Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] was no [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her worst was when she got in the way ; backstage timing sometimes had to be precise , and it was no place for someone who was still taking in the sights . |
| 2 | Yet for many years most Europeans did not know the system existed and it was no substitute for full EMU . |
| 3 | Not wishing to be a pansy , I stepped up my pace too , but I was no match for the male legs I was pursuing since both of my spindly little limbs could fit into the right leg of his breeches . |
| 4 | He looked upon himself as absolutely bound to obey the papal decree ; but he was no crusader for the principle which it enshrined . |
| 5 | Mr Iqbal , 37 , was a black belt judo expert but he was no match for Vernage 's knife . |
| 6 | Oh , he was charming and debonair — but he was no match for Damian Flint . |
| 7 | I doubted that , but it was no time for me to talk out of turn . |
| 8 | I cried — a bit of an exaggeration , but it was no moment for exactitudes , ‘ And now I 've got only one kidney . |
| 9 | A frank talk was a help , but it was no substitute for knowing what it was like to have to milk cows at the crack of dawn every morning or mend fences , or battle with the elements , and so he began a series of annual stays on Duchy farms . |