Example sentences of "but [pers pn] be no [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not wishing to be a pansy , I stepped up my pace too , but I was no match for the male legs I was pursuing since both of my spindly little limbs could fit into the right leg of his breeches . |
| 2 | Exercises in a room were all very well , but they were no substitute for running every day . |
| 3 | Second-to-bottom Westhoughton were better than their position suggests , but they were no match for a hungry outfit , who sealed the win thanks to further strikes by Graham Dodd and a Mark Wilson penalty . |
| 4 | He may be faster than a speeding bullet but he 's no match for a giant alien called Doomsday . |
| 5 | He looked upon himself as absolutely bound to obey the papal decree ; but he was no crusader for the principle which it enshrined . |
| 6 | Mr Iqbal , 37 , was a black belt judo expert but he was no match for Vernage 's knife . |
| 7 | Oh , he was charming and debonair — but he was no match for Damian Flint . |
| 8 | Tariq Ali contributes a feature to the paper , in which he asks ‘ could it happen here ? ’ and concludes ‘ the situation is not the same … but it is no time for complacency in Britain . ’ |
| 9 | But it is no substitute for social justice . |
| 10 | Transend Professional is a solid comms program but it 's no match for the latest Window-based fax software |
| 11 | I doubted that , but it was no time for me to talk out of turn . |
| 12 | I cried — a bit of an exaggeration , but it was no moment for exactitudes , ‘ And now I 've got only one kidney . |
| 13 | A frank talk was a help , but it was no substitute for knowing what it was like to have to milk cows at the crack of dawn every morning or mend fences , or battle with the elements , and so he began a series of annual stays on Duchy farms . |