Example sentences of "was [not/n't] [verb] [adv prt] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Columbus was not cut out for this sort of work . |
| 2 | Railway stock sent from Black Sea ports to another area , the Middle Volga , was not sent back for more grain , but for the most part ended up in Siberia . |
| 3 | Their lands , which had been seized by the crown in 1308 , by papal decree should have been transferred in 1312 to the Order of the Hospitallers , but in England this transfer was not carried out for some years , during which the king continued to profit from the estates . |
| 4 | He realized that he ‘ was n't cut out for academic work ’ . |
| 5 | She just was n't cut out for this sort of thing ! |
| 6 | that that green was n't put on for that competition . |