Example sentences of "not a place for " in BNC.

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1 ‘ IT really is a friendly and fun restaurant ; not a place for a tête à tête .
2 It remains true that Switzerland is not a place for ‘ convenience ’ skiing in the way that France is .
3 It was not a place for reasoned argument and Alec Davidson did not press his point further .
4 It is not a place for the faint hearted or those who swoon easily : such are advised to remain in the safety of the car .
5 Alum Pot is palpably not a place for novices to explore , and for the uninitiated most interest will be found in the north corner of the same field .
6 Like many I would draw the line if it were a water closet frequented by the public , but prison is not a place for such offenders .
7 During this operation , the market was not a place for the general public .
8 He said : ‘ Everything is very cheap but it is not a place for the vegetarian , the food consists mainly of red meat and cabbage . ’
9 The assumption that politics is not a place for women persists and must itself reduce the number of women putting themselves forward .
10 Next week it will launch the Novell Network Registry — not a place for networks to take solemn vows but a user service designed to eliminate conflicts between names and addresses on NetWare internetworks .
11 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 .
12 The fact that a very similar kind of furniture can be bought in an enormous variety of different places , there 's not this same idea that ‘ Oh , I would n't ever go in that sort of shop to buy it because it 's not a place for my sort of person ’ .
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