Example sentences of "not be a [noun sg] to " in BNC.

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1 In a speech on Nov. 7 President Ben Ali said that there was no place in Tunisia for a religious political party , because " Islam is the religion of all and can not become an object of competition or sensationalism and can not be a springboard to coming to power " .
2 One wonders , indeed , if the raucous atmosphere of other grounds would not be a relief to Thomond Park kickers .
3 This was also in the field of contempt of court and the rule which had been evolved was that Form N78 ( Notice to show cause why there should not be a committal to prison ) had to be signed by ‘ the proper officer ’ of the county court and that unless this was done , it was an invalid notice .
4 It should not be a shock to others either , for this is an action replay of Gower versus Stewart , the clash of cavalier and roundhead , flair and commitment .
5 The resolution , which had been given provisional approval on Tuesday night , declared the Congress 's support for fundamental economic reform and pledged there would not be a return to the Communist administrative-command system .
6 The development of the law of peace along these lines would not be a return to the acceptance of the legality of armed conflict as an instrument of national policy , but it would involve the articulation of a theory of the just war , however dangerous this may seem .
7 It is surely reasonable that taxes should be designed to be easy and cheap to collect , difficult to avoid and should not be a discouragement to the enterprise and effort of those paying them .
8 If possible , any reference to subtenants , licensees and casual callers ( eg customers ) should be deleted and there should most certainly not be a reference to the avoidance of the policy by acts or omission of other tenants in a multi-occupied building or shopping centre .
9 That might not be a problem to arable farmers or larger livestock men , but it will rule out the small livestock farm .
10 I 'm optimistic that in the long run her heart will not be a problem to her .
11 The use of Creole need not be a response to a prior use of Creole .
12 His inexperience over hurdles should not be a bar to victory here .
13 That is why the issue of pay for office became " a political symbol " — a symbol of the determination of the democrats that poverty should not be a bar to political participation , as Pericles and Euripides boasted it was not .
14 Survival figures indicate that age alone should not be a bar to specialist referral or treatment .
15 So that poverty should not be a bar to membership , the original subscriptions of 2s 6d p.a. " for gentlemen and honorary members and 1s for ladies " was reduced to a minimum of 1s in 1913 .
16 I would therefore argue that one of the chief tasks of education , perhaps its overriding task , is the education and encouragement of a child 's imagination , so that he may not be a slave to a perception confined solely to the present , a perception that is little more than blindness .
17 However , a mere counterparty surely should not be a customer to whom a firm owes customer obligations such as best execution or disclosure of material interests .
18 That this was a problem of significance is suggested by the request of bishop Dalmatius of Rodez , that his successor should not be a stranger to the diocese .
19 Bans on parades are always seen as a sign of weakness , and as such have frequently given militant Protestants a chance to show , by defying the bans , that they will not be a party to any ‘ sell-out ’ .
20 We shall not be a party to that : If Fascism was , as the Communists insisted , simply capitalism with its back to the wall , then it was realistic to see in Chamberlain 's rearmament programme not the promise of defence against German Fascism , but stage one in the construction of British Fascism .
21 The novelist must not be a party to the bad habits of the reader .
22 The chief constable can not be a party to the appeal , unless he formerly objected to the original application ( Hutcheon , cit . ) .
23 While , therefore , the performance may not be a detriment to the promisee , it is certainly a benefit to the promisor .
24 According to Levi these " understandings " included the following : ( i ) Israel would not be obliged to accept the principle of " land for peace " ; ( ii ) the conference would have no power to make decisions and would not be used as a forum for appeal or discussion ; ( iii ) negotiations would be direct and without preconditions and would be aimed at a peace treaty ; ( iv ) the PLO would not be a partner to the process and the Palestinians would be represented by a joint delegation with Jordan ; ( v ) the UN observer at the conference would be silent and would be a personal representative of the UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar ; ( vi ) a representative of the European Communities ( EC ) would attend the opening session of the conference ; ( vii ) the USA would not allow a parallel conference to take place in the UN Security Council ; and ( viii ) the Soviet Union would renew full diplomatic ties with Israel before the start of a conference .
25 Do not be a disappointment to me , Huy . ’
26 Two members of the Warnock Committee dissented from the majority to the extent of permitting surrogacy as a treatment for childlessness under the general supervision of a licensing authority ; and they also suggested that payment to a surrogate mother should not be a barrier to the child being adopted by the commissioning couple .
27 If you are agreeable to the suggestion , the financial arrangements need not be a barrier to you .
28 Entry should not be a reaction to short-term problems , but a considered response to long-term needs .
29 These objections imply that technology can not be a guide to other aspects of society , or in other words that there is no inevitable association between technology and other aspects of society .
30 However , it must remain a background thought in our minds and not be an obstacle to our concentration on the melodic creation .
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