Example sentences of "not [prep] the business " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shildon had excused his initial omissions on the grounds that he had concealed that he was engaged in work which was not for the business section . |
| 2 | He is not into the business of making orthodox movies . |
| 3 | ‘ We are not in the business of polluting the environment , ’ Mr Wheeler insisted . |
| 4 | I am not in the business of arguing with either . |
| 5 | The United States was not in the business of helping to prolong British imperial power . |
| 6 | We are not in the business of popularity ; it is too bad if others do not like the cross . |
| 7 | He is not in the business of ingratiating himself with Stuart Baxter . |
| 8 | We are not in the business of becoming pop stars . ’ |
| 9 | Very clearly we are not in the business of directing people into modes of prayer that are unsuitable for them . |
| 10 | These companies are in the business of selling , not in the business of education . |
| 11 | ‘ If the situation does not ease we would take advice nearer to the date from the Foreign Office about the tour , but at the moment we are not in the business of calling it off unilaterally . ’ |
| 12 | He was not in the business of inventing metaphors or illustrating stories with moral cameos . |
| 13 | According to a report in the Financial Times of Canada , the court ruled that the man concerned was not in the business of being a thief and so the cash he had stolen was not ‘ income ’ for the purposes of the law . |
| 14 | Says Phildrew partner Ian Hawkins : ‘ We are in the risk business , but we 're not in the business of losing money . ’ |
| 15 | Boss Denis Smith , after Saturday 's 3–0 win over BIRMINGHAM , said : ‘ I am not in the business of selling my best players . ’ |
| 16 | Amnesty is not in the business of commenting on the attitudes of any culture — thank goodness . |
| 17 | Aviation Leathercraft of Thruxton are not in the business of replicating or copying the famous Irvin jacket — modelled here by Tony Banfield and Caz Short — they have the exclusive licence from the original manufacturer . |
| 18 | Bob Moulton , the Climbers ' Club guidebook business manager , added some perspective to the argument by saying : ‘ We are not in the business of embarrassing people . |
| 19 | The law recognises that the shareholders ' interest lies ultimately in the value of their shares and not in the business as such , or at least , it recognises that it should be the shareholders who determine the outcome of a bid , and hence ( as we will see in more detail in Chapter 5 ) prohibits certain forms of defensive action on the part of the target company board which could have the effect of depriving the members of an opportunity to dispose of their investment on favourable terms . |
| 20 | It is not in the business of scattering latter-day garden gnomes . |
| 21 | I 'm not in the business of writing travelogues . |
| 22 | A government official added : ‘ We are not in the business of taking moral decisions for other countries ’ . |
| 23 | We are not in the business of making bland expressions of concern . |
| 24 | I am not in the business of calibrating the relative evil of the atrocities carried out by the IRA , but I am conscious that the events that we have just witnessed come in the train of the attack on the remembrance day ceremony in Enniskillen four years ago , when 13 civilians were killed , and of the proxy bomb a year ago , which killed a civilian who had been tied to the driver 's seat of his vehicle . |
| 25 | We are not in the business of giving handouts to the Duke of Westminster because he happens to move out of the present matrimonial home and into a single person 's flat . |
| 26 | We are not in the business of expecting other people who can ill afford it to pick up the cost of a single person 's discount for the rich . |
| 27 | We are not in the business of putting on the backs of the poor the cost of the 50 per cent . |
| 28 | Now I 'm not in the business of counting but my rough guess is that this paragon of nature was , on the majority of occasions , abusing his co-religionists . |
| 29 | A secondary objective will be to identify companies not in the business sector but which may have an acquisition strategy to diversify into that sector . |
| 30 | And er as they 're not in the business of providing risk capital , they have to find er some poor mug or opportunist to do so , and I think this is why increased attention is being focused on on business angels as a source . |