Example sentences of "not [be] the [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed to be mulling things over because he must have seen that this had not been the shock to Maggie that it had to him . |
| 2 | After issue they can be traded ( they are thus ‘ securities ’ ) and so the holder at the time of redemption need not be the person to whom the bill was originally issued . |
| 3 | Walking out on your partner may not be the answer to midlife change and you may not want a divorce , but you are likely to find that you need to update your relationship if the marriage is to be sound and mutually satisfying for another twenty or thirty years . |
| 4 | PLANTATIONS of trees in the tropics may not be the answer to global warming , Friends of the Earth have warned . |
| 5 | What she was not was the answer to a policeman 's prayer . |
| 6 | And at the last three meetings the bookmakers have operated in a confined square which certainly has n't been the answer to congestion problems . |