Example sentences of "not to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If there 's any cruelty involved , ’ Hughes says , ‘ it would be to the foxes , not to the sheep . |
| 2 | Watkins L.J. , at p. 82 , asked where else the Home Secretary could look for guidance as to retribution and deterrence , if not to the judges . |
| 3 | You can be the first men to go there — but not to the South Pole ! |
| 4 | His mother once again took him to the prefectural hospital , not to the university hospital . |
| 5 | Since the aim of adoption must always be to provide a child without parents with an environment which will foster normal development , the commitment must be to the child , not to the parents or to the agency . |
| 6 | It took Ruth a second or two to realise that he was replying to her question , not to the thoughts which whirled around in her head . |
| 7 | The principle appears to be related not to the Crown as such but to the Crown when performing a particular function . |
| 8 | The point had been successfully made that such a case belonged to the Church 's jurisdiction , not to the Crown 's . |
| 9 | On the basis of the above analysis by the Court it might be more accurate to say that the test is a commercial one but that it relates not to the transfer of ownership of enterprises , but to the transfer of economic or organisational activities . |
| 10 | They made their way back , not to the abbey but the castle , Corbett sending ahead one of his escort to ask Wishart for an audience and when they arrived the old , foxy-faced Bishop was waiting for them in his now sweltering chambers , though still swathed in fur-trimmed robes . |
| 11 | Finis to the race , but not to the incidents which marred his season . |
| 12 | Next , in 1590 , came the First Set of Italian Madrigals Englished , not to the sense of the original dittie , but after the affection of the Noate by Thomas Watson , next to Spenser the earliest of the Elizabethan sonneteers ; they are nearly all by Marenzio but also include two fine settings , à 4 and à 6 , of Watson 's own ‘ This sweet and merry month of May ’ by Byrd ‘ composed after the Italian vaine ’ at the poet 's request . |
| 13 | When the clergy tried to calm them , the crowd declared that the valuables belonged to the people , not to the church , so that priests could not give them away . |
| 14 | Mr 's concern related to two sites and two sites alone , not to the principle of insetting . |
| 15 | The Court of Appeal had ruled that whether or not such material might be ‘ beneficial to those who were sexually repressed or perverted or deviant ’ did not make its publication ‘ an object of general concern ’ , since otherwise any form of pornography could be defended on the ground that it was beneficial to some people , if not to the public at large . |
| 16 | Private rights of way apply to an individual or group of individuals and not to the public at large . |
| 17 | For example in an advertising agency discussion about a new campaign to revive a soft drink one person might be trying to solve the problem of how an old drink can be called " new " in any sense ; another person might be trying to solve the problem of how " old " can be made appealing ; arid a third person might be trying to solve the problem of designing a theme that will sell not to the public but to the marketing manager who has to okay the campaign . |
| 18 | not to the public . |
| 19 | I mean , not to the public but the office is . |
| 20 | Not to the priory , they were n't expected there . ’ |
| 21 | The ‘ tariff ’ — a loss of privileges , a fine from a teenager 's pocket money , a telling off — should be proportionate to the misdemeanour , not to the parent 's momentary fit of pique or accumulated sense of frustration and resentment . |
| 22 | In opposing a Bill , however , the opposition ( occasionally it may be a dissident member of the government party ) will move an amendment not to the text of the Bill , but to the motion that the Bill be read a second time ( the motion before the House ) . |
| 23 | A , a , a brief amendment Moderator er to the deliverance , not to the text of the statement . |
| 24 | It is thought that " effective " relates to the entry , not to the possibility of theft , rape , etc . |
| 25 | It is hoped to provide a convincing explanation of why such surrenders of so-called national sovereignty were or were not to the advantage of nations . |
| 26 | Furthermore the court 's alternative conclusion that the profit arose in or derived from the places where these assets were licensed erroneously presupposes that the rights in question had a fixed situs outside Hong Kong whence profits accrued not to the sub-licensees but to the taxpayer . |
| 27 | Capital money was , however , always to be paid , not to the life tenant , but to trustees , who were to hold the money upon the same trusts as those upon which the land had been held . |
| 28 | Moreover , most attention was paid not to the conditions of work as such but to the moral and spiritual degradation said to accompany female employment . |
| 29 | It might be a dangerous feeling , but he would see it was dangerous only to him and not to the girl . |
| 30 | By the time the echo reaches the bat again , the decay in its intensity is proportional , not to the distance of the fly from the bat , not even to the square of that distance , but to something more like the square of the square — the fourth power , of the distance . |