Example sentences of "be not for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not for sale , not now , not ever . ’ |
| 2 | The Alpine stages are not for youngsters . |
| 3 | Cards with large areas of unpunched holes are not for tuck . |
| 4 | As a peasant from the Kursk guberniia put it in 1922 : ‘ We are not for priests nor for the church , but if only the Comrades would give us a little of what they promise : they promise a school and Socialism , but our hands are still as empty as ever . ’ |
| 5 | My little excesses are not for public Access |
| 6 | We have also noted above that Johnes ( 1990 ) in her study of student wastage notes that while A-level scores are important predictors for men they are not for women . |
| 7 | The end doors , with sliding glass-panel window for ventilation , are not for passenger use . |
| 8 | But we are not for sale . ’ |
| 9 | Other historical references included Stephen Seal with ‘ Look , Noah , I do n't care what you say is going to happen , these boats are not for sale ! ’ , |
| 10 | They are not for sale , ’ she added sharply and Melissa was at pains to reassure her . |
| 11 | erm are not for example , if you phone London from Bournemouth it 's not the same band as if you phoned erm |
| 12 | But people feel banks are too unapproachable : as one of our interviewees put it , ‘ they are not for people who live on council estates ’ . |
| 13 | Well they 're not for amateurs are they ? |
| 14 | ‘ They 're not for people to read , ’ Emily said . |
| 15 | They 're not for sale . |
| 16 | But they 're not for Pussy , ’ she added , with a disapproving look at Faustina now held firmly in Sophia 's arms . |
| 17 | This lady she said I 'm not for ages but this lady is in the age range I want she said and you 're under sixty five . |
| 18 | I 'm afraid I 'm not for sale , Your Highness . |
| 19 | Conservative group leader Tony Richmond accused finance committee chair Jan Taylor of saying the council would have set a higher budget if it were not for government spending constraints . |
| 20 | This death of Solomon reissues would be understandable if it were not for treatment given by EMI to other pianists . |
| 21 | Lord Templeman said that such matters were not for judges ‘ who are not qualified to listen ’ but for the Minister , for Members of Parliament , and ultimately for the electorate . |
| 22 | Country house visiting , which had been common in the eighteenth century and Regency when everyone liked to have their taste admired , became infrequent as even the greatest houses closed their gates to visitors , persuaded that the sanctities of ‘ home ’ were not for exhibition to the public eye . |
| 23 | But , she told herself sternly , she was nothing but a foolish girl , men the like of Craig Grenfell were not for Hari Morgan . |
| 24 | The New York-based human rights organization Asia Watch issued a report on Sept. 1 claiming that political prisoners were being used as forced labour in prison factories producing for export in Liaoning Province , and rejecting the Chinese government 's claim that prison-made products were not for export . |
| 25 | If it were not for Section 8 of the Contempt of Court Act , we might be able to make reforms more rationally on the basis of , at least , a minimal sample of the recorded deliberations of informed and unidentified jurors . |
| 26 | The key demands of the 1989 movement were not for democracy or an end to corruption . |
| 27 | The key demands of the 1989 movement were not for democracy or an end to corruption . |
| 28 | The mammoth catalogue raisonné of Magritte 's work would almost certainly not have come into existence if it were not for John ( d. 1973 ) and Dominique de Menil . |
| 29 | It must in the first place be said that women in the past were not for example doctors or politicians , so it is hardly surprising that they should not have held public office in the church . |
| 30 | More straightforward were the comments recorded by Leonora Eyles of women in the early 1920s who declared that they would not mind married life so much if it were not for bedtime , or the anecdote related by a birth control pioneer to a 1930 conference on the provision of birth control information by public health authorities : |