Example sentences of "that [pers pn] be no [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , he was on a job , and secondly , he knew without putting into words that she was no girlfriend for an ambitious copper . |
| 2 | Yet , once again , the feeling that she was no match for the forces conspiring , as she felt , against her , was overwhelming . |
| 3 | The butler seized the glass where upon the fairies tried to regain the cup but realising that they were no match for this mortal they finally abandoned the struggle and vanished , leaving the butler with the glass cup and according to a ballad by the German poet Uhland with this warning . |
| 4 | Seb protested that it was no work for a girl , realising that the horses might panic when they saw the manor burning , but Carrie said , ‘ I know the stalls even better than you . |
| 5 | ‘ I remember bursting into tears and blowing my nose and saturating my tiny handkerchief so that it was no use for the rest of the day , ’ writes P. Atkinson , of The Green , West Cornforth , who was revising for mock O-levels at Stand Grammar School for Girls , in Manchester . |
| 6 | I felt that it was no time for living dangerously . |
| 7 | This is what Gustave told me : that it was no sadness for him to get rid of the paperweight , because he had another which did the work just as efficiently . |
| 8 | And had he thus revealed that he was no match for the being called Pool ? |