Example sentences of "not [vb pp] [prep] a [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This invariably only occurs when the mulch is allowed to pack and remain undisturbed — mulching is not intended as a boon to lazy gardening by putting an end to the need for hoeing . |
| 2 | It is not intended as a guide to the relative merits of competing products — Which ? magazine , with its comparative testing reports , fills that role — but rather as a guide to the tools , materials and techniques needed for home plumbing and to the various plumbing jobs around the home , including the installation of central heating . |
| 3 | In the March 1989 issue of Digest , Seitz posed the question , ‘ Is Greg Norman Overrated ? ’ replaced Jeff Sluman 's name with the like of Alf Padgham ( which I 'm sure was not intended as an insult to the Padgham family ) and concluded that Norman was , indeed , overrated — ‘ for now ’ . |
| 4 | They are not examined with a view to appraisal which might require adjustments to concepts of syllabus design to accommodate them . |
| 5 | Herbal cigarettes are not recommended as an aid to giving up smoking because they contain both tar and carbon monoxide . |
| 6 | A commitment to pensions means nothing if it is not matched by a commitment to low inflation . |
| 7 | The Court of Appeal allowed an appeal by the appellant , who was not named as a party to the action , against an order that he was liable to pay £861 with costs . |
| 8 | Again , while these books are in the ‘ horror ’ genre which the twentieth century has made its own , they are not written without an eye to their context in literary history beyond their descent from Mary Shelley 's Frankenstein and the Gothic novel . |
| 9 | However , R/3 is not seen as a competitor to R/2 : ‘ It ( R/2 ) will exist as long as IBM is still investing in mainframes , ’ commented Plattner . |
| 10 | Numbers of Americans and Britons have doubled in the past decade but , at 40,000 and 11,000 respectively , they are not seen as a threat to the social fabric in the same way as the Iranians and other Asians . |
| 11 | From this point of view the state is not seen as a threat to freedom , but is rather regarded as a vehicle for securing broad community and individual rights against the power . |
| 12 | Lung cancer was not seen as a sequel to smoking until the middle of the twentieth . |
| 13 | The proposal , from Notre Dame College , a Catholic college in Glasgow , was received sympathetically , but was not approved at a visit to the College in December . |
| 14 | I should not pretend that my personal motivation in studying social policy is not linked with a commitment to non-revolutionary movement towards social equality . |
| 15 | Not rushed in a car to the church-yard |
| 16 | It would be independent of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) structure , but Kohl said that the co-operation with France would not affect his country 's commitments to NATO and Mitterrand said that the corps was not meant as a rival to NATO . |
| 17 | Could I also ask you to ensure that the debris from the hedge-cutting is removed from the highway and not left as a hazard to cyclists . |
| 18 | Because decision-makers in the political arena have conflicting objectives , policy measures are not chosen with a view to maximizing some conception of social welfare , but emerge as the result of implicit and explicit bargaining between the political interests . |