Example sentences of "[was/were] not a [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He claimed scientific evidence had shown low levels of salmonella in water were not a risk to health .
2 But Mr Riley argued that the parking on Hollyhurst Road was not a hazard to pedestrians who had to cross between parked cars instead they slowed down the speeding cars .
3 It was not a call to workaholism and a sense of achievement , but to an abiding relationship with him .
4 It was not a conversion to Christianity .
5 During his speech at the inauguration ceremony , Sharon said that Jewish settlement was not an obstacle to peace , but was instead an obstacle to war .
6 The three parties fought the elections for the Constitutional Convention as a coalition with a joint manifesto which-emphasised that Northern Ireland should remain indefinitely as an integral part of the United Kingdom and that power would not be shared with Republicans although that was not an objection to Catholics as such .
7 ‘ It was n't a subject to Plato , ’ said Barfield , ‘ it was a way .
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