Example sentences of "[not/n't] to [adj] " 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 | However , in order that the scheme could , if successful , be relatively easily incorporated by local authorities into existing patterns of service provision it was decided not to substitute but to see whether it was possible to work alongside other services . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It 's not to late to book I think it says something about surcharge after sixth of March or something on the form does n't it ? |
| 5 | To theorize about life is not to live . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I 'm not to keen on striking it out . |
| 8 | For those tha who are not to familiar with , the initials P P G , it stands for planning policy guidance , and there are a whole series of these guidance notes produced by the Department of the Environment for the er advice guidance of , well not only the local planning authorities but anyone else who is interested in the development business , and they are expressions of , I suppose government policy , er and their attitudes towards various aspects , whether it 's countryside , housing , trans or transport , and they do pro provide a useful backcloth , in fact an extremely valuable backcloth to the way in which er this matter should be considered , erm I know from the submission which North Yorkshire County Council have used they would say that the fact they have n't had regard to all this er , but I would like to carry on the discussion against that background , and could you direct your thinking at this stage about the need for a new settlement in the light of the principles spelt out in P P G three and particularly paragraph thirty three . |
| 9 | The Government should address themselves to such wasting of money and not to fictitious ideas about Thomas the Tank Engine . |
| 10 | The mechanism would apply to manufactures and processed agricultural products and capital goods , but not to agricultural raw materials . |
| 11 | The prediction of this so-called ‘ judicial ’ astrology referred to the royal court and the state and not to ordinary individuals . |
| 12 | ‘ He feels the same as us , that it is best not to sedate her , but let her grief come out now , ’ she said . |
| 13 | it 's not to deep , it fits in . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | In two lectures in 1857 he attributed crime not to personal depravity but the corrupting tendencies of the law . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The statutory limitations in ( i ) and ( ii ) only apply to floating charges and not to fixed charges . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It must be realised that the dichotomy : simple/complex only refers to ideal types and not to real societies . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ( 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 . ) |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ The camera is quite kind to me where it 's not to other people . ’ |
| 26 | Not to other people . |
| 27 | On the Treaty on European Union the European Council agreed on an annexed decision and three declarations which were to apply " exclusively to Denmark and not to other existing or acceding member states " . |
| 28 | The PGE 2 antibody ( Sigma ) has a cross reactivity of 51% to PGE 1 but not to other eicosanoids . |
| 29 | Well it 's self-evident to me but it 's obviously not to , not to other people . |
| 30 | In any event , at the time of writing , TransAction applies to residential conveyancing , and not to other forms of conveyancing . |