Example sentences of "is not for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With respect er I was n't paying too much attention to er to what was being said in as much as this possibly sounds negative but our concern is not for what people are shouting at us our concern is for whether we 've got a threat er in a particular area , in this case the bedroom , and whether we can try and sort that threat out before somebody is injured . |
| 2 | This book is not for them . |
| 3 | But that is not for them to decide ’ ( I , 60 ) . |
| 4 | By this stage a few will have decided that this is not for them . |
| 5 | If you talk to women in the sort of project where she 's working , I think you do get a very strong picture of people who have very little confidence in themselves and certainly think that education is not for them , and if you then look at projects like second chance for women , there 's a range of access projects , particularly for for people who want to get back into education when they think that they 've had precious little chance to get anything out of education when they were at school themselves . |
| 6 | But capital punishment is not for me in that category : it is not self-evidently harmful , not self-evidently unjust . |
| 7 | But it is not for me to moralize . |
| 8 | Thus , it is not for me to sit in judgement upon Daniel Miller . |
| 9 | Asked about the ‘ race question ’ , Mr Taylor said : ‘ It is not for me to start making allegations . ’ |
| 10 | SIR — Perhaps it is not for me , as a priest of the Russian Orthodox Church , to comment on ‘ the precise purpose ’ of Cardinal Hume 's visit to Moscow ( report , April 16 ) . |
| 11 | Of course , it is not for me to suggest that I am worthy of ever being placed alongside the likes of the ‘ great ’ butlers of our generation , such as Mr Marshall or Mr Lane — though it should be said there are those who , perhaps out of misguided generosity , tend to do just this . |
| 12 | ‘ It is not for me , ’ he said , ‘ to believe in anything . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ It is not for me , ’ he repeated , ‘ to believe in anything . |
| 14 | It is not for me or for you to believe in anything . |
| 15 | Backpacking is not for me . |
| 16 | Her own refrain went : This is not for me . |
| 17 | It is not for me to say whether the judges or the Lord Chief Justice should or will consent . |
| 18 | that their all goody goody and then later on you think , this is not for me |
| 19 | Whether Skelton needs to expand at the present moment is not for me to say . |
| 20 | You may tell me that your personal life is not my concern and that it is not for me to comment — and you would be justified however , I can not help but make it my concern because I have your future very much at heart . |
| 21 | PAMELA : Pray , your honour , let me go down for it is not for me to hold an argument with your honour . |
| 22 | But she is not for me nor I for her . |
| 23 | Yet before them … perhaps it was pure cowardice , it is not for me to say . |
| 24 | It is not for me here to try to account for the common features of movements so different in nature as those we have mentioned . |
| 25 | It is not for me to say . ’ |
| 26 | However , it is not for me or you to presume upon the gentleman 's intentions . |
| 27 | It is not for me to refer that matter to the Select Committee . |
| 28 | That is for local authorities to decide , and it is not for me to offer them advice . |
| 29 | It is not for me to offer helpful advice to the right hon. Gentleman , but I shall do so : when in a hole , one should stop digging . |
| 30 | It is not for me to help Scottish Tories in those circumstances , but I suggest to them that it may have something to do with the way in which the Government treat Scotland in legislative terms . |