Example sentences of "due not [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But its failure was due not primarily to the way it performed its functions , but to the nature of those functions . |
| 2 | That , however , was due not just to the complexity of turning the Political Community treaty into reality , but to the problems that the Six were facing in getting the EDC off the ground . |
| 3 | To have won the best single play award was a major coup , due not just to the craft of the makers but at least partly to the strength of the story of the Trawsfynydd shepherd bard who became a reluctant soldier and died in battle before knowing he had achieved his life 's ambition of winning the National Eisteddfod chair at the Birkenhead festival in 1917 . |
| 4 | The fact that Northern Ireland has weathered the recession better than any other region in the United Kingdom is due , to an extent , to the Government 's policies ; but it is due not least to the resourcefulness , intelligence and dedication of business people in Northern Ireland . |
| 5 | That Ronchey 's move has been made now is due not only to the changed political climate , but also to the fact that the Minister is not a career politician like his recent , ineffective predecessors , but an independent , educated man ( he was a distinguished political journalist before being invited to join the government ) , who instead of getting tied up in his Ministry 's bureaucratic shibboleths , has collected an enlightened group of advisors around him , including the independent scholar Federico Zeri , who enjoys star status in Italy , and Mirella Baracco , the energetic founder of the private ginger group , Napoli 99 , which is managing to get long-closed monuments and churches in that city open to the public . |
| 6 | His success was due not only to the quality of his pens , backed by a five-year warranty , but also to his extensive advertising and publicity efforts . |
| 7 | This was much in vogue in the 1960s , due not only to the fashionable ideas of Marshall McLuhan , but the more serious earlier work by Wiener ( 1948 ) and Shannon and Weaver ( 1949 ) , but as time has passed doubts have grown not so much about its existence , but rather whether it does not constitute two distinct fields of machine and human communication , for which information theory can not provide a unifying paradigm . |
| 8 | On a basically cylindrical figure like the hawk-priestess 's the swelling forms are modelled with far greater strength and subtlety , due not only to the slightly later date and much larger scale : this is the work of a great sculptor . |
| 9 | For the present situation is due not only to the Magoo-like myopia of Washington and its incompetence in the affairs of any part of the globe not actually State-side , startling though these are . |
| 10 | The popularity of Wade 's sculpture was probably due not only to the fact that it was always comprehensible but that it was both ennobling and restrained in equal measure . |