Example sentences of "[coord] it [is] not for " in BNC.
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1 | So , wrote Harsnet , there is continuity as well as discontinuity , but that does not mean , he wrote , that there exists what is called character , personality , character , Goldberg wrote in the margin , personality , as they seem to think , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg went on typing ) , when they say you have such a generous character if you would only recognize it , or you have so much to offer , or it is not for myself I speak but for you , not for myself I mourn but for the waste of all that generosity , when they pour those words over you , character , generosity , warmth , looking sad , shedding tears , putting on a brave face , saying do n't pay any attention to me , or , it 's nothing , forget it , I 'm crying for the waste , meaning waste if it 's not directed towards them , but you have only to see what happens when one lets oneself be persuaded by that sort of thing , wrote Harsnet , you have only to see what happened to Hutchinson , MacMahon , Rollins and Goldberg . |
2 | ‘ It 's his club , he has his opinion , and it 's not for me to be drawn into a public dialogue with him . |
3 | " I was followed today — and it 's not for the first time , either . " |
4 | I regret that there is n't a man here who would uphold the opposite point of view and it 's not for want of trying . |
5 | It is the law which prevails over every other form of law , and it is not for the court to say that a parliamentary enactment , the highest law in this country , is illegal . |
6 | That is for local authorities to decide , and it is not for me to offer them advice . |
7 | But it is not for me to moralize . |
8 | I would not exclude a consideration of the greenbelt functions served by the area , but it is not for us to question the correctness of the approval by the Secretary of State for the Environment of the general extent of the greenbelt for York . |
9 | ‘ Being a local government lawyer can be an extremely exciting and rewarding career but it is not for people who want a quiet easy life . |
10 | It is for the European institutions to define those ’ floor-level ’ rights , but it is not for Brussels to say how they will be observed . |
11 | Anyway , it sounds like something to make long pisses much more interesting , but it is not for me , thanks to cruel fate . |
12 | But it 's not for everybody , that 's for sure . |
13 | But it 's not for football that they fear — it is for the danger of crowd violence . |
14 | I had a few putts with it at home , but it 's not for me , Chris . |
15 | But it 's not for me … star signs and Mr Wyatt I can do without . ’ |
16 | I did this but it 's not for a few weeks time for my presentation on Freud , or |
17 | At the end of two days you say well fine but it 's not for me I ca n't do anything about that when you walk out the room but I hope my objective is to convince you that here is something that like lots of other people in time I can it 's a very very useful system . |
18 | Earlier this evening Graham I thought you erm made a complaint about the number of reports that are coming to committee er but it 's not for that reason that I wanted to dispose of this motion now erm but there are other reasons . |
19 | But it 's not for sale at any price — it 's more than a hundred years old , and was snapped up for a thousand pounds at auction . |
20 | It seems a pity but it 's not for very long . |
21 | Yes , but it 's not for every day . |
22 | Yeah but not but it 's not for school it 's for some people outside school , it 's a sort of |