Example sentences of "be not [verb] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I mean , how do we know you were n't playing Stairway To Heaven , Smoke On The Water or Eruption ?
2 Here the rhetorical approach is not drawing attention to arguments between cultures , or between ideologies , but the arguments which occur within cultures or ideologies .
3 In this case , then , to write about reality is not to relate word to thing , but text to text .
4 ‘ I think I should warn you : Jean-Claude 's not writing music to Frontenac 's libretto .
5 Wheeler , who in the past had been unprepared for much in life , was not leaving placement to chance .
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