Example sentences of "is not to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The dissent in Bolduc & Bird repays study : if consent is to a doctor and student it is not to a doctor and friend .
2 I am not able , as others may be , to find an aesthetic pleasure in admiring the pattern as it unfolded ; for the spectacle is not to an Englishman a reassuring one .
3 If , for example , the local authority is unable to find a suitable placement for the child because of a shortage of foster parents the court may decide that a care order is not to the child 's benefit despite the shortcomings of his own parents .
4 The shock and trauma of an accident or a physical injury may also bring about immediate inability to think clearly — even when the injury is not to the head .
5 In both cases it can be argued that the succession is not to the treaty , but to the territory as defined .
6 Needless to say , this is not to the exclusion of men but in co-operation with them .
7 When Winston Smith and O'Brien pledge themselves to a revolution against dictatorship , the toast is not to the future but to the past which , as O'Brien puts it with mock gravity , is ‘ more important ’ .
8 The need to ensure that water use by by people is not to the disadvantage of the natural beauty of the countryside or animal habitats .
9 If that choice is not to the liking of those with voting power , many of whom will be ratepayers , they can make their views evident through the ballot box .
10 Prime ministerial power , and therefore prime ministerial government is challenged ; Cabinet government and collective responsibility are challenged because of the claim that the first allegiance of a Labour minister is not to the Cabinet but to the mandate given by the party conference ; parliamentary government and the autonomy of MPs to deliberate as representatives is challenged through the notion of mandate reducing them to delegates ; and liberal-democracy itself is challenged because of a refusal to accept limits to participation and to the role of the state in the struggle to attain socialism through democracy .
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