Example sentences of "not [prep] [art] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Believing revanche to be either unrealizable , or not worth the price to be paid , it looked to colonies , social progress and economic expansion for French achievement . |
| 2 | The economic gain from foreign contracts is not worth the risk to national property . |
| 3 | It is an exploration of [ a ] vocabulary … which has been inherited within precise social and historical conditions and which has to be made at once conscious and critical — subject to change as well as continuity — if the millions of people in whom it is active are to see it as active : not as a tradition to be learned , nor a consensus to be accepted ; … but as a vocabulary to use , to find our ways in , to change as we find it necessary to change it , as we go on making our own language and history . |
| 4 | The Jews of his day had come to see the Old Testament law not as a pointer to the life of trusting obedience in God which it was meant to be but rather a code to be scrupulously followed in every detail . |
| 5 | For them stations would act principally as a means of access to the labour market in mines , farms , and towns , not as a route to the world market for their produce . |
| 6 | It serves , not as a monument to itself but as an aid to collegial communication . |
| 7 | This power , however , was to be used according to the rules of the American Constitution , not as a means to a dictatorship like that which Hitler was setting up at the very same time in Germany . |
| 8 | By contrast , the Co-operative Wholesale Agency , proposed in a report to a Co-operative Conference held in June 1851 in Manchester , was to pay one half of the net profits not as a bonus to its employees but as dividends to co-operative retail stores on their purchases from the Agency . |
| 9 | Our suggestions are simply intended as memory joggers — and emphatically not as a guide to what should , or should not , constitute a luxury . |
| 10 | The thing to remember about proof-reading is that a proof-reader 's corrections are intended as advice to the printer , not as a punishment to the writer . |
| 11 | Structuralism is revolutionary because it can be adopted only as an alternative and not as an addition to traditional academic habits . |
| 12 | Thus a gold or purple-leaved shrub is best used not as an alternative to green foliage , but as a specimen highlight whose beauty depends on the contrast with its green neighbours . |
| 13 | In this context ‘ easing ’ has to be seen as a means to accomplishing routine community police work , not as an alternative to it . |
| 14 | The tremendous sense of liberation is in seeing this not as an obstacle to faith , a rock of doubt which blocks progress , but as a part of the essence of life itself . |
| 15 | Suppose you present a surface dyslexic with the stimulus frays and ask , not for the word to be read aloud , but for the patient to say what the word means . |
| 16 | If you caused a flood by knocking a nail through a water pipe , the flood section would cover you for damage caused by the water , but not for the damage to the pipe . |
| 17 | If you can not resolve the matter amicably , I suggest you contact the local council — not with a view to making a direct complaint , but just to establish what the regulations are concerning open fires . |
| 18 | Not with a view to conciliating those readers who on principle object to sequels , but as a matter of fact , the Author wishes to say that he does not so regard this book . |
| 19 | The prohibitions in the CSA 1985 are rendered ineffective where the defendant can show that , notwithstanding the fact that he fulfilled all the conditions mentioned in ss.1 and 2 CSA 1985 , the dominant purpose of his trade was not with a view to making a profit or avoiding a loss for either himself or another person . |
| 20 | Its liberal recommendations reflected de Gaulle 's own view that France had to satisfy African demands for development , not with a view to eventual decolonization , but on the contrary in order to tie the empire more securely to France in the postwar era . |
| 21 | The general relieving provision in s740 , where transfers took place , etc not with a view to avoiding tax or which were carried out for bona fide commercial reasons , applies to ss739 and 740 . |
| 22 | Elvis 's huge ballad repertoire needs little commentary here , save to stress that it began not with the move to RCA but at Sun , ‘ Love Me Tender ’ ( 1956 ) and ‘ That 's When Your Heartaches Begin' ( 1957 ) being preceded by equally sentimental ballads cut for Sam Phillips ; indeed , it began earlier — when , as a boy , Elvis was entered for a talent contest at the Mississippi-Alabama Fair , it was the sentimental country and western number ‘ Old Shep ’ that he sang . |
| 23 | I know I 'm not in a position to be choosy , but I ca n't cope with the idea of living there — it 's just beyond |
| 24 | If you are not in a position to be ruthless about getting rid of people on the platform , school them in the proper way to behave — sitting still , looking towards the speaker and not thumping the table in their enthusiasm . |
| 25 | I 'm not criticising guitar players — after all , I 'm one myself and not in a position to be judgmental . |
| 26 | I think it would have been perhaps better if you , somehow er , maybe er I du n no , you could erm , nothing to do with you so you ri you 're not in a position to be able to move them erm but if it was possible to put them in a , a different situation I think would have made a more interesting picture . |
| 27 | That may change and as we move out of the recession hopefully , er the er erm position will improve , but it does mean that for next year we are not in a position to er achieve the level of income that the , the current year 's budget er required us to and which er on a normal knock-on basis as this element of the budget moves on from year to year , we would n't er have very much hope I would er put to you of actually meeting the level of income that would allow us to operate er a standstill budget in , in this area . |
| 28 | Well at the moment Mr is not in a position to how shall I put it , withdraw his authority 's commitment or preferred option , they have they have made that decision and short of him convening a memb a meeting of the highways committee between now and whenever , you wo there 's no way in which he would be in a position to withdraw that . |
| 29 | Action : Specified module is not in the structure to be updated — remove it from the steering file |
| 30 | For Moore , on the occasion of his 105th appearance in England colours , it became a miserable exposure to the inevitability of decline , an uncharacteristic positional error enabling Lubanski to surge through for the second of Poland 's two goals ; the famed captain would play only three more times for his country , and not in the climax to the qualifying group , five months later at Wembley . |