Example sentences of "not a [noun sg] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 To be sure , there were promises in a very general sense that ‘ My Spirit abides with you : fear not ’ ( Hag. 2:5 ) , but this was an assurance to the people as a whole , not a promise to the individual .
2 Evans concluded that in some developing countries , the foreign multinationals might be a help and not a hindrance to the state .
3 9.14 Compensation on vacating Any statutory right of the Tenant to claim compensation from the Landlord on vacating the Premises shall be excluded to the extent that the law allows Basically , the landlord can deny the tenant statutory compensation ( currently the rateable value of the premises ) if there has been a change of ownership during the last five years of the term prior to its expiration and the assignee is not a successor to the business of the assignor .
4 ‘ A man would have to supply some sort of evidence that he was not a slave to the State , a spy of the KGB .
5 It was argued that the sentencer has failed to give weight to the effect on the appellant 's wife and child if he were deported , and that his good behaviour while on bail indicated that he was not a threat to the country if he remained .
6 The eradication of hunger is not a threat to the well-being of people in the industrialised countries because there is more than enough food for everyone .
7 Too many people have forgotten that a bid , even one opposed by directors , is simply an offer to buy shares , not a struggle to the death .
8 There was some truth in the Don Quixote jibe , but de Gaulle was no Rip Van Winkle : his multipolar system was not a return to the past but an updated , global version of the nineteenth-century European system .
9 But this was not a reversion to the pattern and processes of concentration typical of the 1950s .
10 If we had not a right to the kingdom , we were mere mercenary soldiers .
11 Notably , Novell was not a party to the call .
12 We never attribute any goodwill to the minority interest ( since they are not a party to the transaction ) nor attempt to extrapolate the group 's goodwill to establish a theoretical goodwill attributable to the minority interest .
13 Subsection ( 2 ) is in wide terms , enabling the court to make an order against a person even though he was not a party to the transaction with the company :
14 It would arise where a defendant could not prove , on the balance of probabilities , that his story was correct , that someone else was responsible for causing personal injury or damage to the vehicle taken or to other vehicles and articles , and that he was not a party to the offence .
15 There are a number of treaties of guarantee where the entity most directly affected was not a party to the treaty .
16 A third organisation is defined in the Convention as an ‘ international organisation , not a party to the treaty . ’
17 A dissenting member can not claim material breach of the constitutive treaty by the organisation , since the organisation is not a party to the treaty , although it can make such a claim against other member States .
18 If a program is licensed by a publisher , the program author could be liable in negligence even though he is not a party to the licence agreement .
19 Indeed , if X buys goods and passes them as a gift to Y , those implied terms are of no benefit at all to Y because Y was not a party to the contract of sale , Heil v. Hedges ( 1951 ) ( K.B. ) .
20 It is consideration provided by somebody else , not a party to the contract , which does not ‘ move from the promisee . ’
21 But the debtor is not a party to the contract .
22 If that is so should it make any difference whether the debtor is a party to the agreement ( he is not a party to the contract ) or not ?
23 The plaintiff could not sue in contract because she was not a party to the contract ; it had been her friend who had bought the drink .
24 This provision applies to indemnities of both types ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) identified above , and it is irrelevant that the person entitled to the benefit of the indemnity is not a party to the contract in which it appears .
25 Just as we give more weight to the views of an impartial judge , one who is not a party to the dispute in question , than to a partial one , so we give more weight to an impartial moral opinion , one expressed by a person who is not directly involved in the situation being assessed , than To an interested party .
26 It may be extremely difficult for the landlord to resist a claim by a person at the premises who suffers injury as a result of the landlord 's default and who was not a party to the lease .
27 The section defined secondary action in relation to a trade dispute as arising when a person induces another to break a contract of employment if the employer under the contract of employment is not a party to the trade dispute .
28 Secondary action is action interfering with a contract of employment in one of the ways specified in section 13(1) where the employer under that contract is not a party to the trade dispute .
29 It must be noted that the use of MRDs is not a panacea to the problem of lexicon construction .
30 We conclude that age itself is not a contraindication to the performance of restorative proctocolectomy with pouch anal anastomosis .
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