Example sentences of "[am/are] not [noun pl] to " in BNC.

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1 Chapels are not improvements to coal houses .
2 The pair are not first-timers to the MPA competition , having won a first prize in the portrait section last year .
3 AI workers are , by and large , naive materialists and mechanists , and for them those are not positions to be justified , but simply assumptions that allow them to get on with the job of constructing mechanical analogues or simulations of ourselves , who are , in Minsky 's memorable phrase , ‘ meat machines ’ .
4 On the sale , the purchaser should not assume any such liabilities as they are not liabilities to the employees .
5 Other nations , which are not signatories to the treaty , are understood to be developing nuclear weapons .
6 If there are possible problems and conditions that make the company worried about how a partner will cope make it clear that you know what they are and that they are not problems to you .
7 Identity , civil , political and social rights and duties , and civic virtue are not elements to be selected on a pick-and-mix basis for the convenience or advantage of a political party .
8 THE five-year-old boys and girls listen attentively as their teacher explains that men who live with men are not figures to be frightened of .
9 They are not alternatives to be balanced off against it .
10 KPMG are not auditors to Target .
11 When the mayor ordered the lobbyists standing round the side of the chamber to move into the public gallery , Cooper protested that they had every right to be there : ‘ They are not peasants to be roped in . ’
12 These are not targets to be met and should not be the basis or a starting point for development plan policies .
13 They do not become parties to the treaty but to the Protocol , while the treaty parties are not parties to the Protocol .
14 ‘ Decisions that resolve disputes between the parties to them , whether by litigation or some other adversarial dispute-resolving process , often have consequences which affect persons who are not parties to the dispute ; but the legal concept of natural justice has never been extended to give such persons as well as the parties themselves rights to be heard by the decision-making tribunal before the decision is reached .
15 In Cheall v. Association of Professional Executive Clerical and Computer Staff [ 1983 ] 2 A.C. 180 , 190 , Lord Diplock said : ‘ Decisions that resolve disputes between the parties to them , whether by litigation or some other adversarial dispute-resolving process , often have consequences which affect persons who are not parties to the dispute ; but the legal concept of natural justice has never been extended to give such persons as well as the parties themselves rights to be heard by the decision-making tribunal before the decision is reached . ’
16 Note 62/3/2 in The Supreme Court Practice 1991 explains that rule 3(2) only applies to a right of a party to recover costs ‘ from any other party to the proceedings ’ and will not apply to the right of a mortgagee to retain costs out of a mortgaged property on redemption or to any other contractual right to costs out of a fund or from persons who are not parties to the proceedings .
17 I suggest to the Solicitor-General that a clear intellectual distinction can be drawn between evidence that relates to those who are parties to a trial and those who are not parties to a trial .
18 But we 're not slaves to healthy eating — it 's all a question of moderation . ’
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