Example sentences of "were not [noun] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The USA was authorized both by international law and by UN sanctions to intercept shipping destined for Iraq in the wake of the Gulf war , but had no authority to divert shipments bound for Iran or Syria because Iran , North Korea and Syria were not signatories to the Missile Technology Control Regime . |
| 2 | Chapman insisted that his players were not slaves to a system , but merely followed the ‘ fundamental principles of teamwork ’ . |
| 3 | We are very willing to accept that those parts of the judges ' visitorial jurisdiction which were not incident to the administration of justice in the courts passed down through the routes suggested by Sir William and Professor Baker , but in the context of the present case , where the court has for the first time to inquire into the particular function which is being performed , we are not satisfied that the whole of the visitorial jurisdiction passed by this route . |
| 4 | Secondly , it was emphasised that ex hypothesi the responsible third parties — and in particular the solicitors in this case — were not parties to the transaction and received nothing under it . |
| 5 | The basis of these decisions was that strikes would result in unlawful ‘ secondary ’ action involving employers who were not parties to the dispute . |
| 6 | That was , Lord Jauncey said , a clear undertaking by TBL not to exercise its statutory powers for a period that could last for as long as any one of the parties to the agreement remained a shareholder and long after the control of TBL had passed to shareholders who were not party to the agreement . |