Example sentences of "[am/are] not [noun pl] to the " in BNC.

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1 The pair are not first-timers to the MPA competition , having won a first prize in the portrait section last year .
2 On the sale , the purchaser should not assume any such liabilities as they are not liabilities to the employees .
3 Other nations , which are not signatories to the treaty , are understood to be developing nuclear weapons .
4 They do not become parties to the treaty but to the Protocol , while the treaty parties are not parties to the Protocol .
5 ‘ Decisions that resolve disputes between the parties to them , whether by litigation or some other adversarial dispute-resolving process , often have consequences which affect persons who are not parties to the dispute ; but the legal concept of natural justice has never been extended to give such persons as well as the parties themselves rights to be heard by the decision-making tribunal before the decision is reached .
6 In Cheall v. Association of Professional Executive Clerical and Computer Staff [ 1983 ] 2 A.C. 180 , 190 , Lord Diplock said : ‘ Decisions that resolve disputes between the parties to them , whether by litigation or some other adversarial dispute-resolving process , often have consequences which affect persons who are not parties to the dispute ; but the legal concept of natural justice has never been extended to give such persons as well as the parties themselves rights to be heard by the decision-making tribunal before the decision is reached . ’
7 Note 62/3/2 in The Supreme Court Practice 1991 explains that rule 3(2) only applies to a right of a party to recover costs ‘ from any other party to the proceedings ’ and will not apply to the right of a mortgagee to retain costs out of a mortgaged property on redemption or to any other contractual right to costs out of a fund or from persons who are not parties to the proceedings .
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