Example sentences of "be not an [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not an advantage to a woman , and fatal to society , if women are allowed to take too important a role . |
| 2 | It is not an exception to the rule gives details of alibi witnesses . |
| 3 | In the same way , any dog who will not accept dominance in his new pack is not an asset to anyone . |
| 4 | Spiritual direction is not an invitation to prolonged introspection , even though personal reflection will be necessary . |
| 5 | So my answer to the question A is , I am not against a new settlement , of the right scale in the right location , but it is not a panacea , it is not an answer to all the questions , now it 's being offered in terms of a balanced strategy , I say that balanced strategy as put forward does not work , certainly beyond two thousand and six , and may grind to a halt well before two thousand and six if rates of development proceed er as they have done in certain years in the past , so it 's very important to look at that , can we just revisit the public acceptance of the new settlement , of course the public have accepted it and welcomed it , it has certain attractions , I support those attractions , however it 's easy for the public to accept that when measured against certain sites specific proposals that were put to them when they did not know where the new settlement would be , and still do not know , when new settlement locations are put forward it will be quite a different scenario . |
| 6 | The patient 's death is not an evil to be avoided at all costs , but is an inevitable consequence of his condition . |
| 7 | ‘ The winter with its snow and ice , is not an evil to be corrected . |
| 8 | It is not an analogy to be pushed too far , but the point should be clear by now . |
| 9 | The information in this leaflet is not an alternative to specific legal advice on your circumstances . |
| 10 | My hon. Friend is right to say that the local income tax is not an alternative to council tax which commends itself to Conservative Members — or even to most Opposition Members , and he is right to say that anybody interested in knowing why local income tax will not work could do no better than to read the report of our proceedings in Committee . |
| 11 | It is the trap into which Italy has fallen and it is not an example to be copied . |
| 12 | It is the trap into which Italy has fallen and it is not an example to be copied . |
| 13 | If the existing distribution is unsatisfactory that is not an objection to corporate enterprise but results from the failure to rectify distributive injustice . |
| 14 | But this is not an attempt to be controversial for the sake of it . |
| 15 | She was neither loitering nor soliciting said the prosecution and it 's not an offence to be a prostitute . |
| 16 | I 'll admit I 'd like to have your confidence in this but it is n't an obstacle to our friendship . |
| 17 | There is n't an alternative to the supervisors . |
| 18 | It was not an alternative to cultural transmission , but in addition to it . |
| 19 | Its success depended upon a major economic reform and was not an alternative to one . |
| 20 | During his speech at the inauguration ceremony , Sharon said that Jewish settlement was not an obstacle to peace , but was instead an obstacle to war . |
| 21 | ‘ One faces a decision , I guess at such times , about how far to go with company instructions , and since the spirit of such meetings only appeared to be correcting a horrible price level situation , that there was not an attempt to actually damage customers , charge excessive prices , there was no personal gain in it for me , the company did not seem actually to be defrauding , corporate statements can evidence the fact that there have been poor profits during all these years … |
| 22 | The three parties fought the elections for the Constitutional Convention as a coalition with a joint manifesto which-emphasised that Northern Ireland should remain indefinitely as an integral part of the United Kingdom and that power would not be shared with Republicans although that was not an objection to Catholics as such . |
| 23 | Well , that raises the old question — or might raise it , if there was not an answer to it-of Lampleigh v. Brathwait ( above , p. 200 ) , a subject of great interest to every scientific lawyer , as to whether a past service will support a promise . |
| 24 | Er and I suppose the great you know lesson of social sciences in , in some ways if it 's , if it 's for anything it ought to be to try and avoid that kind of disaster , because erm if we understood ourselves better we might you know in the future try and avoid that thing because we just would n't attempt if , if that was n't an attempt to be . |