Example sentences of "not [be] a [noun] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The resolution , which had been given provisional approval on Tuesday night , declared the Congress 's support for fundamental economic reform and pledged there would not be a return to the Communist administrative-command system . |
| 3 | The development of the law of peace along these lines would not be a return to the acceptance of the legality of armed conflict as an instrument of national policy , but it would involve the articulation of a theory of the just war , however dangerous this may seem . |
| 4 | It is surely reasonable that taxes should be designed to be easy and cheap to collect , difficult to avoid and should not be a discouragement to the enterprise and effort of those paying them . |
| 5 | If possible , any reference to subtenants , licensees and casual callers ( eg customers ) should be deleted and there should most certainly not be a reference to the avoidance of the policy by acts or omission of other tenants in a multi-occupied building or shopping centre . |
| 6 | That this was a problem of significance is suggested by the request of bishop Dalmatius of Rodez , that his successor should not be a stranger to the diocese . |
| 7 | The novelist must not be a party to the bad habits of the reader . |
| 8 | The chief constable can not be a party to the appeal , unless he formerly objected to the original application ( Hutcheon , cit . ) . |
| 9 | While , therefore , the performance may not be a detriment to the promisee , it is certainly a benefit to the promisor . |
| 10 | According to Levi these " understandings " included the following : ( i ) Israel would not be obliged to accept the principle of " land for peace " ; ( ii ) the conference would have no power to make decisions and would not be used as a forum for appeal or discussion ; ( iii ) negotiations would be direct and without preconditions and would be aimed at a peace treaty ; ( iv ) the PLO would not be a partner to the process and the Palestinians would be represented by a joint delegation with Jordan ; ( v ) the UN observer at the conference would be silent and would be a personal representative of the UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar ; ( vi ) a representative of the European Communities ( EC ) would attend the opening session of the conference ; ( vii ) the USA would not allow a parallel conference to take place in the UN Security Council ; and ( viii ) the Soviet Union would renew full diplomatic ties with Israel before the start of a conference . |
| 11 | Two members of the Warnock Committee dissented from the majority to the extent of permitting surrogacy as a treatment for childlessness under the general supervision of a licensing authority ; and they also suggested that payment to a surrogate mother should not be a barrier to the child being adopted by the commissioning couple . |
| 12 | Largely at the prompting of the Swiss representative , Professor Volken , who raised the issue as one of principle ( Switzerland , not being a party to the Convention , had no actual practical experience ) , the Commission considered it desirable that the words ‘ civil or commercial matters ’ should be interpreted in an ‘ autonomous ’ manner , without reference exclusively either to the law of the state of origin or to that of the state of destination , or to both laws cumulatively . |
| 13 | But , alone , he ca n't be a threat to the nation . ’ |