Example sentences of "[not/n't] the [noun] for the " 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 | These factors alone would have been sufficient to convince advertisers that it was not the medium for the affluent ‘ never-had-it-so-good ’ Macmillan era . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I assure the House that money is not the problem for the old people 's homes in my constituency . |
| 5 | They are not the reasons for the torture that I would be suffering in his place . |
| 6 | Man was made for the state , and not the state for the man . |
| 7 | Naturally the male 's reproductive success rises with the number of females on his territory : but this is not the case for the females themselves . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ( This is not the case for the Royal Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children , RSSPCC . ) |
| 10 | The BCG matrix was chosen because it had clearly measurable axes for hypothetical examples , which is not the case for the McKinsey-GE matrix . |
| 11 | This is not the case for the Riemann tensor : it vanishes wherever space–time is flat , whatever generalized coordinates are chosen . |
| 12 | This , however , is not the case for the first and third examples using the same adjective . |
| 13 | Edward Adeane was not the man for the job . |
| 14 | He was certainly not the man for the various blue-blood , hard-man , gangsterish marine and commando outfits that he used every social connection to wangle his way into . |
| 15 | He was not the man for the task , once Will Douglas was lost to him . ’ |
| 16 | The formal rules and regimen are not the bases for the ways in which ordinary policemen perform their tasks , for very few rankers follow even a proportion of the management 's rules of conduct ( for example see Bittner 1967 ; Cain 1973 ; Chatterton 1976 , 1979 ; Eticson 1982 ; Holdaway 1980 , 1983 ; Manning 1977 , 1979 ; Punch 1979a ; Rubinstein 1973 ; Wilson 1968 ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In fact that was not the reason for the dispute . |
| 19 | The aggregated dogwhelks are feeding and give the appearance of a hunting pack ( that is not the reason for the name dogwhelk ! ) . |
| 20 | That is not the reason for the order . ’ |
| 21 | It was here that the great receptions and gala balls took place , though it was not the setting for the traditional New Year 's ambassadorial reception as described by Hubner , which was that of the Throne part played by the Empress , since this was her first appearance at such a function and it thus enables us to observe her on an occasion of high formality : |
| 22 | Madeira is not the place for the dedicatad sun-worshipper : it has no beaches and year-round temperatures vary between 19C-23C ( 66F-73F ) . |
| 23 | But a check-out line is not the place for the kinds of confrontation senior management might need to have on the shop floor ! |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Are n't the plans for the alterations also on the desk ? |
| 27 | the trouble is though when you have these meetings you go and people say well I do n't agree with this and I do n't agree with that and somebody says well this is n't the matter for the P T A this is a matter for the governors and then when you try and , like Gary I 'll go and approach with the governors , surely this is n't a matter for the governors , this really ought to be , you know , the , |