Example sentences of "not [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have not calls for action by organisations such as the Society for Black Lawyers been met by Government intransigence ? |
| 2 | They are not times for conflict and confrontation but opportunities for co-operation and celebration . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's not crap for actors ! ’ they cried . |
| 4 | The football authorities come to Molyneux to support their claims that grounds are now fit for families , not homes for hooligans . |
| 5 | ‘ It is not sport for sport 's sake , ’ says Mr Hawkins , who is an ex-Harlem-Globetrotter , ‘ but a way of imposing a structure on undisciplined lives : in a sports team they turn up regularly , on time , in uniform , and train hard . |
| 6 | There 's not statistic for Luxembourg . |
| 7 | Whatever , whatever they are , no , you 've got tabs there , but I 'm saying do n't use those up yet , they 're not tabs for stuff that 's going to be behind , they 're actually for pages and so on . |
| 8 | For Tip it was probably because he very nearly did not caddie for Arnold Palmer at all . |
| 9 | she did n't say well er my husband brought me here because it was a decision that she had parted , it was a choice she had made as well and so she , she excepts her responsibility , she excepts her blame and she goes to return so there was , there was this sense of confession and , and confession can be costly when we 've got to admit that I was wrong , I did wrong , I was mistaken , I went the wrong way that could be a costly mistake and , and , and er costly experience for us to go through , but surely the , the true sign of repent is that we do acknowledge our sin , we acknowledge our failure , that we acknowledge what it means to god , we ca n't shift that blame onto somebody else then also consider not just the cost that Naomi had to pay in going back , but also there was a cost for Auper and for Ruth as well as Moabias there would be little joy for them in Israel , they were foreigners , they were strangers , there would n't be much hope for happiness for them , there would be very little likeliness for them ever getting married in or remarrying er in , in Israel , they would n't be able to worship there own god , they 'd be taken from one culture to another , there 'd be taken from one language to another , what was it gon na be like for them , alright , perhaps whilst they were living with Naomi perhaps she could pull a few strings for them , but what happens when she goes and they are left by themselves and yet it would appear that with Naomi making her decision to return that they too these two daughters in law they decided to go to Bethlehem with her and it tells us that they set out together but perhaps they had n't thought it really through because their not totally committed to us and as they come towards the frontier and their gon na pass into in , back into Judah with their few miserable possessions that they 've gathered together , Naomi again considers the consequences facing these two young women , Auper and Ruth , they continued with her , as she pleads with them to go back home , Judah is no place for a foreigner , Judah is no place for somebody to come unless they are part of gods people , and I 'm reminded of again of what it tells me in , in the book of acts , that in the early church , that people were actually frightened , frightened to join with the disciples , they were frightened to join the church , there was no room for , for stragglers , there was no room for hangers on , there was no room for those who went just because they thought it was gon na be the next , the in thing to do , but folk were actually frightened of joining because they knew they had to put their lives right , they knew they had to live holy lives , they knew that god had to be lord and master in their lives and unless they were willing to do that and be committed to him they were actually frightened of joining and one of the great weaknesses of the church today is that it becomes and it can becoming our thinking and nothing more than just something we join , something we belong to , something we go along to er as like a club , like an association , but that 's not the picture we see it in the New Testament , it is a very exclusive body , it is a very exclusive grouping , a grouping of those who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ and that 's why not every body is a member of the local church , not every body who goes to church on a Sunday is a member of a church to Jesus Christ now they know if they are , but other people may not know , they know and the lord knows , I know if I belong to him and he knows if I belong to him other people may not , I can put on the act , I can look as though I 'm playing the part , I can go through the routine , I can , I can , I can fool every body , but he knows and I know , and he knows and you know and so Jesus said not every body who says lord , lord on that day will I acknowledge and recognize and so for Ruth and Nao er yes Ruth and Auper it was gon na be different of course for them as foreigners in Judah especially when Naomi goes and she pleads with them go back home , Judah is not place for Moabias , she knew what it had been like to be a foreigner , she knew what it had been like to be an alien land in an alien culture in a different religion with a different language she had known the bitterness of it all , she pleads with them go back home she prayers for them the lord bless you , the lord you know be gracious to you and so on , but they refused and again Naomi puts it to them , to please go back and Auper reconsiders and she takes the counsel and advice of her mother in law but no so Ruth and Naomi turns and says look your sister in law 's gone back , she 's gone home , you go as well , you ca n't do it , its a too greater price for you to pay , its a choice you must n't make , a decision you must n't make , your gon na have poverty , your gon na have loneliness , your gon na have hardship . |
| 10 | These are not tensors for example is the cosine of the angle between the 1 " -axis and the 2-axis . |
| 11 | Such charges are totally outside the scope of VAT altogether because they are not charges for goods or services . |
| 12 | No doubt there were communications between different groups , but the only ones preserved , those of John Ball ( even if authentic ) , were cryptic allegorical utterances , not commands for action ( 11 , pp.381–3 ; 78 , p.214 ) . |
| 13 | Time was made for man , not man for time . |
| 14 | Not word for word , now |
| 15 | But again , there is the other side to Beccaria 's version of the social contract mentioned in Chapter 1 — that we would not will for others what we would not will for ourselves — and Hart 's view that Beccaria 's position was sensitive to individual rights . |
| 16 | Because the assay requires 32 P-labelling of proteins by PKA and has to be performed on heat denatured nuclear extracts , it is not necessarily quantitative ( because it will be affected by the degree to which the protein is already phosphorylated ) and will fail to detect heat labile proteins or proteins that are not substrates for PKA . |
| 17 | Government recognition of some groups and not others for consultations , negotiations and arbitration , distinguishes corporatism from pluralism ( Harrison 1980 , pp. 73–4 ) . |
| 18 | They were not ones for put-ring their hand to the plough then looking back . |
| 19 | There was no red carpet for the new Lords of the Manor … but then again Denis Smith and his right hand man Malcolm Crosby are not ones for airs and graces … |
| 20 | To say that it 's not value for money , how can you . |
| 21 | This is not value for money , we 're working with very , very needy people in our community . |
| 22 | Not exactly side-splitting , but not grounds for assault either , one would think . |
| 23 | Thus , while the risks of ERCP are relatively fewer , this is not grounds for complacency . |
| 24 | Bearing in mind that the United States introduced trade sanctions last July , is it not time for Britain to impose a comprehensive trade embargo against Burma ? |
| 25 | It is not time for Labour . |
| 26 | But it was n't money for clothes that she wanted . |
| 27 | You are cautious/play it safe/hold back/do n't experiment for fear of making a mistake/failing/looking stupid . |
| 28 | It was n't squares for hopscotch . |
| 29 | " I do n't pretend that medical science has yet found a method of treating cholera that 's quite satisfactory , I do n't say there is n't room for improvement , ladies and gentlemen … but what I do say is that it 's the duty of a member of the medical profession to use the best available treatment known and accepted by his fellow physicians ! |
| 30 | ‘ United do n't build-up for games in the same way but perhaps they 'd want to try it . |