Example sentences of "[not/n't] to [be] a [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was … contended that … if the person had become philosophically or psychologically or socially female , that person should be held not to be a man for the purposes of ( section 30 , inter alia ) . |
| 2 | An Interim report ( Cmd. 6759 , March 1946 ) emphasized that a New Towns programme should be a matter for central Government : the location of a New Town should be a Government decision and that a new agency should be set up to plan and develop the town ( it was not to be a matter for local authorities ) . |
| 3 | In addition , for a short time bus route 64 was extended from West Croydon to the Robin Hood and to Elmers End Garage , but there proved not to be a demand for this service and it was soon cut back again . |
| 4 | The position of a shareholder in a brewer 's business was discussed in Braithwaite 's Trs. v. Linlithgow Justices ( Scotsman , January 27 , 1909 ) , and he was held not to be a partner for the purposes of a similar provision . |
| 5 | Hart in his book Law , Liberty and Morality ( 1963 ) argued that the law was not and ought not to be a tool for ‘ the enforcement of morals ’ , in particular in the field of sexual morals , where the activities condemned may ‘ involve nothing that would ordinarily be thought of as harm to other persons ’ . |
| 6 | A lady who lived in family with her father , whose housekeeper she was , in the house which he owned and occupied , was held not to be an occupier for the purposes of the corresponding provision of the 1959 Act , s.36 , and to have no title to object to an application . |