Example sentences of "[is] [not/n't] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , for example , the local authority is unable to find a suitable placement for the child because of a shortage of foster parents the court may decide that a care order is not to the child 's benefit despite the shortcomings of his own parents . |
| 2 | The shock and trauma of an accident or a physical injury may also bring about immediate inability to think clearly — even when the injury is not to the head . |
| 3 | In both cases it can be argued that the succession is not to the treaty , but to the territory as defined . |
| 4 | Needless to say , this is not to the exclusion of men but in co-operation with them . |
| 5 | When Winston Smith and O'Brien pledge themselves to a revolution against dictatorship , the toast is not to the future but to the past which , as O'Brien puts it with mock gravity , is ‘ more important ’ . |
| 6 | The need to ensure that water use by by people is not to the disadvantage of the natural beauty of the countryside or animal habitats . |
| 7 | If that choice is not to the liking of those with voting power , many of whom will be ratepayers , they can make their views evident through the ballot box . |
| 8 | Prime ministerial power , and therefore prime ministerial government is challenged ; Cabinet government and collective responsibility are challenged because of the claim that the first allegiance of a Labour minister is not to the Cabinet but to the mandate given by the party conference ; parliamentary government and the autonomy of MPs to deliberate as representatives is challenged through the notion of mandate reducing them to delegates ; and liberal-democracy itself is challenged because of a refusal to accept limits to participation and to the role of the state in the struggle to attain socialism through democracy . |
| 9 | It seems a lot of money but it 's not to the man who 's prepared to pay it |
| 10 | Whether they go on late at night , or , hair cut the next morning , it 's not , it 's not to the wall , but er , this would appear to cut right across the board . |