Example sentences of "[be] [not/n't] [verb] out for " in BNC.
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| 1 | All your enthusiasm vanishes ; not only have you not been able to ‘ do ’ it , but you are now convinced you are not cut out for mathematics teaching at all and none of your pupils could produce anything like that . |
| 2 | Even if the species did so , we would have little or no chance of picking up the message , because — to repeat — we are not looking out for it . |
| 3 | ‘ We 're not looking out for her , Mother . |
| 4 | Have you decided you 're not cut out for a permanent relationship ? |
| 5 | So w we 're not charging out for them at a high enough rate . |
| 6 | Oh well they 're not , I mean , they 're not put out for |
| 7 | I tell you , I 'm not giving you a penny more for clothes , I 'm not paying for any driving lessons when you 're seventeen , I 'm not shelling out for another disco , I 'm not giving you another lift to a party that everyone else in your year 's going to and you 'd be a freak if you missed it . |
| 8 | You know , I suspect I 'm not cut out for brothels . |
| 9 | The police , still clustered by their vans , were not watching out for trouble . |
| 10 | So no voter who gave Craig a second preference could be sure that it would actually be registered , for his paper could be one of the 3,813 — 1,476 = 2,337 that were not picked out for transfer . |
| 11 | On reflection , he rather regrets that they were n't looking out for each other . |
| 12 | The opening fourteen chapters of Scale 1 provide a context of definitions for Hilton 's particular address to a recluse asking advice on the contemplative life which , in the first chapter , he acknowledges to be a demanding process : Although in defining active and contemplative life Hilton makes it clear that contemplative life belongs especially he , characteristically , makes it clear that it is not ruled out for actives . |
| 13 | it 's not cutting out for the for the thingy |
| 14 | Apart from the fact that I 've never known her dig up a weed or pick a single daffodil , she simply is n't cut out for that kind of work . ’ |
| 15 | It is n't working out for me , I 've been told I 've got ta increase my payments to a hundred and one pounds fifty two a week for my two children from my previous marriage , and I 've been told by Social Security that the hundred and one pound fifty two a week will take my ex-wife and her husband off income support , so I will be keeping her family and their child . |
| 16 | A public school was more alien to his nature than his father realized : this son was not cut out for a smooth ascent of the ladder of preferment . |
| 17 | Columbus was not cut out for this sort of work . |
| 18 | She was not cut out for subterfuge . |
| 19 | Jamie simply was not cut out for it . |
| 20 | GROWING up on a tobacco farm was enough to convince Cheryl Boston that she was not cut out for the agricultural life . |
| 21 | For example , there was no real requirement to handle Training or Sickness and Absenteeism recording ( although it was not ruled out for the future ) . |
| 22 | However , it was not sent out for review until mid-September , Jones receiving it on the 20th . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I was not crying out for pain pills or anything . |
| 25 | ‘ But by the sound of what she has just said her mother was n't cut out for work , not the kind you 'll find in this quarter , except her last job . |
| 26 | He realized that he ‘ was n't cut out for academic work ’ . |
| 27 | She just was n't cut out for this sort of thing ! |