote some level of harmony between them , the view has been quite widespread that differences are entirely due to cultural context and are not therefore contradictions to be resolved . |