Example sentences of "be not [noun sg] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not count for anything . |
| 2 | There is n't work for everybody , so people who work are mostly the lucky ones . |
| 3 | There is n't room for them in the Gaza Strip and West Bank . |
| 4 | But this book takes in many forest areas too and I suppose there is n't room for everything . |
| 5 | With regard to the national economy in such a state of affairs , the principal slogan was not concern for its lasting restoration … but the immediate securing of produce , even at the cost of undermining the productive forces . |
| 6 | There is a clear consensus that the case for the public ownership and management by State corporations of whole industries was limited ; and , further , that the objective was not nationalisation for its own sake , but the need to bring economic enterprise under social control — whatever that means . |
| 7 | No freehold property is mentioned in his will , but his goods , chattels and savings constituted quite a nice little nest-egg for his sons and his daughter — and was not ambition for one 's children one of the marks of a Victorian middle-class man ? |
| 8 | Helen said , ‘ It was n't time for him to be home yet . ’ |
| 9 | The remaining void shields were doing their best to bleed hostile energies away as heat , but there was n't time for it to radiate away . |
| 10 | There was n't room for her to stay in the flat with the three other girls so they decided that Katrine should stay in Piazza Pitti in Debbie 's flat . |
| 11 | Well perhaps there was n't room for her sit in the back ! |
| 12 | And that building there , the one with the green roof , that 's Ebenezer Chapel where we used to have lessons some mornings because there was n't room for us all in the school . |