Example sentences of "be [not/n't] [art] [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 | ‘ Paul , I do n't know if you have realised this yet , but I am not the understudy to the part of the father . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | More exercises and more repetitions are not the answer to correcting poor arm development — it is better to do fewer exercises and repetitions and to take more rest . |
| 10 | It is not , any more than the swing- and quiver-tip are not the answer to everything . |
| 11 | And three physicists writing in Nature show that monopoles are not the answer to a long-standing problem of solar physics — that of the ‘ missing ’ solar neutrinos . |
| 12 | The speed humps are not the solution to the problem of speeding . |
| 13 | ‘ You 're not a person to me anymore . |
| 14 | ‘ Of course I was terrified when it happened , ’ she recalls , ‘ but I 'm not the sort to be beaten . |
| 15 | erm but I 'm not the sort to sort of push meself forward in front of other people |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | Certainly individual ammonoid species became extremely widespread , and oceans were not a barrier to their distribution . |
| 19 | He claimed scientific evidence had shown low levels of salmonella in water were not a risk to health . |
| 20 | He reminded himself again that he was dealing with premeditated murder and the Glynns were not the sort to resort deliberately to force except in dire circumstances . |
| 21 | A spiritual director is not a problem-solver to whom we run for infallible answers . |
| 22 | Apparently , for the ‘ exclusively heterosexual ’ X , homosexuality is not a submitting to another man but a competition with , a displacing of , him . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | A test ban is not a short-cut to a nuclear-free world . |
| 25 | This is not a decision to be entered into lightly . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Demerger is clearly the right road but it is not a freeway to success . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |