Example sentences of "not [noun sg] to [art] [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 | Family life needs a bit of tolerance on both sides — not recourse to the law . |
4 | However , according to Reid ( 1990 ) 91 Cr App R 213 ( CA ) the accused is , it seems , guilty of reckless manslaughter if he does not advert to a risk which ought to have been taken seriously and someone dies . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | ‘ 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 . … |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | McAllister made up her mind ; if Eddie could not cycle to the Buildings then why should not she ? |
11 | The Vendor can not be expected to anticipate what is and what is not material to a Purchaser . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | Rodney Toogood , chairman , said the matter was not material to the business . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | ( 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 . ) |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | But the angels of hell are not party to the councils of heaven . |
22 | That was , Lord Jauncey said , a clear undertaking by TBL not to exercise its statutory powers for a period that could last for as long as any one of the parties to the agreement remained a shareholder and long after the control of TBL had passed to shareholders who were not party to the agreement . |
23 | This was not possible as BBA has some 325 member banks in all and most of these are not party to the agreement . |
24 | Inn many cases this is what they get , However this is not consolation to the user who , having been misinformed by an out of date roadside timetable , spends , say , fifteen minutes at a windswept bus stop , in pouring rain , awaiting a bus that is less than clean , being driven so badly that the ride is uncomfortable by a brusque and unhelpful driver . ’ |