Example sentences of "[is] not [verb] [art] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gordon Craig once said that ‘ a bookplate is to the book what a collar is to the dog ’ — a wisecrack not wholly true , since the purpose of the plate is not to enable a book to be led round by its owner , or even for it to be returned by the police when lost . |
| 2 | It 's surely because the right honourable gentleman is not providing the money to Welsh local authorities . |
| 3 | This is not to belittle the benefits to investors in book manufacturing and bookselling of operational efficiency , strong financial disciplines and commercial alertness . |
| 4 | Er it is not asking the panel to n you know to draft a rite that would used and I , I would interpret this to mean that it 's asking the panel to look up the theological propriety if you like of such a rite and bring forward suggestions which would then be passed for implementation , if so decided , to the panel on worship . |
| 5 | The problem is not to find an alternative to a system that once worked well but no longer does ; the problem is to make it work efficiently for the first time in its 3,000-year history . |
| 6 | ‘ Is not love a thing to be proud of ? ’ |
| 7 | That 's not counting the damage to transformers and other equipment from the nests that escape our attention , or the fact that we have to deal with similar problems in Caithness and Shetland . ’ |
| 8 | Weber , by the way , is n't making the jump to the newly merged company . |