Example sentences of "not be a [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had not been a response to an immediate military threat , but rather to something fundamentalist and almost intuitive — a feeling that Britain must possess so climacteric a weapon in order to deter an atomically armed enemy , a feeling that Britain as a great power must acquire all major new weapons , a feeling that atomic weapons were a manifestation of the scientific and technological superiority on which Britain 's strength , so deficient in sheer numbers of men , must depend . |
| 2 | Soviet interest in foreign technology therefore has not been a response to detente , but to perceptions of internal need , and increases in trade flows have not always coincided with greater political relaxation . |
| 3 | France had not been a party to the negotiations , had not enjoyed the same privileged access to US nuclear technology , and possessed neither the submarines to launch Polaris nor the warheads to arm them . |
| 4 | 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 " . |
| 5 | One wonders , indeed , if the raucous atmosphere of other grounds would not be a relief to Thomond Park kickers . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | That might not be a problem to arable farmers or larger livestock men , but it will rule out the small livestock farm . |
| 13 | I 'm optimistic that in the long run her heart will not be a problem to her . |
| 14 | The use of Creole need not be a response to a prior use of Creole . |
| 15 | His inexperience over hurdles should not be a bar to victory here . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Survival figures indicate that age alone should not be a bar to specialist referral or treatment . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The novelist must not be a party to the bad habits of the reader . |
| 25 | The chief constable can not be a party to the appeal , unless he formerly objected to the original application ( Hutcheon , cit . ) . |
| 26 | While , therefore , the performance may not be a detriment to the promisee , it is certainly a benefit to the promisor . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Do not be a disappointment to me , Huy . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | If you are agreeable to the suggestion , the financial arrangements need not be a barrier to you . |