Example sentences of "but [not/n't] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then in paragraph three forty he goes on to s to point out that the law er er which was then recently established was that auditors due owe a duty of care to their client company and the whole body of share holders but not to individual share holders and not to non share holding depositors . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The PGE 2 antibody ( Sigma ) has a cross reactivity of 51% to PGE 1 but not to other eicosanoids . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Office is an avenue to material well-being ; but not to great wealth ’ ( Miliband 1977 , p. 112 ; see Deutscher 1969 ) . |
| 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 | The mechanism would apply to manufactures and processed agricultural products and capital goods , but not to agricultural raw materials . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Civil legal aid is available for all proceedings under the Children Act 1989 but not to local authorities , the NSPCC , guardians ad litem or anyone acting in a representative , fiduciary or official capacity . |
| 10 | The B antibodies 16818–2 and BRIC 86 were inhibited by oligosaccharides involving a fucose attached to Β galactose , but not to linear disaccharides or to trisaccharides without the attached fucose . |
| 11 | As my colleague Charles Spencer describes on our arts pages , Frances de la Tour and Berwick Kaler spent an acrobatic night undermining Catholicism , but not to universal delight . |
| 12 | Basal UOS pressure is very labile , responding to the child 's level of arousal and to oesophageal distention , but not to oesophageal acidification . |
| 13 | But specific strategies were sadly amissing , for few there were experienced soldiers , used enough to inter-clan battle and feud but not to full-scale national warfare against the English might , as their fathers had learned to be . |
| 14 | The US International Trade Commission has upheld the ridiculous decision that Japanese manufacturers are dumping active matrix liquid crystal displays on the US market to the detriment of a handful of tiny US manufacturers that could never meet the demand from the likes of Apple Computer Inc and IBM Corp , but that alleged dumping of electroluminescent displays has not hurt the US electronics industry ; the active matrix displays carry prohibitive 62.7% tariffs , which apply to imported screens but not to assembled machines that include them , while the electroluminescent displays carried only a 7% tariff . |
| 15 | In most countries women are glad to have jobs in factories and to earn cash , however tedious the work and however low their earnings are relative to male wages ( but not to previous or alternative female pay ) . |