Example sentences of "never be [art] [noun] for " in BNC.

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1 I 've never been a person for holidays but when I was sixteen I left drama college , with my grant , and tried hitching to Cairo ; that 's my idea of travelling .
2 I 've never been a person for holidays but when I was sixteen I left drama college , with my grant , and tried hitching to Cairo ; that 's my idea of travelling .
3 Do n't forget , there is not a rabbit warren in the land where they show sex education films and yet this has never been a problem for the rabbits of the world .
4 Until recently this has never been a problem for Fred and Beth .
5 Celibacy has never been a problem for me . ’
6 TELEVISION has never been a time-filler for me .
7 Where he had been standing had been a turning point for cars once upon a time — when there were still cars in the world — but this had never been a place for modern things .
8 Maybe , in time , realism may prevail , but I see young players with stars in their eyes , and realism has never been a match for that in any walk of life .
9 Liking , let alone loving , had never been a requisite for the majority of men whose capacity for making love was triggered more by the physical attributes of a woman than the quality of her personality or character !
10 She loved him deeply , but their relationship had generally been tacit ; there had never been a need for definition , explanations , analyses .
11 But ref Snoddy , with vast experience of World Cup and European football , insisted : ‘ It has never been the custom for referees to be paid their expenses in cash — or for clubs to hand over the money . ’
12 Does this mean there can never be a land for the Palestinians , and that Jews and Arabs may not live together in peace ?
13 DES Circular 11/87 , referred to above , said that there would never be a case for a teacher advocating homosexual behaviour to pupils .
14 Is there a chance if it changes so rapidly , that there could never be a vaccine for the whole strain , for the whole H I V virus .
15 In the present situation , the ASEA could never be a remedy for the ‘ general wastefulness of industry ‘ ; instead , its proper role was in helping employers to get the right kind of boy , and boys to find the right kind of employer and to ensure that training was effective , both in terms of the workshop and of continued education .
16 Sixty years after Schoenberg was making those remarks and nearly twenty years since Karajan made his recording of the Op. 31 Variations , it is still possible to meet the argument that the gramophone can never be a substitute for the sound of ‘ the real thing ’ in the concert-hall .
17 Hundreds of these survive ; and though they can never be a substitute for the originals , and raise very difficult problems of reliability , the best are beautiful and many are of real value to the art historian .
18 It avoids complacency and abuse of subsidy , but it will never be a substitute for properly funded arts .
19 ‘ I do n't know , ’ Sapt said , ‘ but if he does n't get to his coronation today , there 'll never be a coronation for him .
20 She 'll never be a match for those two old women .
21 A terrestrial plant will always be stunted in growth and assimilation and can never be a match for a true aquatic plant .
22 The promotors say their video is a work of art that should n't be judged on how much trade it generates , but some argue unless Oxford breaks away from it 's traditional image the tourists fantasy will never be a heaven for those who live and work there .
23 There can never be an excuse for what happened to James Bulger , but we should all hope that some day there will be a better understanding of why it happened .
24 Moira Charles could never be the girl for me .
25 Delay due merely to the complexity of the case or contributed to by the actions of the defendant himself should never be the foundation for a stay .
26 Delay due merely to the complexity of the case or contributed to by the actions of the defendant himself should never be the foundation for a stay .
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