Example sentences of "this [be] [not/n't] [art] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | there is no doubt that this is not a publication to be left around the bedroom floor gathering foot prints and Coca-Cola stains , but then similar neither is it to lie moribund on the coffee table or in the display cabinet . |
| 2 | This is not a reference to problems such as the environment , about which there is a consensus . |
| 3 | As with males , this is not a reference to the side-effects of hot-blooded Latin lovers , but means any object that is found in the body but is not of the body . |
| 4 | This is not a reference to any pet the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger may have had but rather to a ‘ thought experiment ’ he proposed ( a thought experiment is one that can not actually be performed , but the examination of which can reveal scientific truths — or , at least , plausibilities ) . |
| 5 | This is not a decision to be entered into lightly . |
| 6 | This is not a step to be undertaken lightly for it can have serious implications , even if the test result is negative . |
| 7 | But this is not a fact to be taken for granted . |
| 8 | ‘ You may care to consider whether this is not a practice to be followed in the case of Ferranti . ’ |
| 9 | This is not the way to the ladies room in the Kingshouse Hotel . |
| 10 | This is not the way to the ladies room in the Kingshouse Hotel either . |
| 11 | ‘ This is not the way to the Mercury Garden , ’ it announced . |
| 12 | ‘ This is not the way to Sleep of the Just , ’ it said . |
| 13 | But this is not the concourse to the train platforms . |
| 14 | This is not the moment to . |
| 15 | This is not the answer to which the study of the New Testament leads . |
| 16 | This is not the path to Ben Nevis . ’ |
| 17 | This is not the time to be thinking about what the chief instructor is going to think or say . |
| 18 | This is not the time to subject me to some kind of general knowledge quiz … or to make love to me , although heaven knows I 'd like you to . |
| 19 | But this is not an attempt to be controversial for the sake of it . |
| 20 | This is n't a ploy to be recommended . |
| 21 | A scheme to slow down traffic in the area has already been agreed by the County Council , but Chairman of the District Council , Ken Hall , says ‘ this is n't the end to all the problems ’ . |
| 22 | But with United still bottom of the Second Division and staring relegation in the face , the editor of the club 's fanzine says this is n't the time to be selling star players . |
| 23 | This was not a threat to the capitalist class , however , because the leaders of the trade unions and workers parties were normally incorporated into the political system and educated to the imperatives and requirements of capitalism . |
| 24 | The court concluded that this was not a publication to the ‘ public ’ generally , or to a section of the public , even taking into account the fact that the M.P . |
| 25 | But this was not a reversion to the pattern and processes of concentration typical of the 1950s . |
| 26 | For this was not a treatment to be found in Gray 's Anatomy . |
| 27 | For one thing , it was now plain that there was little alternative : during the war Indianization of both the ICS and the Indian army had proceeded at such a pace that more than half the ICS and more than half the officers of the Indian army were Indian , and this was not a process to which the brake could suddenly be applied . |
| 28 | She realised that this was not a woman to whom one chatted about shops or clothes . |
| 29 | A negligently runs over B , who is then run over by C. C's action is unlikely to break the chain of causation , as this is a risk to which A 's negligence exposed B. But if C stole B 's wallet , the court would be unlikely to find A liable , as this was not a risk to which A had exposed B. |
| 30 | This was not the climax to a corny B-film . |