Example sentences of "not [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may have held great promise in its early years but it soon became divided and then fragmented , due largely , if not wholly to the same age-old misconception whereby the basis of the religion is the assumption of the existence of a completely undefined ‘ god ’ , in this case the ancient ‘ god ’ of the Jews . |
| 2 | Some people , brought up in the expectation of forging a career and getting near the top if not right to the top in their profession , may be deeply committed to their work . |
| 3 | He was more involved with the businesses and the actual mergers than Mr Milken ever was , but not necessarily to the good . |
| 4 | In short , if you crept up behind a chameleon and shouted ‘ boo ’ it would respond by changing colour but not necessarily to the colour of its surroundings . |
| 5 | All these questions relate to a captain 's last Test as captain , not necessarily to the last Test in which he played . |
| 6 | However , if there is no free charge in the space between the conductors , and strictly for two-dimensional problems , there is a method to which the adjective " general " might be attached , a method that provides plenty of answers but not necessarily to the questions asked . |
| 7 | This is an advantage to the consumer , but not necessarily to the manufacturer , who may well have made both ! |
| 8 | However , Davis and Latter ( 1989 ) concluded that such developments are not necessarily to the benefit of any other centre , and orderly removal of excess capacity should be seen as a normal component of London 's evolution . |
| 9 | - , and to applications ( such as PipeDream ) , but not necessarily to the filing system . |
| 10 | Far too much attention goes to the final judgements readers offer on the text , not enough to the context within which such remarks are generated . |
| 11 | Too much attention had been given to the short-term goals of profitability and not enough to the long-term effects on the environment of industrial waste , chemical spillage and oil and petrol pollution . |
| 12 | The Body Shop had brought a complaint against the Board , claiming that it was prejudging the Commission 's view , and that it was paying too much attention to industrial lobby groups and not enough to the concerns of consumers and environmental organisations . |
| 13 | more than seemed to be indicated in the figures that we 've got , because Buck 's figures for the extent of supplementary income are I know they 're significant but they 're not enough to the kinds of levels people had been living at . |
| 14 | provides counselling and general family support , the Link Project deals with drug-related problems and gives general advice , while ACET provides practical home care not only to the Portsmouth area but also along the South Coast . |
| 15 | Equally plainly , in this view disobedience is literally world-shattering ; to transgress or deviate from the law of nature , to ‘ fail , or swerve ’ ( i. 185 ) from one 's allotted course , is a perversion which brings ruin not only to the transgressive agent , but to every other dependent entity . |
| 16 | It was not long before the dynamics of politics made such niceties quite irrelevant , The bulk of the Labour party came out in opposition , not only to the National Government , but to any economies , even those which the Labour Cabinet had agreed . |
| 17 | Commitment not only to the extended family but also to the nuclear , two-parent family will diminish as men fail to adjust to the aspirations of educated women , and more women follow the long-established practice in coastal west Africa of running their own households . |
| 18 | ‘ And it was , in my view , the lack of sufficiently rigorous and enquiring approach which led not only to the failure to appreciate that there was a Jersey partnership but also to some other of the faults I have identified . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It was , in my view , the lack of a sufficiently rigorous and enquiring approach which led not only to the failure to appreciate that there was a Jersey partnership but also to some others of the faults I have identified . ’ |
| 20 | Ask questions : listen , too , not only to the answers but the Head 's tone of voice — is he courteous and do you get the impression that he will be approachable in the future if your child has a problem which need to be discussed ? |
| 21 | And that , I reflected on the final leg , enveloped in air-conditioned heat and six-speaker stereo sound , is why the Discovery is so uniquely suited , not only to the rough and tumble of off-road riding , but also to the equal rigours of life in Knightsbridge and Notting Hill Gate . |
| 22 | To do so was to court death and to surrender , not only to the hurricane , but to surrender a nation , however small , into the hands of killers . |
| 23 | A person who is mentally handicapped is just as much a member of society as anyone else and , like anyone who possesses a disability or impairment , is entitled not only to the same rights and services as society as a whole , but also to special needs and facilities which Britain , as a relatively affluent nation , should be able to provide for the care of disadvantaged people . |
| 24 | Perversely , it was Marx 's anarchist adversary , Michael Bakunin , who displayed greater sensitivity not only to the position of the Slavs in 1848 , but also to the close relationship of nationalism and peasant radicalism at that time — ‘ I demand only one thing : that every people , that every tribe , great and small , be given the full opportunity and right to act according to its will ’ . |
| 25 | Even so , Jordan 's importance in a peace settlement may now be secondary not only to the Palestinians , but also to Syria . |
| 26 | Once , the oral tradition ensured that knowledge went not only to the brain but to the heart , to become the synthesis from within . |
| 27 | The basic principles of correction and praise apply not only to the well-balanced puppy , but also to the adult dog who has been acquired second-hand . |
| 28 | He is a liability , not only to the family , but also to the breed . |
| 29 | They must not be allowed to train a new and superior élite , and free places in them ( when and where they are introduced ) should go not only to the cleverest but to those who need a boarding education . |
| 30 | Let me repeat the thesis being developed : namely , that marriage as an institution should be extended , on the basis of the argument presented , not only to the transsexual , but also to homosexual unions . |