Example sentences of "be not [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gymnemins from Gymnema sylvestre ( Asclepiadaceae ) remove the sense of sweetness in some mammalian tongues , but are not deterrent to caterpillars and have less effect on dogs or rabbits than they do on apes . |
| 2 | ‘ You are not kind to your little seester ! ’ |
| 3 | When sold later in life , they are not subject to tax again but a dealer is subject to paying 15/115ths of his profit . |
| 4 | In general , although offer letters are not legally binding , the buyer 's solicitors will insist that at least those clauses discussed below are not subject to contract , but are legally binding obligations on the parties . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But the angels of hell are not party to the councils of heaven . |
| 8 | This was not possible as BBA has some 325 member banks in all and most of these are not party to the agreement . |
| 9 | However , such an agreement should not prejudice other Network members who are not party to the ad hoc arrangement . |
| 10 | Note that the contract can not bind those who are not party to it . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But that 's something we 're not party to . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | You 're not tape to taping are you ? |
| 15 | It is extremely positive it sta , it clears these points up and and answers most of these questions so I would urge Mr Chairman that to on sheer education , on terms of provision of services , I 'm not party to all of the politics , I agree with what you said , absolutely crazy . |
| 16 | I do n't know I 'm not use to going in the meadows . |
| 17 | I 'm not time to wasting my time . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The Thatcher years were not kind to Lord Weinstock , GEC 's legendary managing director . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 24 | It is difficult to believe that the historians were not party to such constructions , although Goody might justifiably envisage that such honourable men as Thucydides would have been shocked if his material had been manipulated in this way by the politicians . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The House of Lords held that since the ship owners were not party to any contract with the tug owners ( the arrangements had been made by the charterers of the ship ) the secondary action was , again , illegal . |
| 27 | Having said that , the hon. and learned Member for Burton makes a good point : it would offend against the views of ordinary persons and would be a crying sense of injustice if people who were not party to the aggravated crime and who had sought to distance themselves from it were found guilty because the balance of probabilities had fallen on them to prove their innocence . |
| 28 | ‘ That , too , Father , I confess , though we were not party to it . |
| 29 | Double-check you have got everything the right way round so that the artwork is not back to front , then close up the UV light box and switch on . |
| 30 | The result is not death to the unsuccessful competitor but few or no offspring . ’ |