Example sentences of "not [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 From the early summer of 1916 , the growth point of pacifist protest was not resistance to conscription , but the demand for a negotiated peace .
2 Slipper of the Yard objected to some passages in Delano 's book but did not resort to litigation .
3 If you are not sure about the right way to connect something in a mains power supply circuit , do not resort to trial and error .
4 Even in the Petitioners case , where less emphasis is placed upon status , the Court does not resort to treaty arguments and indeed could not do so , for there was no treaty right of petition .
5 Chapels are not improvements to coal houses .
6 Failure to observe the requirements laid down in the byelaws usually leads to a fine whether or not prejudice to health or a nuisance occurs .
7 The stitches are always transferred from back to front , not side to side , so I have never encountered any problem with bias knitting .
8 The Lords in MPC v Caldwell [ 1982 ] AC 341 did not advert to deception offences when determining the law of objective recklessness .
9 As mirror of reality , not Monument to Creativity .
10 Double-check you have got everything the right way round so that the artwork is not back to front , then close up the UV light box and switch on .
11 KPMG are not auditors to Target .
12 In general , although offer letters are not legally binding , the buyer 's solicitors will insist that at least those clauses discussed below are not subject to contract , but are legally binding obligations on the parties .
13 It is the wider satisfaction of a universe which is precisely not subject to order , but has in it uncertainty , novelty , and escape from the past , all somehow agreeably constrained by probability .
14 When sold later in life , they are not subject to tax again but a dealer is subject to paying 15/115ths of his profit .
15 Happily married couples , he thought , stood not face to face , absorbed in each other , but back to back , looking outwards upon the world .
16 Now that 's not face to face that is on the phone .
17 It should be stressed that it is not nearness to industry per se which drew agricultural wages upwards , but proximity to the expanding newer industrial regions .
18 Not earth to earth but sod to sod ,
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