Example sentences of "not [be] a [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prince Charles has not been a frequent visitor to the province . |
| 2 | It had not been an auspicious start to the year . |
| 3 | Coleridge told Estlin that his heart ‘ yearned toward the ministry ’ , and he was soon able to convince himself that even his unorthodox beliefs might not be a major obstacle to his acceptance of the post , and the income it would guarantee . |
| 4 | What my right hon. Friend said makes it clear that there will not be a great saving to the Ministry of Defence . |
| 5 | Since GIS are conceptually complex and involve diverse operations ranging from data modelling to geometric transformations , improving the HCI can not be a complete solution to the improvements of GIS use . |
| 6 | Past usage will not be a reasonable guide to expected future usage in the following circumstances : |
| 7 | It may not be a good reason to us , but they must have had a good reason to do it , either family-wise or tension-wise , or because of life in general . |
| 8 | The comparison prompts the question whether some sort of preamble would not be a helpful adjunct to British primary legislation from the point of view of those called upon to interpret and apply it , all the more so in view of the rule ( recently modified ) against referring to Hansard as an aid to interpretation in English courts . |
| 9 | While maintenance may not be a large contributor to running costs , it is still significant and such increases can account for an extra £2–3 per hour . |
| 10 | To this extent , Locke agrees with the scholastic , Thomas Sergeant , that ‘ the way of experiments can not be a true method to science ’ . |
| 11 | There can not be a satisfactory answer to such a question which is short enough for the circumstances , and informative enough to be of any value . |
| 12 | However , they may not be a reliable guide to the distribution of wealth among the living : for instance individuals may transfer some of their wealth to other family members before they die ; moreover those who die tend to be older than other members of the population , and wealth is not equally distributed between age groups . |
| 13 | On the basis of this limited experience of one institution Wood concludes that paper qualifications may not be a reliable guide to likely DipHE performance and that experience of recent pre-entry study does not affect the performance of students . |
| 14 | Cases decided under the 1973 Act may therefore not be a reliable guide to reasonableness under the 1977 Act . |
| 15 | Now governments and cities are starting to listen to economists , who have been telling them for years that the use of road space should not be a free gift to motorists . |
| 16 | As a matter of principle it is submitted that there should not be an absolute bar to adoption in the case of a marriage involving a transsexual . |
| 17 | Property taxes can not be fair because property can not be an absolute guide to people 's income or wealth . |
| 18 | Not being a frequent visitor to the area I have no way of knowing whether this was a freak occurrence . |
| 19 | ‘ Besides not being a proper wife to Bernard , you are also an adulteress . |
| 20 | I ca n't be a proper husband to you . |
| 21 | Still to come , on the Fox Report : Students from the newly reunified Eastern Europe , Eastern Germany , visit Oxford , and say ‘ it would n't be a bad place to work ’ . |