Example sentences of "not to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jones further argues that if central government believes it can not or should not perform a particular public function , ‘ it would be better if it decentralised not to technocratic quangos but to directly elected local governments ’ . |
| 2 | The technical way in which judicial decisions were made in the colonial courts was alien to indigenous tribunals but not to Sinhalese culture in general . |
| 3 | The same economic and social conditions in the plains area might have led only to loss of soil fertility but not to wholesale soil erosion and environmental collapse . |
| 4 | The Government should address themselves to such wasting of money and not to fictitious ideas about Thomas the Tank Engine . |
| 5 | The prediction of this so-called ‘ judicial ’ astrology referred to the royal court and the state and not to ordinary individuals . |
| 6 | In two lectures in 1857 he attributed crime not to personal depravity but the corrupting tendencies of the law . |
| 7 | did not ‘ think it is open to this court to hold that the rule applies only to damage to adjoining land or to a proprietary interest in land and not to personal injury . ’ |
| 8 | We refer , of course , not to vast numbers of physically appealing American females , but to the stunning vistas of the Norfolk coast , which Richard Denyer has spent the last few years painstakingly photographing |
| 9 | Once we recognize how far classroom competence has its roots in status and recognition , how closely the different elements of teachers ' lives are tied together in a coherent structure of meaning and motivation , then the policy implications lead us not to personality-based initiatives or more careful selection , compulsory redundancy to remove ‘ incompetents ’ from the profession , or redeployment and encouraging early retirement , but to strategies which will improve the levels of reward and recognition in the system in terms of pay , planning time , in-service opportunity and the like , and in terms of positive ( not punitive ) systems of staff support and development . |
| 10 | The statutory limitations in ( i ) and ( ii ) only apply to floating charges and not to fixed charges . |
| 11 | As I emphasized at the beginning , the issue is not just one of zoological taxonomy , it is a problem of ethics , and unless you are prepared to argue that Koko the gorilla might become a Christian , ethics concern rules which apply to human beings but not to non-human beings . |
| 12 | Accidents do occur , and too frequently , usually to climbers on its dangerous cliffs , but these are due to human frailty and misjudgments , not to venomous attacks by the Ben . |
| 13 | It must be realised that the dichotomy : simple/complex only refers to ideal types and not to real societies . |
| 14 | In the middle ages Margaret had had a wonderful time ; women had understood then that it was not to other mothers that you turn in childbirth , it is to those women who have lived it , who have been down between the dragon 's teeth , have travelled the dragons ' pathways and have lurked in the dark and boiling belly of pain , have been chewed and digested and emerged . |
| 15 | No principle is discernible , nor has any been suggested , to explain or justify the giving of corporate status to some but not to other government authorities . |
| 16 | ( The previous version of the Code , which was still in force when Jones was tried , was identical except that it referred only to parades , not to other identification procedures . ) |
| 17 | In any event , at the time of writing , TransAction applies to residential conveyancing , and not to other forms of conveyancing . |
| 18 | ‘ The camera is quite kind to me where it 's not to other people . ’ |
| 19 | Not to other people . |
| 20 | Well it 's self-evident to me but it 's obviously not to , not to other people . |
| 21 | The PGE 2 antibody ( Sigma ) has a cross reactivity of 51% to PGE 1 but not to other eicosanoids . |
| 22 | The unexpected element in the result , however , was that second place went not to Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki but to Stanislaw Tyminski , an emigré businessman who had no previous political experience and was virtually unknown until the last weeks of the campaign . |
| 23 | In the Commons tonight , Jacques Arnold , Conservative MP for Gravesham , through whose constituency the line will run , said the Government had wanted to make a statement about the route on Wednesday but decided not to after Labour threatened to withdraw all cooperation if the statement was made the day after the Budget . |
| 24 | They had no security classification and related , not to naval operations , but to how the Ministry of Defence were dealing with parliamentary questions about the incident . |
| 25 | Although some Scottish lakes had begun to show signs of recovery , this was due to the decline of energy-intensive industries such as iron and steel and not to environmental protection policies . |
| 26 | Following Winship , she relates women 's feelings of powerlessness not to unconscious conflicts , but to their ability actively to subordinate themselves . |
| 27 | It is a diagnosis whose burden is that the supposedly mistaken analysis , of a kind which has persisted through centuries , is owed not to good reason but to a kind of desire . |
| 28 | ‘ My role is not to spare life but to protect my own . |
| 29 | Adjustment also came to be regarded as a problem relevant to deficit and not to surplus countries . |
| 30 | The order of the points in the article corresponds to the progress of an article from submission to eventual publication not to perceived seriousness . |