Example sentences of "not a [noun sg] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To be sure , there were promises in a very general sense that ‘ My Spirit abides with you : fear not ’ ( Hag. 2:5 ) , but this was an assurance to the people as a whole , not a promise to the individual . |
| 2 | As with males , this is not a reference to the side-effects of hot-blooded Latin lovers , but means any object that is found in the body but is not of the body . |
| 3 | The James Brothers ( Pembrokeshire Aviation Group , 36pp , illus , sbk , £4.00 inc p&p ) by Paul Williams is not a reference to the infamous Jesse and Frank James of cowboy legend , but tells the story of Howard and Hebbie James from Pembroke , two of Wales ’ aviation pioneers . |
| 4 | Evans concluded that in some developing countries , the foreign multinationals might be a help and not a hindrance to the state . |
| 5 | 9.14 Compensation on vacating Any statutory right of the Tenant to claim compensation from the Landlord on vacating the Premises shall be excluded to the extent that the law allows Basically , the landlord can deny the tenant statutory compensation ( currently the rateable value of the premises ) if there has been a change of ownership during the last five years of the term prior to its expiration and the assignee is not a successor to the business of the assignor . |
| 6 | ‘ A man would have to supply some sort of evidence that he was not a slave to the State , a spy of the KGB . |
| 7 | Samuel Richardson , though not a subscriber to the first volume , had taken an interest in Leapor , who was in his eyes perhaps a more tragic Pamela . |
| 8 | His efforts to recover them have been hampered by the fact that Britain is not a subscriber to the 1970 UNESCO convention for the return of cultural property to its country of origin . |
| 9 | The court concluded that this was not a publication to the ‘ public ’ generally , or to a section of the public , even taking into account the fact that the M.P . |
| 10 | It was argued that the sentencer has failed to give weight to the effect on the appellant 's wife and child if he were deported , and that his good behaviour while on bail indicated that he was not a threat to the country if he remained . |
| 11 | This was not a threat to the capitalist class , however , because the leaders of the trade unions and workers parties were normally incorporated into the political system and educated to the imperatives and requirements of capitalism . |
| 12 | The eradication of hunger is not a threat to the well-being of people in the industrialised countries because there is more than enough food for everyone . |
| 13 | Too many people have forgotten that a bid , even one opposed by directors , is simply an offer to buy shares , not a struggle to the death . |
| 14 | There was some truth in the Don Quixote jibe , but de Gaulle was no Rip Van Winkle : his multipolar system was not a return to the past but an updated , global version of the nineteenth-century European system . |
| 15 | But this was not a reversion to the pattern and processes of concentration typical of the 1950s . |
| 16 | If we had not a right to the kingdom , we were mere mercenary soldiers . |
| 17 | His Lordship accepted Mr Bayliss 's submission that Order 5 , rule 5 did not give power to make an order for contribution in favour of a representative defendant against a member of the class which he was named as representing ; and that the only power it gave was that of giving leave to a person , in whose favour a judgment or order had been given or made , to enforce the judgment or order against a person not a party to the proceedings who was bound by the judgment or order . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Just as we give more weight to the views of an impartial judge , one who is not a party to the dispute in question , than to a partial one , so we give more weight to an impartial moral opinion , one expressed by a person who is not directly involved in the situation being assessed , than To an interested party . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | Sources say there were only really four companies behind COSE : Unix System Laboratories Inc , Hewlett-Packard Co , IBM Corp and Sun Microsystems Inc : beyond that , says the source , Santa Cruz Operation Inc had to fight to get in and the Open Software Foundation was not a party to the negotiations ; but the real power behind the throne , although it does n't want it to appear that way , was of course Novell Inc . |
| 22 | Notably , Novell was not a party to the call . |
| 23 | Beyond that , says the source , SCO had to fight to get in and the Open Software Foundation was not a party to the negotiations . |
| 24 | Suppose a State not a party to the Vienna Convention accepts orally an obligation under another treaty to which it is not a party . |
| 25 | There are a number of treaties of guarantee where the entity most directly affected was not a party to the treaty . |
| 26 | An example of such a provision is common Article 2 of the Geneva Red Cross Conventions , which provides that the parties shall be bound by the Conventions in relation to a party to the conflict which is not a party to the Conventions ‘ if the latter accepts and applies the provisions thereof ’ . |
| 27 | The first is the successor State , which by definition was not a party to the relevant treaty ; the second is the ‘ genuine ’ third party to a treaty concluded by the predecessor State . |
| 28 | First , the sending State 's liability arises from acts that may be committed in a country which is not a party to the European Convention on Human Rights . |
| 29 | A third organisation is defined in the Convention as an ‘ international organisation , not a party to the treaty . ’ |
| 30 | A dissenting member can not claim material breach of the constitutive treaty by the organisation , since the organisation is not a party to the treaty , although it can make such a claim against other member States . |