Example sentences of "[is] not [art] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A spiritual director is not a problem-solver to whom we run for infallible answers . |
| 2 | Apparently , for the ‘ exclusively heterosexual ’ X , homosexuality is not a submitting to another man but a competition with , a displacing of , him . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A test ban is not a short-cut to a nuclear-free world . |
| 5 | This is not a decision to be entered into lightly . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Demerger is clearly the right road but it is not a freeway to success . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Goldring says : ‘ It is not a response to PMA and contains nothing about civil defence ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Individualism is not a creed to be adopted by women . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ Death ’ , said my dad , ‘ is not a journey to some pleasant place . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This is not to suggest , however , that deconstruction in any sense brings another knowledge to bear : rather it involves a critique of Western knowledge that works by exploiting the ambivalent resources of Western writing , as if Marxism were to produce a critique of ideology without the advantage of its science ( which , given the current ambiguous status of Marxist science is not a possibility to be dismissed lightly ) . |
| 20 | 9.14 Compensation on vacating Any statutory right of the Tenant to claim compensation from the Landlord on vacating the Premises shall be excluded to the extent that the law allows Basically , the landlord can deny the tenant statutory compensation ( currently the rateable value of the premises ) if there has been a change of ownership during the last five years of the term prior to its expiration and the assignee is not a successor to the business of the assignor . |
| 21 | This beeline may be reversed and used as a route of ascent from Horton but until a clear path has been formed by foot-traffic over the rough higher ground , it is not a way to be preferred to other more pleasant routes of ascent : apart from an exciting interlude midway , the climb becomes tedious . |
| 22 | Tamburlaine is not a man to be dealt with lightly , because if he says something , he means it . |
| 23 | Accepting help thus does not entail an accumulation of debt nor does it imply subordination , and is not a route to subjugation . |
| 24 | The eradication of hunger is not a threat to the well-being of people in the industrialised countries because there is more than enough food for everyone . |
| 25 | Of course drugs is , is one of the wonderful examples that the very thing that Katherine was talking about , something that was n't there in the beginning and that has been produced by modern technology and is now a big problem , but is not a problem to Australian Aborigines because they do n't have any drugs er to speak of , of course now they do and alcohol is a terrible problem with Australian Aborigines I talked to David McKnight about it . |
| 26 | Under section 23 , however , it is possible for someone who is not a trader to be convicted . |
| 27 | This is not a reference to problems such as the environment , about which there is a consensus . |
| 28 | As with males , this is not a reference to the side-effects of hot-blooded Latin lovers , but means any object that is found in the body but is not of the body . |
| 29 | This is not a reference to any pet the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger may have had but rather to a ‘ thought experiment ’ he proposed ( a thought experiment is one that can not actually be performed , but the examination of which can reveal scientific truths — or , at least , plausibilities ) . |
| 30 | The James Brothers ( Pembrokeshire Aviation Group , 36pp , illus , sbk , £4.00 inc p&p ) by Paul Williams is not a reference to the infamous Jesse and Frank James of cowboy legend , but tells the story of Howard and Hebbie James from Pembroke , two of Wales ’ aviation pioneers . |