Example sentences of "not the [noun] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1.8 The definition of " contributory negligence " in s1(1) of the Law Reform ( Contributory Negligence ) Act 1945 ( see Appendix B ) refers to " the claimant 's share in the responsibility for the damage " ( not the responsibility for the cause of the damage ) . |
| 2 | He stopped speaking for a moment , like a man walking who comes to a brink ; perhaps it was an artful pause , but it made the stars , the night , seem to wait , as if story , narration , history , lay imbricated in the nature of things ; and the cosmos was for the story , not the story for the cosmos . |
| 3 | But why not the hall for a change ? |
| 4 | They are not the reasons for the torture that I would be suffering in his place . |
| 5 | Man was made for the state , and not the state for the man . |
| 6 | The smoothing procedure may be determined in advance but this is not the case for the shape and form of the final result : the data is allowed to speak for itself . |
| 7 | Naturally the male 's reproductive success rises with the number of females on his territory : but this is not the case for the females themselves . |
| 8 | The BCG matrix was chosen because it had clearly measurable axes for hypothetical examples , which is not the case for the McKinsey-GE matrix . |
| 9 | This is not the case for the Riemann tensor : it vanishes wherever space–time is flat , whatever generalized coordinates are chosen . |
| 10 | He was not the man for the task , once Will Douglas was lost to him . ’ |
| 11 | Edward Adeane was not the man for the job . |
| 12 | The formal rules and regimen are not the bases for the ways in which ordinary policemen perform their tasks , for very few rankers follow even a proportion of the management 's rules of conduct ( for example see Bittner 1967 ; Cain 1973 ; Chatterton 1976 , 1979 ; Eticson 1982 ; Holdaway 1980 , 1983 ; Manning 1977 , 1979 ; Punch 1979a ; Rubinstein 1973 ; Wilson 1968 ) . |
| 13 | As several well characterized DNA-damaging treatments led to no induction ( Table 1 ) , we conclude that damage to DNA following treatment with oxidants is not the trigger for the induction of this gene . |
| 14 | They have the players to adapt in Young , Hansen , Bradshaw and Evans , but consistently chose the more spectacular alternatives — not the option for a team in their position . |
| 15 | That is not the reason for the order . ’ |
| 16 | The aggregated dogwhelks are feeding and give the appearance of a hunting pack ( that is not the reason for the name dogwhelk ! ) . |
| 17 | In fact that was not the reason for the dispute . |
| 18 | But a check-out line is not the place for the kinds of confrontation senior management might need to have on the shop floor ! |
| 19 | Madeira is not the place for the dedicatad sun-worshipper : it has no beaches and year-round temperatures vary between 19C-23C ( 66F-73F ) . |
| 20 | In the present study there were no significant differences in body weight at the time of sacrifice so this is not the explanation for the discrepancy in tumour yield between this and the two other studies . |
| 21 | She watched him leave the room , her heart heavy , as though she had run a long way uphill , and had not the strength for the return journey . |
| 22 | Are n't the plans for the alterations also on the desk ? |
| 23 | It was n't the occasion for a discussion of the English notion of innocence until proven guilty . |
| 24 | the trouble is though when you have these meetings you go and people say well I do n't agree with this and I do n't agree with that and somebody says well this is n't the matter for the P T A this is a matter for the governors and then when you try and , like Gary I 'll go and approach with the governors , surely this is n't a matter for the governors , this really ought to be , you know , the , |