Example sentences of "not [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Thatcher years were not kind to Lord Weinstock , GEC 's legendary managing director . |
| 2 | From the early summer of 1916 , the growth point of pacifist protest was not resistance to conscription , but the demand for a negotiated peace . |
| 3 | Slipper of the Yard objected to some passages in Delano 's book but did not resort to litigation . |
| 4 | If you are not sure about the right way to connect something in a mains power supply circuit , do not resort to trial and error . |
| 5 | His hatred for those who crossed him having once shared the bonds of mutual loyalty was unbounded , but equally he never forgot old services performed , and , apart from the ‘ Night of the Long Knives ’ in June 1934 , he did not resort to purges within the Party . |
| 6 | Even in the Petitioners case , where less emphasis is placed upon status , the Court does not resort to treaty arguments and indeed could not do so , for there was no treaty right of petition . |
| 7 | Use this where your employee has not entitlement to SSP or where that entitlement has run out but he or she is still sick . |
| 8 | Failure to observe the requirements laid down in the byelaws usually leads to a fine whether or not prejudice to health or a nuisance occurs . |
| 9 | The stitches are always transferred from back to front , not side to side , so I have never encountered any problem with bias knitting . |
| 10 | The Lords in MPC v Caldwell [ 1982 ] AC 341 did not advert to deception offences when determining the law of objective recklessness . |
| 11 | As mirror of reality , not Monument to Creativity . |
| 12 | Double-check you have got everything the right way round so that the artwork is not back to front , then close up the UV light box and switch on . |
| 13 | Of the other Iberian kingdoms , Léon was not subject to Rome , but the marriage of Alfonso IX of Léon to a daughter of Sancho I of Portugal threatened the security of the king of Castile , who obliged Alfonso to separate and to take a Castilian princess , Berengaria , instead . |
| 14 | In general , although offer letters are not legally binding , the buyer 's solicitors will insist that at least those clauses discussed below are not subject to contract , but are legally binding obligations on the parties . |
| 15 | It is the wider satisfaction of a universe which is precisely not subject to order , but has in it uncertainty , novelty , and escape from the past , all somehow agreeably constrained by probability . |
| 16 | When sold later in life , they are not subject to tax again but a dealer is subject to paying 15/115ths of his profit . |
| 17 | ‘ Lovers give not thought to actions and words , joy and sorrow , past and future . |
| 18 | Gymnemins from Gymnema sylvestre ( Asclepiadaceae ) remove the sense of sweetness in some mammalian tongues , but are not deterrent to caterpillars and have less effect on dogs or rabbits than they do on apes . |
| 19 | Happily married couples , he thought , stood not face to face , absorbed in each other , but back to back , looking outwards upon the world . |
| 20 | Now that 's not face to face that is on the phone . |
| 21 | It should be stressed that it is not nearness to industry per se which drew agricultural wages upwards , but proximity to the expanding newer industrial regions . |
| 22 | Possibly this shortfall was met by grain production on the Lasithi Plain , but if Lasithi was not tributary to Mallia , the city would have had to look overseas for grain , ‘ buy ’ it from neighbouring territories , or go hungry . |
| 23 | Not earth to earth but sod to sod , |