Example sentences of "not the [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given this , he is clearly not the servant to ‘ Peace and Humanity ’ that Leeds University has billed him , and there must surely be many people who deserve the honour more obviously . |
| 2 | All for now — it is chucking down hail , so I am afraid it is the post lift near here tomorrow Monday and not the trek to the main sorting office . |
| 3 | And that is why Peter 's office decided long ago that he was not the person to be first to hear news about the latest software products . |
| 4 | Is not the approach to lawmaking found in this Bill a topic fit for the Royal Commission 's attention ? |
| 5 | However , it will be noted that the above depends upon the propensity to save and not the propensity to unproductive consumption . |
| 6 | Not the arteries to your toenails or the tip of your nose , but the arteries to what we call the vital organs . |
| 7 | The degree of control of human populations required by the design , especially in the random allocation of subjects to experimental and to control groups , and subjecting one but not the other to the causal treatment in the field , is practically impossible . |
| 8 | I do n't intend to give the council a to solving the world 's problems and that 's not the word to mind but problems . |
| 9 | In the latter case , they do have a restrictive value but one which belongs to their rather complicated lexical property , not to their structural function , and the target of that restriction is not the subject to which that property is assigned . |
| 10 | While cutting rebates and slots , two problems occurred on the curved members , firstly the glazing rebate because of the weight and length of curved members and the limited table size of my router , I decided to take the router to the wood and not the wood to the router but then realised I would be machining away the surface I wanted to guide the router on i.e the inside face which is the true radius . |
| 11 | Whether or not the advantages to the business of imposing a change outweigh the disadvantages to the employee is one of the factors which should be taken into account . |
| 12 | ‘ 'T IS not the day to be thinking of the past , ’ he said . |
| 13 | But this is not the concourse to the train platforms . |
| 14 | This is not the way to the ladies room in the Kingshouse Hotel . |
| 15 | This is not the way to the ladies room in the Kingshouse Hotel either . |
| 16 | ‘ This is not the way to the Mercury Garden , ’ it announced . |
| 17 | ‘ This is not the way to Sleep of the Just , ’ it said . |
| 18 | There is more glamorous mountain scenery ahead , but this unfortunately is not the way to Zurich . |
| 19 | She 's not the type to be an unmarried mother . ’ |
| 20 | He had a sudden fear that this was not the Charleroi to Brussels road . |
| 21 | But it was not the damage to his hand or the rest of the obvious physical damage that made a tragedy for Tom . |
| 22 | This was not the climax to a corny B-film . |
| 23 | He 's just not the man to be chief of the Macleans . |
| 24 | He went to the US because ‘ Goldsmith decided that if you wanted to be a capitalist the UK and France were not the places to be ’ . |
| 25 | But that millions had not the courage to be good . ’ |
| 26 | More exercises and more repetitions are not the answer to correcting poor arm development — it is better to do fewer exercises and repetitions and to take more rest . |
| 27 | This is not the answer to which the study of the New Testament leads . |
| 28 | We know that cash is not the answer to everything , but it 's surprising how much comfort it could bring to your life and the lives of those around you . |
| 29 | It is not , any more than the swing- and quiver-tip are not the answer to everything . |
| 30 | However it is important to remember that recycling is not the answer to all our waste problems . |