Example sentences of "is [art] substitute for [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Disclosure , all too often opaque , is no substitute for inclusion in the accounts .
2 In other words , money is no substitute for management .
3 Probyn himself says : ‘ I hold my own beliefs about front-row play and one of those is that there is no substitute for experience .
4 Time spent examining and handling fabric for yourself is time well spent as there is no substitute for experience .
5 They are showing there is no substitute for experience and the only disappointment for Tranmere at the moment is the crowd , or rather lack of it .
6 Agendas , minutes and related papers are available For inspection at the school , but this is no substitute for attendance at meetings if public information and debate is fully intended .
7 Love which makes the world go round is no substitute for gelatine when it comes to holding together a lasting peace , for love is the most abused four letter word in the language .
8 Whilst it is certainly true that behaviour is no substitute for knowledge , the way you behave is the biggest single factor in making an impact on the way other people respond to you .
9 There is no substitute for knowledge and above all the reception staff must have a complete knowledge of the product they are selling if they are going to sell effectively .
10 There is no substitute for practice and experience .
11 Skills depend for their application upon knowledge , and there is no substitute for practice in the development of a skill .
12 Clearly , there need to be realistic incentives to reward effort and performance ; payment in kind , by supplying goods and other services , is no substitute for cash .
13 Discuss the statement ‘ there is no substitute for product knowledge ’ , relating it to the receptionist as a salesperson .
14 " Where is no substitute for information and many problems can be solved just by making an effort to find the right information ( market research , production costs , financing availability ) .
15 There is no substitute for information .
16 The use of the latest tackle and ’ in bai ’ is no substitute for River Craft and Fish Location , an art that anglers often neglect .
17 Thorough understanding of the impact of visual presentations is not a normal part of training of teachers and other academics , and care is needed to ensure that the effect in the classroom is actually what was intended ; there is no substitute for classroom experiment in this area .
18 The occasional discussion period , in which pupils express their current level of thinking about God , is no substitute for study in depth of how religious people understand " God " , why they do , and whether they are justified in so doing .
19 There is no substitute for guidance and sharing ideas at meetings of parents , teachers , librarians , and the like .
20 With teaching , surely there is no substitute for personality .
21 Even granting that theory is involved in applying concepts like ‘ money supply ’ and ‘ inflation ’ , and that there is room for dispute about which is prior to which , there is no substitute for observation .
22 Societies in which people saw gold as precious would give gold as a gift to a loved person , and in our culture money is a substitute for gold , which is , in turn , a symbolic substitution for the first gift — faeces .
23 Food is a substitute for love — I feel safe with it .
24 Sometimes the deed is a substitute for thought , and so it is likely that there was a primal crime ; they did actually kill the father and devour him .
25 And the special language of the specialist is a substitute for thought .
26 If an indicator of social deprivation is a substitute for mortality , then this means discarding the best available direct proxy for morbidity , which is after all what much of the NHS seeks to respond to rather than some ill defined concept of social deprivation .
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