Example sentences of "not [noun] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The weather was not kind to the competitors in 1987 , being very wet and stormy . |
| 2 | The balance-of-payments deficit is not as bad as it looks , partly because it stems from private sector choices rather than public sector profligacy , and is thus inherently less inflationary as individuals can not resort to the printing press to ease the burden of their debt ; and partly because much of it may be imaginary , since the figures omit the ‘ balancing item ’ of unrecorded net receipts from overseas assets . |
| 3 | The pair are not first-timers to the MPA competition , having won a first prize in the portrait section last year . |
| 4 | Secondly , it was emphasised that ex hypothesi the responsible third parties — and in particular the solicitors in this case — were not parties to the transaction and received nothing under it . |
| 5 | Diplock LJ said " A contract in restraint of trade is one in which a party ( the covenantor ) agrees with any other party ( the covenantee ) to restrict his liberty in the future to carry on trade with other persons not parties to the contract in such manner as he chooses " . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | The basis of these decisions was that strikes would result in unlawful ‘ secondary ’ action involving employers who were not parties to the dispute . |
| 9 | They do not become parties to the treaty but to the Protocol , while the treaty parties are not parties to the Protocol . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Family life needs a bit of tolerance on both sides — not recourse to the law . |
| 12 | In these circumstances the courts will find that the plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence but not volens to the risk ( Owens v Brimmell [ 1977 ] QB 859 ) . |
| 13 | Thus the signing of a Heads of Agreement relating to the interconnector , which occurred before the licence came into force , was not subject to the condition but any decision relating to the interconnector taken after March 31 , 1992 , is . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Other nations , which are not signatories to the treaty , are understood to be developing nuclear weapons . |
| 16 | ‘ If , in any case not expressly provided for by this Act , a liability to any duty , or any authority or power , not incident to the administration of justice in any court , whose jurisdiction is transferred by this Act to the High Court of Justice , shall have been imposed or conferred by any statute , law , or custom upon the judges or any judge of any of such courts , save as hereinafter mentioned , every judge of the said High Court shall be capable of performing and exercising , and shall be liable to perform and empowered to exercise every such duty , authority , and power , in the same manner as if this Act had not passed , and as if he had been duly appointed the successor of a judge liable to such duty , or possessing such authority or power , before the passing of this Act . … |
| 17 | Since it is a jurisdiction which is central to the administration of justice in the courts of this country , it was accordingly not ‘ a liability to any duty , or any authority or power , not incident to the administration of justice in any court , ’ which was preserved under the new arrangements in 1873 by section 12 of the Act of 1873 without forming part of the new jurisdiction of the High Court . |
| 18 | We find the reference in section 12 to duties , etc. , ‘ not incident to the administration of justice in any court ’ particularly compelling as a pointer to the conclusion that the disciplinary jurisdiction of the visitors was transferred to the High Court pursuant to section 16 . |
| 19 | We are very willing to accept that those parts of the judges ' visitorial jurisdiction which were not incident to the administration of justice in the courts passed down through the routes suggested by Sir William and Professor Baker , but in the context of the present case , where the court has for the first time to inquire into the particular function which is being performed , we are not satisfied that the whole of the visitorial jurisdiction passed by this route . |
| 20 | McAllister made up her mind ; if Eddie could not cycle to the Buildings then why should not she ? |
| 21 | On the sale , the purchaser should not assume any such liabilities as they are not liabilities to the employees . |
| 22 | When a problem is based on a rule — e.g. the rule in Derry v. Peek or Rylands v. Fletcher — it is usually advisable to state the whole rule in a sentence or two , even though some parts of the rule are not material to the problem . |
| 23 | The portfolio also contains a number of low equity interests that are peripheral to LASMO 's main areas of activity and which are not material to the fortunes of the enlarged Group . |
| 24 | Rodney Toogood , chairman , said the matter was not material to the business . |
| 25 | Alford distinguishes the lay popular interest in development of services as the third and largely repressed force : it is not organized as a permanent lobby and is not party to the agenda setting between the monopolists and the rationalizers . |
| 26 | ( See also Norwich City Council v Harvey [ 1989 ] 1 All ER 1180 where a similar clause was held to prevent the imposition of a tortious duty of care on a sub-contractor who was not party to the contract . ) |
| 27 | Such indemnities , transferring liabilities incurred to third parties , will be particularly useful in cases where a contracting party may incur liability to a person not party to the contract , which therefore can not be excluded by contract : for instance , a manufacturer might require a distributor or retailer to indemnify it against tortious product liability claims by consumers injured by the product . |
| 28 | Just how that 's going to be accomplished we do n't know , we 're not party to the discussions , we understand that the Greater York authorities do plan to meet shortly after the end of this examination , but just what further work is necessary before they then get onto the location aspects we do n't know about that , all I would say is that we would expect final plan to have the general location of a new settlement embodied in in that plan before it is approved . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Interestingly , Egypt described the Memorandum as changing the United States ' role from one of ‘ partner ’ ( but not party to the Peace Treaty ) to one of ‘ arbiter ’ which it considered inappropriate . |