Example sentences of "[noun prp] be not [noun] to " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A Pakistan Foreign Office spokesman said on July 6 , however , that Pakistan was not party to any attempt to evade export controls . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Ligurian Riviera was n't Italy to her ; she felt in exile once more ; the move had been a failure . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | KPMG are not auditors to Target . |
| 8 | 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 . |