Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] [verb] [adv] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The police , still clustered by their vans , were not watching out for trouble . |
| 2 | Most significant of all there is an interruption in registration in 1206 when things were not progressing well for Innocent . |
| 3 | Although they were eventually eaten , the Hamwic sheep were not reared primarily for eating , and there are lower quantities of fowl and poultry than at early- and middle-Saxon farms . |
| 4 | So no voter who gave Craig a second preference could be sure that it would actually be registered , for his paper could be one of the 3,813 — 1,476 = 2,337 that were not picked out for transfer . |
| 5 | In one further case with concomitant gastric ulcer bleeding the specimen was not checked histologically for Dieulafoy 's disease . |
| 6 | She was not cut out for subterfuge . |
| 7 | His enthusiasm was not assumed entirely for Oliver 's benefit . |
| 8 | However , it was not sent out for review until mid-September , Jones receiving it on the 20th . |
| 9 | I was not crying out for pain pills or anything . |
| 10 | ‘ But by the sound of what she has just said her mother was n't cut out for work , not the kind you 'll find in this quarter , except her last job . |