Example sentences of "not a [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not a day for arguing about the size of tips . |
| 2 | ‘ This is not a day for cheering up on . |
| 3 | Islander did her best , but this was definitely not a day for beating the daily run record . |
| 4 | It 's not a day for viewing houses . |
| 5 | ‘ Again , not a decision for lowly commanders . |
| 6 | Rejected by Tawney ( 1912 ) , this has now been fully vindicated by Dr Kerridge , who has shown that the security conferred on the copyholder by the law was not inferior to that enjoyed by the freeholder , and that it was not a subject for dispute in the courts during the sixteenth century ‘ for the simple reason that the question had been settled long before ’ . |
| 7 | The conventional view that this was not a subject for girls was challenged by Sophie Bryant 's success , notably in sending a succession of North Londoners to study mathematics at Girton . |
| 8 | He had decided it was not a subject for honest men , and had gone on to history , where he had developed a real interest in local history and a talent for getting old working-class men and women talking about the customs and social conditions of their childhood . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Now once the benefits were approved er by the Trust Deed and er bearing in mind that the Chairman at that meeting informed the Trustee and I quote in determining the structure of the scheme the company was prepared to enter into consultation with the Trade Unions and Trustees , but this was a consultative process only and not a subject for negotiation ; and their company then went on to seek the er er the transfer of the present contributing members er er and a hundred of the members agreed er to transfer into that new scheme . |
| 11 | However , high population densities are certainly not a prerequisite for inequalities and a class structure to arise . |
| 12 | A previous knowledge of computing may be of some advantage initially but is not a prerequisite for entry to the course . |
| 13 | Although some prior knowledge of programming and/or statistics is an advantage , it is not a prerequisite for the course . |
| 14 | However , since this is not a prerequisite for acceptance on the Minor Project , some schools did not form one , and several of those which were formed appear to have lapsed following the completion of the school 's spending phase . |
| 15 | The colleges have always taken the view that accreditation was not a prerequisite for appointment ; a recent survey revealed that approximately one third of physicians were not accredited at the time of their appointment . |
| 16 | ( A knowledge of Gaelic is not a prerequisite for any level of study . ) |
| 17 | Sponsorship is not a prerequisite for any of our courses but we are happy for students to arrange sponsorship if they wish to do so . |
| 18 | These results suggest , however , that there may not be complete colonic metaplasia and that the mucin changes and other phenotypic alterations may represent a non-specific response to pouch inflammation and not a prerequisite for the development of pouchitis . |
| 19 | Therefore acid inhibition is not a prerequisite for the hyperplasia . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It would appear therefore that the element of profit is not a prerequisite for the finding of a business activity under this legislation . |
| 22 | And it 's not a night for trouble . ’ |
| 23 | His appearance and demeanour were fairly average and he was not a head-turner for female fans . |
| 24 | She struggled with the cold fear that had laid its hand on her : she had gone with a man , without protesting , without a single pledge from him , and not a word of kindness , not a promise for tomorrow ; she looked at Sabina 's back in front of her , the pinafore tied behind over her gathered skirt , and imagined her husband 's hands around that still sturdy small of her back , and wondered had she let him do that , do what Tommaso had done , before they were married ? |
| 25 | It 's not a vocation for him but he 's had a lot of work published including calendars and photographs for the sleeves of telephone books . |
| 26 | It 's not a vocation for him but he 's had a lot of work published including calendars and photographs for the sleeves of the telephone books . |
| 27 | This is not a proof for the existence of God . |
| 28 | He declared that ‘ our only wish is that Afghanistan should be a neutral and independent state developing in its own right and friendly to the USSR , and not a base for hostile activity threatening the security of neighbours ’ . |
| 29 | But that contrast in later writers is retrospective ; it is not a proposal for great houses in the future . |
| 30 | Y you 'll see amongst the plans that you 've , you 've got before you , plan number seven actually , should n't really be with these papers because it 's not a proposal for approval , but it does show the extent of the work that 's been done and the key element there is that there are these speed cushions I mentioned earlier on as a possible way forward there , which has been in consultation . |