Example sentences of "but it [be] [not/n't] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is not for me to moralize . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Anyway , it sounds like something to make long pisses much more interesting , but it is not for me , thanks to cruel fate . |
| 6 | Editorial decisions are backed by extensive market research , and manuscripts selected and edited according to ‘ whether the story lives up to the high standards that Mills and Boon readers have set for us … we ca n't please every one of our readers all the time , but it is n't for want of trying ! ’ |
| 7 | But it 's not for everybody , that 's for sure . |
| 8 | But it 's not for football that they fear — it is for the danger of crowd violence . |
| 9 | I had a few putts with it at home , but it 's not for me , Chris . |
| 10 | But it 's not for me … star signs and Mr Wyatt I can do without . ’ |
| 11 | I did this but it 's not for a few weeks time for my presentation on Freud , or |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It seems a pity but it 's not for very long . |
| 16 | Yes , but it 's not for every day . |
| 17 | Yeah but not but it 's not for school it 's for some people outside school , it 's a sort of |
| 18 | Footnote : The Greatest Living Irishman never got to pat the knee of the Greatest Living Human Being , but it was n't for lack of trying . |
| 19 | It was comforting and easy , but it was n't for him . |
| 20 | It 's a domestic policy , hands off right and this was one of the arguments one of those potent arguments that they 've used in the last forty years right but it 's incredibly naive because any domestic policy will have an international dimension I remember the about European Community right but it was n't for the operation of the common agricultural policy countries in the European Community would be net importers of agricultural goods as we were ten years ago bec because er of protectionism we 've now increased our self sufficiency to the point where were a net exporter of agricultural goods what implications has th does that have for international trade ? |
| 21 | But it was n't for real … the students of the Oxford University Union were getting their new season under way . |
| 22 | So they kept on going for goals ; did n't get any , but it was n't for the lack of trying ; Southend 0 ; Oxford 3 . |
| 23 | He could n't catch the winner , Carlos Saintz , but it was n't for the lack of trying . |
| 24 | he 's a little , aye I know but he 's , yeah I know but it was n't for a week was it ? |
| 25 | He did not succeed but it was not for lack of trying . |
| 26 | But it was not for want of feeling or … principles . ’ |
| 27 | But it was not for her ; |
| 28 | One horse had detached itself and ambled towards the line of protesters but it was not for a moment that Meredith realised , with a pang of dismay , that it was Blazer carrying Harriet . |
| 29 | The only thing he and Rangers lacked was a goal , but it was not for the want of trying . |
| 30 | She had tried to enter the world of light , but it was not for her . |