Example sentences of "[verb] not [be] a [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soviet interest in foreign technology therefore has not been a response to detente , but to perceptions of internal need , and increases in trade flows have not always coincided with greater political relaxation . |
| 2 | It c it certainly has n't been a drawback to me . |
| 3 | Do not be a disappointment to me , Huy . ’ |
| 4 | It had not been a response to an immediate military threat , but rather to something fundamentalist and almost intuitive — a feeling that Britain must possess so climacteric a weapon in order to deter an atomically armed enemy , a feeling that Britain as a great power must acquire all major new weapons , a feeling that atomic weapons were a manifestation of the scientific and technological superiority on which Britain 's strength , so deficient in sheer numbers of men , must depend . |
| 5 | France had not been a party to the negotiations , had not enjoyed the same privileged access to US nuclear technology , and possessed neither the submarines to launch Polaris nor the warheads to arm them . |
| 6 | A period when a killer volcano threatens to erupt and in the end does not is a non-event to subsequent generations . |