Example sentences of "be not a [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quickie learning sessions before Mass are not a success for most people since we have all developed a very skilful last minute arrival ! |
| 2 | If you are not a qualifier for the additional £50,000 do n't worry , this does not affect your eligibility to enter the ‘ Ultimate ’ Prize Draw and win the £50,000 first prize or one of over a thousand other prizes . |
| 3 | If you are not a qualifier for the additional £50,000 , do n't worry , this does not affect your eligibility to enter the Ultimate Prize Draw and win the £50,000 first prize or one of over a thousand other prizes . |
| 4 | Then , driven from that , Mr. Daniel said , ‘ Oh ! but it is past services that it means , and past services are not a consideration for anything . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ But arrears and repossessions are not a problem for us . |
| 6 | High rates of weathering are not a prerequisite for the formation of deep weathering profiles if the rate of removal of weathered material is sufficiently slow . |
| 7 | My own view is that these exceptions are so infrequent that they are not a reason for abandoning the neo-Darwinist mechanism as the one which underlies the vast majority of adaptive evolutionary changes . |
| 8 | But the failings are not a reason for abandoning a system which is based upon very reasonable principles , although not always working in practice . |
| 9 | Both rulers and ruled may believe that some issues are not a matter for public concern . |
| 10 | However , communication links between the trainee and the trainer via a computer are not a substitute for the two-way conversation and observation which normally takes place in a class-room . |
| 11 | Algicides are sold by many aquatic plant nurseries and garden centres and while these are effective for a short period of time , they are not a substitute for a properly balanced pool . |
| 12 | It should be said that many of the problems which make quality control of elements of the course above subject level a challenge for modular courses are not a challenge for conventional courses only because insufficient comparability exists to make quality control a serious possibility . |
| 13 | I want you to know you 're not a fantasy for me . |
| 14 | I can see to all the nitty-gritty for you — I know you 're not a family for bothering your heads with that sort of thing , you 've got better things to do . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm not a man for fancy living and fancy women . |
| 16 | I 'm not a guy for hanging around . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm not a pathfinder for any particular final result , and certainly the President of the United States has not sent me here . |
| 18 | For both spot and futures returns , there was no significant autocorrelation , suggesting that stale prices were not a problem for the index . |
| 19 | Appearing before the Knesset foreign affairs and defence committee on March 18 Shamir said that the Golan Heights were not a subject for territorial negotiation . |
| 20 | The years 1945–5 I were not a period for new ideas , but for remedial action . |
| 21 | After a while we realised that the girders were not a skeleton for something fancier but the thing itself . |
| 22 | The Court of Appeal held that residential occupiers were not a class for the purpose of the offence of harassment created by the Rent Act 1956 ( McCall v Abelesz [ 1976 ] QB 585 ) . |
| 23 | On the other hand it is a mistake to think of the Zuwaya as differentiated by class : differences in wealth were not a basis for any marked or self-conscious social discrimination . |
| 24 | When the Allied Socialists met later in February 1918 MacDonald 's fears were fully realized — the keynote speeches insisted that the War Aims were not a basis for negotiation with German socialists : the latter would have to accept them wholesale before any ‘ Stockholm'-style conference of all belligerent socialist parties could be considered . |
| 25 | This is not a plea for historical recorders to get their act together and check facts first-hand — I think the forces of establishment and vested interest are too strong for that to work , and anyway it would n't solve all the problems . |
| 26 | This is not a plea for a ‘ flat earth ’ policy , with no income differences at all . |
| 27 | This is not a proof for the existence of God . |
| 28 | This is not a requirement for all courses — please see individual course descriptions . |
| 29 | Designing with tradition is not a pretence for re-creating the old . |
| 30 | Whim confirmed that tetra is not a feedstock for ICI 's CFC alternative compounds , even though such captive use would be permissible under the protocol . |