Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [not/n't] [noun sg] to " in BNC.

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1 A Pakistan Foreign Office spokesman said on July 6 , however , that Pakistan was not party to any attempt to evade export controls .
2 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 .
3 The Thatcher years were not kind to Lord Weinstock , GEC 's legendary managing director .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 Rodney Toogood , chairman , said the matter was not material to the business .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 From the early summer of 1916 , the growth point of pacifist protest was not resistance to conscription , but the demand for a negotiated peace .
12 The weather was not kind to the competitors in 1987 , being very wet and stormy .
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