Example sentences of "it [be] [not/n't] [vb pp] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This is particularly true for older men and for those with less education , though it 's not related to income level .
2 It 's not exactly a right angle it 's not drawn to scale .
3 Sometimes there was no dieback or decline , at other times there was dieback but it was not connected to pollution , on occasions trees which had lost a third or more of their vegetation were normal .
4 There was some opposition in the Committee but it was not pressed to division , and it seems that the restrictions were reluctantly accepted as part of a package deal to get agreement on the report as a whole .
5 As NASA 's recently launched Cosmic Background Explorer ( COBE ) confirmed , the background looks the same all over the sky , which implies that the cooling fireball which produced it was not given to clumpiness .
6 So the budget fixed for the current year was £20 million and the £7 million underspent in the first two years of the scheme did not go back to the Treasury — it was not lost to computerisation — but was committed to the further development of GP computerisation .
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