Example sentences of "not the [noun] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reference to the ‘ pièces de Marais ’ are probably the Pièces à une et à deux violes ( 1686 ) rather than the Pièces en trio pour les flûtes , violon & dessus de viole ( 1692 ) , since the viol pieces ( and not the ones for flute ) are found in Jacques 's posthumous inventory . |
| 2 | He suggests that IBM has been using cash to offer attractive financing to help sell mainframes to generate the revenue growth to cover the cost of its 180,000-strong mainframe-oriented sales and service organisations , and needs to work out how to make the mainframe business the cash cow it should be , focussing on the near $20,000m in sales , general and administrative costs , not the $6,500m for research and development , pointing out that saying it is cutting $1,000m off this , mainly on mainframes , while not making a proportionate cut in costs , is a recipe for disaster . |
| 3 | Not the clothes for cross-country , and he would stand out like a beacon on the fringes of the villages and collectives that he must circle like a fox coming to the dustbins for food . |
| 4 | The essential matter which has been argued before me is whether or not the order for payment out to Crossman Block should now be confirmed . |
| 5 | This was not the time for prayer . |
| 6 | ‘ It is not the time for vaulting that five-bar gate , ’ he says . |
| 7 | ‘ For God 's sake , Laura — this is not the time for conversation ! ’ |
| 8 | Tory smallholdings spokesman Coun Michael Hedley said : ‘ We agree the county council should keep the future of the estate under consideration but now is not the time for change . ’ |
| 9 | They have not the time for speech training , and are perhaps afraid to embarrass you , and by criticising your speech to add to your shyness in discussion . |
| 10 | Now was not the time for emotion , but for logic . |
| 11 | That 's not the place for entertainment — it 's for your knitting and your eating and your bit of slap and tickle . |
| 12 | Finally , on Sunday morning Emerson woke up to find it raining — and Monza is not the track for rain , nor is rain a help to someone on the third row of the grid . |
| 13 | Promotion for Hilde was not the cause for celebration she had expected : |
| 14 | Marthus did n't actually foresee this erm , this leap in from technology and as a result he was basing his predictions on past trends so if past trends had continued would have been , he w , he would been correct but because erm , agriculturalists started to erm , use technology and at that time it was a very sort of low technology , but nevertheless it would , would 've production dramatically you know , you do n't think of drainage as being particularly high tech but it can increase the , the yield on a crop sort of four or five times and so si simple drainage systems would be introduced erm ro rotations were being introduced , again rotations you think of being fairly straightforward but erm prior to the agricultural revolution rotations were n't used rotations can improve the fertility of the soil and er yields as well right okay , so agriculture produces a homogenous product , by and large and er as there is n't the scope , the product differentiation , and there is n't the scope for specialisation because we 'd need a farm the size of Europe to feed the world with , w with wheat . |
| 15 | Now although we can differentiate the products er agricultural products , we can only do that at the very final stage in processing , by and large , where there 's much less scope after product differentiation right , at the er the raw material erm level , which is where most agricultural trade continues er , most trade in agricultural products is in the raw commodity , not the refined commodity the refining , there might be the processing and the manufacturing , tend to occur in the country of consumption and not in the country of production a number of complicated , erm political reasons erm alright , but the but because there is n't the scope for product differentiation alright , we have n't witnessed an increase in intra industry trade in agricultural goods whereas we have done for manufactured goods because there is scope for intra industry trade er yeah scope for product differentiation . |
| 16 | and yet with this nymphomaniac , who almost repelled him … but it was n't the moment for philosophy . |
| 17 | ‘ It is n't the weather for sightseeing , but he might care to look at the old Adlon hotel . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I know , but it was n't the weather for cycling . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I have n't the time for romance , ’ he said shortly . |