Example sentences of "[was/were] not [noun] to " in BNC.

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31 In Waugh v British Rail Board [ 1980 ] AC 521 the House of Lords decided that where a report , following an inquiry , had been prepared as much to prevent further accidents as to obtain legal advice about potential claims , it was not privileged because its sole or dominant purpose was not submission to a legal adviser in view of litigation .
32 Nothing was omitted , no aspect of her being was not party to this miraculous moment of ultimate sharing , and in the final vibration of the after-shock set up by the last incredible convulsion of ecstasy , she heard Luke gasping her name and understood that she did n't hate him and never had .
33 A Pakistan Foreign Office spokesman said on July 6 , however , that Pakistan was not party to any attempt to evade export controls .
34 A spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Itzhak Shamir said that he did not see " any change or sign of moderation " in the PNC resolutions and that the PLO " was not party to the political process and we will not negotiate with it " .
35 ( See also Norwich City Council v Harvey [ 1989 ] 1 All ER 1180 where a similar clause was held to prevent the imposition of a tortious duty of care on a sub-contractor who was not party to the contract . )
36 Burton had no middle-class expectations , and certainly no desire to ape aristocratic ways he was not heir to .
37 The Ligurian Riviera was n't Italy to her ; she felt in exile once more ; the move had been a failure .
38 It was n't thanks to Lee , though .
39 ‘ But I do n't know where I 'm heading most of the time and there just was n't time to be together .
40 There was n't time to edge away or even think as his mouth possessed her and his hands moved on her body , caressing it beneath the soft folds of her cotton top .
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