Example sentences of "is not a [noun sg] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His efforts to recover them have been hampered by the fact that Britain is not a subscriber to the 1970 UNESCO convention for the return of cultural property to its country of origin . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The James Brothers ( Pembrokeshire Aviation Group , 36pp , illus , sbk , £4.00 inc p&p ) by Paul Williams is not a reference to the infamous Jesse and Frank James of cowboy legend , but tells the story of Howard and Hebbie James from Pembroke , two of Wales ’ aviation pioneers . |
| 6 | For the rich the cost of legal services is not a barrier to the use of lawyers . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | An example of such a provision is common Article 2 of the Geneva Red Cross Conventions , which provides that the parties shall be bound by the Conventions in relation to a party to the conflict which is not a party to the Conventions ‘ if the latter accepts and applies the provisions thereof ’ . |
| 9 | First , the sending State 's liability arises from acts that may be committed in a country which is not a party to the European Convention on Human Rights . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But the debtor is not a party to the contract . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The object of orders for discovery under the Supreme Court and County Courts Acts is to bring forward the time for the disclosure of relevant documents in a personal injury action by , to use the wording of RSC Ord 24 , r7A , a " likely " party from the stage after action to the stage before action , and to require disclosure after the commencement of proceedings by someone who is not a party to the proceedings at all , eg , a health authority ( Walker v Eli Lilley & Co ( 1986 ) The Times , 1 May ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | We conclude that age itself is not a contraindication to the performance of restorative proctocolectomy with pouch anal anastomosis . |
| 19 | It must be noted that the use of MRDs is not a panacea to the problem of lexicon construction . |