Example sentences of "[adj] is [adv] a [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | there is no doubt that this is not a publication to be left around the bedroom floor gathering foot prints and Coca-Cola stains , but then similar neither is it to lie moribund on the coffee table or in the display cabinet . |
| 2 | This is not a reference to problems such as the environment , about which there is a consensus . |
| 3 | As with males , this is not a reference to the side-effects of hot-blooded Latin lovers , but means any object that is found in the body but is not of the body . |
| 4 | This is not a reference to any pet the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger may have had but rather to a ‘ thought experiment ’ he proposed ( a thought experiment is one that can not actually be performed , but the examination of which can reveal scientific truths — or , at least , plausibilities ) . |
| 5 | This is not a decision to be entered into lightly . |
| 6 | This is not a step to be undertaken lightly for it can have serious implications , even if the test result is negative . |
| 7 | But this is not a fact to be taken for granted . |
| 8 | ‘ You may care to consider whether this is not a practice to be followed in the case of Ferranti . ’ |
| 9 | But you know the rest — this is just a tribute to three lovely unselfish children , and it may bring back some lovely memories , as it does to Pop and myself . |
| 10 | In context this is just a reply to Pippin 's remark that the song ‘ does not sound altogether encouraging ’ . |
| 11 | This is n't a ploy to be recommended . |
| 12 | Certainly there has been a rapid increase in the number of consultancies offering such services , but this is simply a response to the demand created by the draft EC legislation on environmental audits and the draft British Standard on Environmental Management Systems . |
| 13 | To replace them , for example , would cost something over a million pounds , but this is actually a repair to those er culverts the . |
| 14 | It is , therefore , possible by sheer verbosity to defeat the operation of the rule ; but this is hardly a method to be recommended . |
| 15 | these are recommendations from a joint working party D of E of the erm local authority association and they are to almost unbelievable for us to consider and I can only assume that the that we must remember that this is really a response to what I call Heseltine 's last squeeze which was the idea of executive mayors and so in a sense lip service which has to be paid somewhere along those lines but it does recommend that we think seriously about cabinet govern government about single party committees and I ca n't imagine how anybody in their right minds would argue now that the cabinet government when they see what cabinet government leads to in Westminster and what de facto cabinet government leads to in majority ruled councils up and down the country erm , there is of course a I think a misleading er er brownie point the idea of relaxing restrictions on members allowances but members must realise why that is in there . |
| 16 | This is only a bar to registration if the first mark is registered in respect of " the same goods or description of goods " . |
| 17 | As it is because I have always practised ordinary , normal methods of hygiene , I feel that er fresh food well cooked is not a danger to anybody . |
| 18 | His first volume of poems published in 1764 is essentially a tribute to the gardening skills of his patron , William Shenstone . |
| 19 | All eyes of course will be on Cheltenham where John Taylor will be trying to prove that being black is not a bar to becoming a Conservative Member of Parliament . |
| 20 | The father of ten is now a figurehead to thousands . |
| 21 | 239 is thus a counterexample to assertion ( ii ) , Actually there is only one other positive integer which is not expressible as a sum of eight cubes . |
| 22 | Erm that is n't a constraint to consideration of new settlement sites in the A sixty four corridor . |
| 23 | That is certainly a witness to the fact that there is much that is very fine in it , and it would be foolish to pretend otherwise . |
| 24 | I often wonder what I would be able to achieve if , one year , I did train especially for the indoor meetings , but it would be an error to try that because the indoor is just a side-show to the main events , which are the big outdoor meetings in the summer . |