Example sentences of "not the [noun] for the [noun sg] " 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 | They are not the reasons for the torture that I would be suffering in his place . |
| 4 | Man was made for the state , and not the state for the man . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He was not the man for the task , once Will Douglas was lost to him . ’ |
| 7 | Edward Adeane was not the man for the job . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | That is not the reason for the order . ’ |
| 10 | The aggregated dogwhelks are feeding and give the appearance of a hunting pack ( that is not the reason for the name dogwhelk ! ) . |
| 11 | In fact that was not the reason for the dispute . |
| 12 | Madeira is not the place for the dedicatad sun-worshipper : it has no beaches and year-round temperatures vary between 19C-23C ( 66F-73F ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |