Example sentences of "[conj] not [noun] to " in BNC.

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1 Failure to observe the requirements laid down in the byelaws usually leads to a fine whether or not prejudice to health or a nuisance occurs .
2 ‘ I am sure of that but whether we take them or not remains to be seen .
3 I have come to believe that the soft occult more often than not leads to the hard stuff .
4 However , there is an expectation that children should use English and not Patwa to their parents .
5 ‘ Nurse Dungarvan , this may have slipped your notice , but patients are human beings and not machines to which one can fix tidy little labels .
6 You will also see that we have programmed in the September 1990 Q.T. Day , sot hat in 1990 our year will run from January to December and not September to September as in the past .
7 In these circumstances the courts will find that the plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence but not volens to the risk ( Owens v Brimmell [ 1977 ] QB 859 ) .
8 It only remained then , in this tight little half-hour programme , for David Attenborough to bring us up to date on the mountain gorillas of Rwanda — they are mainly alive and moderately well but not thanks to poachers — and for Mr Soper to have a fleeting swipe at the conservation intentions of the government , and it was all over .
9 Both terms are representations of , but not solutions to , the problem of what constitutes sexual differences .
10 The law says you can marry at 16 , but not consent to homosexual acts until you are 21 .
11 By a notice of appeal dated 13 August 1991 the applicant appealed against that decision of the Divisional Court on the grounds , inter alia , that it had erred ( 1 ) in holding that there was no obligation on Lautro to give the applicant an opportunity to make representations prior to the issue of that notice ; ( 2 ) in asserting that there was a principle of law that a regulatory body should know with precision from whom they must invite representations ; ( 3 ) in perceiving any difficulty in identifying persons who should have been given advance notification , so as to be treated fairly , of any proposals by Lautro to issue a notice since such notification should at least be given to anyone who would be directly affected by such a notice and/or whose conduct was in issue ; ( 4 ) in regarding as apposite the remarks of Lord Diplock in Cheall v. Association of Professional Executive Clerical and Computer Staff [ 1983 ] 2 A.C. 180 , 190A since the non-application of the legal concept of natural justice to all persons effected by but not parties to a dispute was not and had never been in issue ; and ( 5 ) in failing to have regard to the absence of any rights of appeal according to the rules of Lautro in deciding whether the principle of natural justice applied .
12 Interestingly , Egypt described the Memorandum as changing the United States ' role from one of ‘ partner ’ ( but not party to the Peace Treaty ) to one of ‘ arbiter ’ which it considered inappropriate .
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