Example sentences of "is not [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I swear , ’ Corbett said emphatically , ‘ that my intention is not to spy for the English King . |
| 2 | This accounts for the high turnover in membership … the recruit having seen emphasis laid on military activity is not prepared for the political activity which must come before it . |
| 3 | But man is not made for a solitary , self-sufficient existence . |
| 4 | This community has obvious affinities to the scrub vegetation of small islands and ravines described above , but is not recorded for the Outer Hebrides in the NVC . |
| 5 | In Rangoon Nu announced : ‘ AFPFL is not calling for a general strike among workers at the present time . |
| 6 | The right of rejection is not given for an ordinary breach of warranty . |
| 7 | This is not catering for the indigenous population of Ayrshire and Arran . |
| 8 | The squabbling is not fitting for the so-called ambassador for Liverpool . |
| 9 | So I really , my , my , my advice is not to aim for a hundred percent efficiency but always to programme five percent optimistically . |
| 10 | The weather forecast is good and rain is not expected for the next few days . |
| 11 | Sometimes the tears come for no reason ( by which phrase we mean that someone is not crying for a particular reason , for something or someone in particular , but that they are crying for everything ) . |
| 12 | This standard Planner is designed to give a general purpose catchment for each centre and is not designed for a specific retail sector . |
| 13 | To be sure , ‘ Wisden ’ is not to blame for the absurd quarrel over the number of centuries — 99 or 100 by the end of the England tour of India ? — scored by England 's present captain , Graham Gooch . |
| 14 | Normally , each hair follicle goes through a resting phase ( telogen ) every few years : hair stops growing , falls out and is n't replaced for a few months . |
| 15 | Clint Eastwood ‘ When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher 's knife and a hard-on , I figure he is n't collecting for the Red Cross , ’ Dirty Harry |
| 16 | This is n't intended for the profound jottings which occur in the back of the van after a gig ( to be auctioned at Sotherby 's when you are dead ! ) . |
| 17 | The company is n't waiting for the 64-bit Sparc parts it originally intended to use but , like its ICL cousin , is expected to use existing superscalar Sparc CPUs from Texas Instruments Inc and the Ross Technology Inc unit that Fujitsu is acquiring from Cypress Semiconductor Corp ( UX No 436 ) . |