Example sentences of "[coord] not a [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He declared that ‘ our only wish is that Afghanistan should be a neutral and independent state developing in its own right and friendly to the USSR , and not a base for hostile activity threatening the security of neighbours ’ . |
| 2 | It was revealed on Aug. 5 that the special prosecutor in the Iran-contra affair , Lawrence E. Walsh , had informed Ronald Reagan that his office considered the former President " simply as a witness " in the investigation and not a candidate for indictment . |
| 3 | These results suggest , however , that there may not be complete colonic metaplasia and that the mucin changes and other phenotypic alterations may represent a non-specific response to pouch inflammation and not a prerequisite for the development of pouchitis . |
| 4 | Now once the benefits were approved er by the Trust Deed and er bearing in mind that the Chairman at that meeting informed the Trustee and I quote in determining the structure of the scheme the company was prepared to enter into consultation with the Trade Unions and Trustees , but this was a consultative process only and not a subject for negotiation ; and their company then went on to seek the er er the transfer of the present contributing members er er and a hundred of the members agreed er to transfer into that new scheme . |
| 5 | However a war like the one going on in Northern Ireland at the present is different because religion is being used as an excuse to fight and so it is being used as a negative force and not a force for the good . |
| 6 | Again it is this incomprehension of social mobility which seems to have caused my ACC to describe an officer who took a degree and then left to become a solicitor as ‘ a bad experience for the force ’ ( and not a gain for society ) . |
| 7 | that the riots were ‘ a lust for blood ’ , an ‘ orgy of thieving ’ , ‘ a cry for loot and not a cry for help ’ ; |
| 8 | It probably only includes counterparties and not a client for whom the firm acts in a transaction with another firm ( eg , an IMRO member who is a client of an SFA broker ) . |
| 9 | OK so the occasional ( ! ) taunt may be made at a footy game but it IS a football match after all and not a place for the fainthearted . |
| 10 | Yet , while he considers his relationships to be ‘ personal ’ and not a matter for newspaper talk , he played the public role of superstud for years . |
| 11 | These men , either forgetting or not realising that work is but a component of life and not a reason for it , are likely to have spent too much time working , to the exclusion of family and leisure activities . |
| 12 | That it is in the interest of the Workers ' Educational Association that the organisation of its activities and its expansion , and the direction of its policy , should continue in the hands of its members ; that the work of the professional officers in the field should be supplementary to that of the Branch and Federation members and not a substitute for it , and that all constitutional impediments to the holding of any Branch or Federation office by voluntary members of the WEA should be removed . |
| 13 | Two of the women who founded the centre in 1980 , the charismatic Mrs Penny Brohn , a cancer sufferer herself who has spurned the path of orthodox medicine , and Mrs Pat Pilkington , and Dr Alec Forbes , the centre 's medical adviser , made it quite clear in the first of the series of six , that the centre 's work was to be seen as supplementary to orthodox treatment and not a substitute for it . |
| 14 | Of course , such a leaflet should be a supplement to , and not a substitute for , a one-to-one preparatory discussion between patient and doctor , and may be inappropriate for less straightforward procedures . |
| 15 | This is quite normal , and not a cause for concern , unless the shrinking and polyp retraction is prolonged , in which case something is amiss with the water quality . |
| 16 | The idea of a broad free trade area was , on the whole , acceptable to the Six , but only if it was supplementary to , and not a replacement for , the EEC . |
| 17 | As in so many computer applications , particularly in the personnel field , it is necessary to make it clear that the technology is an aid to managerial judgement and not a replacement for it . |
| 18 | FMLN health workers and doctors insist that any health system which does not take as its starting point the ideological world of the patient would in fact be ‘ unscientific ’ since it would be , at worst , simply a system for diagnosing diseases , or , at best , a system of treating diseases but not a system for treating people . |
| 19 | We crossed several large meadows before working along steep , loose flanks , rich with flowers but not a route for mules , wherever they were — they had taken a different line . |
| 20 | Despite these neuroses he was also possessed of an aggressive resolve for social success coupled with an interest in ( but not a taste for ) the psychologically abnormal . |