Example sentences of "[noun] [be] not [noun] to " in BNC.
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1 | They do not become parties to the treaty but to the Protocol , while the treaty parties are not parties to the Protocol . |
2 | When a problem is based on a rule — e.g. the rule in Derry v. Peek or Rylands v. Fletcher — it is usually advisable to state the whole rule in a sentence or two , even though some parts of the rule are not material to the problem . |
3 | The USA was authorized both by international law and by UN sanctions to intercept shipping destined for Iraq in the wake of the Gulf war , but had no authority to divert shipments bound for Iran or Syria because Iran , North Korea and Syria were not signatories to the Missile Technology Control Regime . |
4 | Books were not possessions to be accumulated and , in this town without a library , reading really meant newspapers and magazines . |
5 | The result is not death to the unsuccessful competitor but few or no offspring . ’ |
6 | A Pakistan Foreign Office spokesman said on July 6 , however , that Pakistan was not party to any attempt to evade export controls . |
7 | Chapels are not improvements to coal houses . |
8 | Double-check you have got everything the right way round so that the artwork is not back to front , then close up the UV light box and switch on . |
9 | Of the other Iberian kingdoms , Léon was not subject to Rome , but the marriage of Alfonso IX of Léon to a daughter of Sancho I of Portugal threatened the security of the king of Castile , who obliged Alfonso to separate and to take a Castilian princess , Berengaria , instead . |
10 | Phillipon told reporters that Quebec and Nova Scotia are not party to the framework since they had broken ranks with a 1991 provinical agreement to disdain unilateral compensation by earlier this year unveiling vastly discrepant compensation programmes . |
11 | The Thatcher years were not kind to Lord Weinstock , GEC 's legendary managing director . |
12 | Marian already felt her captors were not strangers to her . |
13 | The House of Lords held that since the ship owners were not party to any contract with the tug owners ( the arrangements had been made by the charterers of the ship ) the secondary action was , again , illegal . |
14 | In fact , the 1907 Hague Conventions were not formally applicable to that conflict , because several of the belligerents were not party to them , and under the so-called ‘ general participation clause ’ the Hague Conventions could not therefore apply even between those who were parties . |
15 | The Ligurian Riviera was n't Italy to her ; she felt in exile once more ; the move had been a failure . |
16 | Chapman insisted that his players were not slaves to a system , but merely followed the ‘ fundamental principles of teamwork ’ . |
17 | Merkur Island were not parties to any contract for the supply of towage services , so it was not possible to say that the purpose of the action was to prevent the supply of services between an employer who was party to the dispute ( Merkur Island ) and the employer under the contract of employment to which the secondary action related ( the tug owners ) . |
18 | But the angels of hell are not party to the councils of heaven . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | It is difficult to believe that the historians were not party to such constructions , although Goody might justifiably envisage that such honourable men as Thucydides would have been shocked if his material had been manipulated in this way by the politicians . |
22 | The Moor is n't kind to those lightly clad . " |
23 | 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 . |
24 | Rodney Toogood , chairman , said the matter was not material to the business . |
25 | KPMG are not auditors to Target . |
26 | The pair are not first-timers to the MPA competition , having won a first prize in the portrait section last year . |
27 | The Company is not party to any arrangement to enable any Director or his family to acquire benefit through the acquisition of any shares , debentures or loan stock of any other company . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | Possibly this shortfall was met by grain production on the Lasithi Plain , but if Lasithi was not tributary to Mallia , the city would have had to look overseas for grain , ‘ buy ’ it from neighbouring territories , or go hungry . |
30 | Most , however , felt that such practices were not topics to be made available for public scrutiny . |