Example sentences of "[not/n't] [noun] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have not calls for action by organisations such as the Society for Black Lawyers been met by Government intransigence ? |
| 2 | They are not times for conflict and confrontation but opportunities for co-operation and celebration . |
| 3 | ‘ It is not sport for sport 's sake , ’ says Mr Hawkins , who is an ex-Harlem-Globetrotter , ‘ but a way of imposing a structure on undisciplined lives : in a sports team they turn up regularly , on time , in uniform , and train hard . |
| 4 | Whatever , whatever they are , no , you 've got tabs there , but I 'm saying do n't use those up yet , they 're not tabs for stuff that 's going to be behind , they 're actually for pages and so on . |
| 5 | These are not tensors for example is the cosine of the angle between the 1 " -axis and the 2-axis . |
| 6 | No doubt there were communications between different groups , but the only ones preserved , those of John Ball ( even if authentic ) , were cryptic allegorical utterances , not commands for action ( 11 , pp.381–3 ; 78 , p.214 ) . |
| 7 | Time was made for man , not man for time . |
| 8 | Not word for word , now |
| 9 | Because the assay requires 32 P-labelling of proteins by PKA and has to be performed on heat denatured nuclear extracts , it is not necessarily quantitative ( because it will be affected by the degree to which the protein is already phosphorylated ) and will fail to detect heat labile proteins or proteins that are not substrates for PKA . |
| 10 | They were not ones for put-ring their hand to the plough then looking back . |
| 11 | To say that it 's not value for money , how can you . |
| 12 | This is not value for money , we 're working with very , very needy people in our community . |
| 13 | Not exactly side-splitting , but not grounds for assault either , one would think . |
| 14 | Thus , while the risks of ERCP are relatively fewer , this is not grounds for complacency . |
| 15 | It is not time for Labour . |
| 16 | You are cautious/play it safe/hold back/do n't experiment for fear of making a mistake/failing/looking stupid . |
| 17 | It was n't squares for hopscotch . |
| 18 | " I do n't pretend that medical science has yet found a method of treating cholera that 's quite satisfactory , I do n't say there is n't room for improvement , ladies and gentlemen … but what I do say is that it 's the duty of a member of the medical profession to use the best available treatment known and accepted by his fellow physicians ! |
| 19 | understand the meaning behind the sentence but you could n't word for word . |
| 20 | There simply was n't time for lunch and she worked straight through . |
| 21 | There certainly was n't time for thought just now , and had there been I 'd probably have been sick . ’ |