Example sentences of "not [adv] to [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Acorn Computer Ltd chose the Cebit Hannover Fair to launch a German version of its RISC OS 3 operating system : not much to it you may think — just translate the error messages — unfortunately the company had reckoned without the sheer verbosity of the German language — it took five beta versions before all the Achtung ! messages were successfully squeezed into the ROM . |
| 2 | And not only to me . |
| 3 | Further to the very unsatisfactory replies that the Minister has given not only to me but , earlier , to my hon. Friends the Members for Glasgow , Pollok ( Mr. Dunnachie ) and for Carrick , Cumnock and Doon Valley ( Mr. Foulkes ) , may I ask whether the Government consider the Indonesian occupation of East Timor to be illegal ? |
| 4 | When one passes such messages back to one 's constituents , they say , ’ Who will do something to stop this nuisance , which is causing enormous problems not only to me but to the whole area ? ’ |
| 5 | The State Paper Office , a most convenient fire-proof building , which cost the public £50,000 , is , we hear , to be pulled down ; and the mania for pulling down is to extend not only to it , but , in order to complete the ‘ congruity ’ , we should have to Gothicise the Horse Guards , and apply Gothic exteriors to all buildings in the neighbourhood . |
| 6 | At the least , Swegen 's victories are likely to have owed something not only to his doubtless considerable abilities as a commander , but also to an administration capable of utilising resources effectively and controlling the country in his absence . |
| 7 | She has been a delight from the beginning , not only to us , but to all the friends and relatives who have met her . |
| 8 | And if Mobuto was killed on American soil it would prove a severe embarrassment not only to us but to the President as well . |
| 9 | Phaedra , the all-powerful matriarch , conceives a wild passion for her stepson Hippolytus , who rejects her love with speeches hostile not just to her but to the whole erotic faculty . |
| 10 | That 's why this week is so important , not just to me but all the 183 players trying for those cards . ’ |
| 11 | For , of all the doctors I observed , the doctor who used the charity format was the most concerned to emphasise the scientific basis of western medicine , not just to me but to her patients also . |
| 12 | I looked on it as an acknowledgement not just to me but to the programme I represented . |
| 13 | It 's happening all over the country — not just to me . |
| 14 | Well I think my mother did a good job but my father was an alcoholic and that 's , that made a difference , not just to him but to the entire family and I think probably to my own children . |
| 15 | Not just to us , but to everyone connected with this organisation ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Not just to us . ’ |
| 17 | Of course in rural situations this can be overcome by merely peeing outside , a course of action not open to you in the city , unless of course you live in London where it does n't matter much what you do in the street . |
| 18 | I came from Jamaica over twenty years ago and I got married in this country and I have stayed here ever since and although perhaps I might want to go back to Jamaica it 's not home to him . |
| 19 | He reports to a man called Protheroe , not directly to me . |
| 20 | not straight to me at all |
| 21 | Not far to her left she could see the trees which surrounded Kingsbere , with its church where her ancestors lay in their tombs . |
| 22 | You could even say that you should worry if a child reaches the age of seven or eight without ever using swear words , since he or she may not be listening to people perhaps not even to you . |
| 23 | ‘ I wo n't promise to do that , ’ Matilda said , ‘ but I will promise not to talk about it to anyone any more , not even to you . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ So I will not tell — not even to you — in what country they are . |
| 25 | ‘ I would n't only offer tea and biscuits , not even to you . ’ |