Example sentences of "[not/n't] a [noun] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now once the benefits were approved er by the Trust Deed and er bearing in mind that the Chairman at that meeting informed the Trustee and I quote in determining the structure of the scheme the company was prepared to enter into consultation with the Trade Unions and Trustees , but this was a consultative process only and not a subject for negotiation ; and their company then went on to seek the er er the transfer of the present contributing members er er and a hundred of the members agreed er to transfer into that new scheme . |
| 2 | Rejected by Tawney ( 1912 ) , this has now been fully vindicated by Dr Kerridge , who has shown that the security conferred on the copyholder by the law was not inferior to that enjoyed by the freeholder , and that it was not a subject for dispute in the courts during the sixteenth century ‘ for the simple reason that the question had been settled long before ’ . |
| 3 | The colleges have always taken the view that accreditation was not a prerequisite for appointment ; a recent survey revealed that approximately one third of physicians were not accredited at the time of their appointment . |
| 4 | However , since this is not a prerequisite for acceptance on the Minor Project , some schools did not form one , and several of those which were formed appear to have lapsed following the completion of the school 's spending phase . |
| 5 | A previous knowledge of computing may be of some advantage initially but is not a prerequisite for entry to the course . |
| 6 | And it 's not a night for trouble . ’ |
| 7 | Y you 'll see amongst the plans that you 've , you 've got before you , plan number seven actually , should n't really be with these papers because it 's not a proposal for approval , but it does show the extent of the work that 's been done and the key element there is that there are these speed cushions I mentioned earlier on as a possible way forward there , which has been in consultation . |
| 8 | It was revealed on Aug. 5 that the special prosecutor in the Iran-contra affair , Lawrence E. Walsh , had informed Ronald Reagan that his office considered the former President " simply as a witness " in the investigation and not a candidate for indictment . |
| 9 | Unlike the proceedings of the general council twelve years before , these were the meetings of a debating society , not a struggle for power to control the army and through it the government of the country . |
| 10 | This was not a problem for HARPY since it represented and recognised complete utterances . |
| 11 | Secondly , s11 of the Inheritance Tax Act 1984 provides that a disposition is not a transfer for value for inheritance tax if made by one party to the marriage for the maintenance of the other party . |
| 12 | It is not a test for AIDS , nor will it show whether or when a person will become ill . |
| 13 | For an office worker in the UK this is not a reason for complacency , but a source of opportunity . |
| 14 | The IOC Medical Commission was aware of this , and , for this reason , the presence of a Y chromosome was not a reason for exclusion ; a complete physical examination was done before any decision about eligibility . |
| 15 | It 's not a class for stress management . |
| 16 | Therefore , despite the fact that a little over a year had passed since the Report had been received , he suggested that the interval between publication and the debate was not a matter for regret . |
| 17 | In answer to questions the Home Secretary at this time had stated that this was an issue for individual courts to make requests of the press , not a matter for legislation . |
| 18 | However , some risks may simply be unacceptable and therefore not a matter for compromise or optimisation . |
| 19 | At one point he talks of the extension over time of ‘ a personality ’ rather than of ‘ a person ’ , and might have said that , even if the general knew what he did as a boy , it could be nothing to him , no part of his adult conception of himself , and so not a matter for guilt or blame . |
| 20 | But this is a matter for concern , not a matter for despair . |
| 21 | Yet , while he considers his relationships to be ‘ personal ’ and not a matter for newspaper talk , he played the public role of superstud for years . |
| 22 | ‘ In my work I am involved in life and death situations so , on the scale of things , I decided that losing an election was not a matter for heartbreak . ’ |
| 23 | Normally this is not a matter for negotiation : whichever one the parent picks is the priority . |
| 24 | A vote for PR , as represented by the Liberal Democrats , is not a vote for fairness , but for injustice ; not a vote for stability , but for political chaos . |
| 25 | A vote for PR , as represented by the Liberal Democrats , is not a vote for fairness , but for injustice ; not a vote for stability , but for political chaos . |
| 26 | Self falls under the auspices of Sun 's project Spring , which , as originally reported back in March ( UX No 377 ) , is not a replacement for Sun 's operating system , but a collection of object technologies which the company hopes it will be able to use to short circuit the evolution of Solaris and its software development environments . |
| 27 | Environmental archaeology is not a replacement for archaeology , nor does it claim to be entirely separate from , or inherently superior to , the more traditional humanities approach . |
| 28 | This is not a formula for moderation , but for national drift . |
| 29 | Again it is this incomprehension of social mobility which seems to have caused my ACC to describe an officer who took a degree and then left to become a solicitor as ‘ a bad experience for the force ’ ( and not a gain for society ) . |
| 30 | For Engels , by contrast , the possibility revealed by the gentile constitution was a major guarantee that the Marxist vision of the withering away of the State in a future communist society was not a recipe for chaos , as was argued by his opponents . |