Example sentences of "not the place [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , Peru 's just not the place to be at the moment . ’ |
| 2 | If top panel is without perspective and bottom is nothing but perspective , then is that not the place for a different kind of vision ? |
| 3 | Tate , so devoted to Eliot 's precedent , appears to have dismissed as amiably perfunctory the respect that Eliot , not quite consistently but repeatedly , accorded to Pound 's prose-writings and Pound 's literary opinions ; and — so it might be argued , though this is not the place for it — Tate 's own verse , and the verse of those he influenced , were the worse for having taken note of Eliot 's precedent without attending equally to Pound 's . |
| 4 | This is not the place for any lengthy examination of the concept of justice . |
| 5 | This is not the place for a long explanation or analysis of the history of the period , but a brief resume may be beneficial for some readers . |
| 6 | Femininity is fine , but suggestiveness is n't — the office is not the place for braless nipples or knickerless minis , and if you 've any doubts about whether an outfit is unsuitable , do n't wear it ; |
| 7 | Madeira is not the place for the dedicatad sun-worshipper : it has no beaches and year-round temperatures vary between 19C-23C ( 66F-73F ) . |
| 8 | But a check-out line is not the place for the kinds of confrontation senior management might need to have on the shop floor ! |
| 9 | This is not the place for an exhaustive description of the model . |
| 10 | This is not the place for a jurisprudential exegesis on the nature of discretion . |
| 11 | That 's not the place for entertainment — it 's for your knitting and your eating and your bit of slap and tickle . |
| 12 | This is not the place for a detailed critique of REPLAN , but elements within it ( such as the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education ( NIACE ) local development project ) are currently at a crucial stage . |
| 13 | The hall was not the place for little pounding feet . |
| 14 | It was a secret as dark as that couplet ( written in pencil on the back page of " First Lessons in English Grammar " ) read over and over and never to be spoken aloud : " Pee-Po-Bum-Shit-Piddle-Bugger-Damn " Keep out of the farmyard was all the grown-ups would say if she told , it 's not the place for little girls … |
| 15 | This is not the place for a proper discussion of Empson 's views , which like a great deal of British work are more concerned with critical method than with theory ( he wrote ( 1950 : 594 ) that ‘ a critic ought to trust his own nose , like the hunting dog , and if he lets any kind of theory or principle distract him from that , he is not doing his work ’ ) . |
| 16 | The course of my life during the period from the end of 1940 until the autumn of 1945 is one of which I intend to write an account ; but this is not the place for it . |
| 17 | ‘ Colette says a lounge is not the place for books . |
| 18 | While I do not regret spending the time with my children in their early years , I feel that the medical world is not the place for people trying to combine a family and career . ’ |
| 19 | It is not the place of this House to take final decisions . |
| 20 | Although an advertisement is not the place in which to list all the snags of the job it should mention fundamental conditions like shift work or weekend working so you do not waste time seeing people for whom such conditions would be unacceptable . |
| 21 | Their reservation stressed that ‘ while a bounty should be given in aid of the maintenance of children it should be given to all parents for all children and the income tax is not the place in which to make a gift to one special minority of relatively well-to-do persons while refusing the gift to the great mass of poor parents who need it most ’ . |