Example sentences of "was not [vb pp] out for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Columbus was not cut out for this sort of work . |
| 3 | She was not cut out for subterfuge . |
| 4 | Jamie simply was not cut out for it . |
| 5 | GROWING up on a tobacco farm was enough to convince Cheryl Boston that she was not cut out for the agricultural life . |
| 6 | For example , there was no real requirement to handle Training or Sickness and Absenteeism recording ( although it was not ruled out for the future ) . |
| 7 | However , it was not sent out for review until mid-September , Jones receiving it on the 20th . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | He realized that he ‘ was n't cut out for academic work ’ . |
| 11 | She just was n't cut out for this sort of thing ! |