Example sentences of "[be] not a [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not a child to be frightened by a resolution of a board of directors , or to be soothed by the present of shares ( each carrying 10 liability ) in a company which has been losing money every year from its commencement , and which nothing short of a miracle could make pay a dividend as hitherto managed ; neither is my position in Scientific Circles here such as to render my retaining the editorship of any advantage to me — indeed , I am vain enough to think that I confer more than I receive . |
| 2 | Members must have been trading in the UK for at least two years and must disclose their turnover and profits — lack of profits are not a bar to membership however , he added , because ‘ we would hate to disallow the big international business machine companies ’ . |
| 3 | This is a very good program but , if you are not a novice to spreadsheets or computers , you will find it frustrating as it will be too slow for you . |
| 4 | The favoured solution is therefore to find ways of slowing cars to speeds at which the short sight-lines are not a danger to children . |
| 5 | People who have HIV or AIDS are not a danger to others and they do not need to tell people at school , at work or people that they meet every day . |
| 6 | Now villagers feel that AIDS sufferers should be treated with compassion , and that they are not a danger to others if it is known how to protect oneself from the disease . |
| 7 | We never attribute any goodwill to the minority interest ( since they are not a party to the transaction ) nor attempt to extrapolate the group 's goodwill to establish a theoretical goodwill attributable to the minority interest . |
| 8 | ‘ You 're not a person to me anymore . |
| 9 | Others thought the CDP ‘ should not back down from accreditation as this would seem to suggest that CDP were not a body to be taken seriously ’ . |
| 10 | Also , in several European countries legislation had been passed to ‘ extend ’ agreements to employers who were not a party to the negotiations ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 11 | Certainly individual ammonoid species became extremely widespread , and oceans were not a barrier to their distribution . |
| 12 | He claimed scientific evidence had shown low levels of salmonella in water were not a risk to health . |
| 13 | A spiritual director is not a problem-solver to whom we run for infallible answers . |
| 14 | Apparently , for the ‘ exclusively heterosexual ’ X , homosexuality is not a submitting to another man but a competition with , a displacing of , him . |
| 15 | They must be empowered to demand excellence in the courses that they attend and realise that their education is not a favour to them but a means of preparing them to be the sort of doctors that we want in the future . |
| 16 | A test ban is not a short-cut to a nuclear-free world . |
| 17 | This is not a decision to be entered into lightly . |
| 18 | there is no doubt that this is not a publication to be left around the bedroom floor gathering foot prints and Coca-Cola stains , but then similar neither is it to lie moribund on the coffee table or in the display cabinet . |
| 19 | Demerger is clearly the right road but it is not a freeway to success . |
| 20 | What these boardroom blouses and toerags at the turnstiles do not realise is that football management is not a skill to be acquired through hard work , but a gift from God . |
| 21 | All eyes of course will be on Cheltenham where John Taylor will be trying to prove that being black is not a bar to becoming a Conservative Member of Parliament . |
| 22 | Contrastingly , it is not a defence to a civil claim where legislative standards are regarded as minimum which should , in some circumstances , be exceeded by the reasonably prudent producer . |
| 23 | With some horses , animation that is not a response to anxiety or fear , becomes a thing of the past ; but with others , especially Arabians , cheerfulness and animation continue as a consistent part of their personality . |
| 24 | Goldring says : ‘ It is not a response to PMA and contains nothing about civil defence ’ . |
| 25 | FRESH evidence that there is not a link to toxic chemical sprays , such as Agent Orange , and increased birth defects in veterans ' children has been provided in a study by the Australian Commonwealth Institute of Health . |
| 26 | Individualism is not a creed to be adopted by women . |
| 27 | Woolton told the House of Lords on 30 April 1952 that ‘ the work of the co-ordinators is not a responsibility to Parliament ; it is a responsibility to the Cabinet ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ Death ’ , said my dad , ‘ is not a journey to some pleasant place . |
| 29 | For example , the question whether the common sense of advanced capitalist societies is qualitatively similar to the common sense of medieval society is not a question to be answered by the application of universal notions . |
| 30 | His efforts to recover them have been hampered by the fact that Britain is not a subscriber to the 1970 UNESCO convention for the return of cultural property to its country of origin . |