Example sentences of "were not [noun] to [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't mean — I think — that Richard and I were not kind to her , only that she did not ‘ come first ’ with either of us , and she was a woman who needed to be made much of and fussed over . |
| 2 | Marian already felt her captors were not strangers to her . |
| 3 | In fact , the 1907 Hague Conventions were not formally applicable to that conflict , because several of the belligerents were not party to them , and under the so-called ‘ general participation clause ’ the Hague Conventions could not therefore apply even between those who were parties . |
| 4 | The incomer might not agree to any existing house rules or feel that they can ignore them because they were not party to them initially . |
| 5 | But the appeal of the romantic movement does not explain why those who were not party to it , such as Michael Faraday , who was a visionary and wrote beautifully , have been completely written out of conventional histories of 19th century Britain , as if he ( and David Brewster and Thomas Henry Huxley and the rest ) were just peripheral figures , keeping things ticking along so that statesmen could make grand decisions and the widening of human understanding could be left to poets . |
| 6 | ‘ That , too , Father , I confess , though we were not party to it . |