Example sentences of "was [not/n't] a [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pointed arch was merely the most efficient form of building technology at the time ( in Stamford a pointed arch is sometimes used in medieval cellars to span the sites of earlier quarry pits ) and the undercroft at no. 13 St. Mary 's Hill was not a crypt for St. Mary 's Church , but a shop with steps giving access to the street . |
| 2 | No , preserving a small majority was not a triumph for Mr Major in the real world . |
| 3 | This was not a problem for HARPY since it represented and recognised complete utterances . |
| 4 | The Reverend George Whitefield was not a man for jokes . |
| 5 | Dave Speed : ‘ This was not a Budget for jobs ’ |
| 6 | The conventional view that this was not a subject for girls was challenged by Sophie Bryant 's success , notably in sending a succession of North Londoners to study mathematics at Girton . |
| 7 | Rejected by Tawney ( 1912 ) , this has now been fully vindicated by Dr Kerridge , who has shown that the security conferred on the copyholder by the law was not inferior to that enjoyed by the freeholder , and that it was not a subject for dispute in the courts during the sixteenth century ‘ for the simple reason that the question had been settled long before ’ . |
| 8 | The colleges have always taken the view that accreditation was not a prerequisite for appointment ; a recent survey revealed that approximately one third of physicians were not accredited at the time of their appointment . |
| 9 | So ‘ Safety First ’ was not a substitute for lack of ideas and policies : it was deliberately chosen by Baldwin from a number of possible election platforms . |
| 10 | This was not a time for tears . |
| 11 | It was not a time for students of the world to ponder the great matters of global history , to care about the great beyond , to notice the unleashing of distant energies . |
| 12 | He was right , of course , this was not a time for love . |
| 13 | Although representatives from the USA , the Cairns Group and the EC initially welcomed the Swedish proposal , talks finally broke down on Dec. 7 after MacSharry claimed that the compromise proposal " was not a basis for negotiation " . |
| 14 | Responding to the Handsworth events Douglas Hurd was moved to argue forcibly that such events were senseless and reflected more on those who participated in them than on the society in which they took place : ‘ The sound which law abiding people in Handsworth heard on Monday night , the echoes of which I picked up on Tuesday , was not a cry for help but a cry for loot ’ ( Financial Times , 13 September 1985 ) . |
| 15 | One interviewer asked me whether the riot was not a cry for help by the rioters . |
| 16 | The sound which law-abiding people heard at Handsworth was not a cry for help but a cry for loot . |
| 17 | It was not a through-road for Saxon or medieval traffic ; it did not come into existence as a boundary ; it was not originally a drove-road , for cattle-drovers took over existing tracks and lanes and did not create their own except in special circumstances . |
| 18 | For Engels , by contrast , the possibility revealed by the gentile constitution was a major guarantee that the Marxist vision of the withering away of the State in a future communist society was not a recipe for chaos , as was argued by his opponents . |
| 19 | But the arrangement was not a recipe for happiness . |
| 20 | The departure of Lord Leverhulme was not a victory for crofting but a defeat The crofters left the land not because Lord Leverhulme gave them jobs in a factory , but precisely because he did not . |
| 21 | But unfortunately that was not a conversation-stopper for Miles ; it was a cue . |
| 22 | Therefore , despite the fact that a little over a year had passed since the Report had been received , he suggested that the interval between publication and the debate was not a matter for regret . |
| 23 | ‘ In my work I am involved in life and death situations so , on the scale of things , I decided that losing an election was not a matter for heartbreak . ’ |
| 24 | The IOC Medical Commission was aware of this , and , for this reason , the presence of a Y chromosome was not a reason for exclusion ; a complete physical examination was done before any decision about eligibility . |
| 25 | Are you sure it was n't a surprise for Berenice ? ’ |
| 26 | Now the Supreme Court declared that decision that the constitution gives the power to regulate interstate commerce to the national government , I E it was n't a matter for New York , it was n't a question of whether New York or New Jersey should control it , it was a matter for the federal government not for either of the states . |
| 27 | ‘ He says it comes under the Fireworks and public Entertainments byelaw ; an' there was n't a soul for miles around . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Anyway it was n't a time for painting pictures , Little Father . ’ |