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 : |