Example sentences of "[noun] was not [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lock was not designed for rough treatment . |
| 2 | This could be done , and the lord would be in a position to rack-rent , if there was any demand for land , and although this latter condition was not met for much of the fifteenth century , it did apply as the sixteenth century advanced . |
| 3 | The pastry crust that had topped the pie during its parade through the village was not eaten for hygienic reasons , so 50,000 squares of puff pastry had been baked separately and these were reheated — not too successfully — in a mobile oven in the huge open-sided marquee into which the pie , on its trailer , eventually came to rest . |
| 4 | Specific ethical approval was not obtained for physiological recordings , which were considered part of clinical management . |
| 5 | It is likely that Gorbachev 's Mediterranean initiative was not intended for serious negotiation . |
| 6 | Only the second ball of the over was not hit for four . |
| 7 | They searched carefully until they were satisfied that the sensitive area was not armed for self-destruction , as many were . |
| 8 | Together with this evidence must be the proof that the passenger was not licensed for that class of vehicle etc . |
| 9 | They were charged that they did contrive , design and plot to murder MOIR NcILCHENICH widow of Ellister for mere avarice and covetousness to attain to her money which they supposed she had lying by her in her house and in pursuance of this plot did upon some day of April 1698 in dead time of night murder her by strangling her with her own belt and thereafter threw her body over a rock into the sea so that the deed was not discovered for some time . |
| 10 | Culturalists will point out — as C. S. Lewis once did — that much poetry of the past was not written for aesthetic ends , but for religious , political , or other social purposes . |
| 11 | Faced with four alternative approaches to valuation — whether it should be based on capital values , rental values , maintenance costs or rebuilding costs — its choice was not to go for one of them , or even a mixture of two of them , but to go for all four of them . |
| 12 | Despite the mixed response from critics , Dustin felt pride in his achievement and confidence in the film itself , so he expressed his anger when Little Big Man was not nominated for any Oscars . |
| 13 | Napoleon is believed to have been warmly in favour even though the tunnel was not designed for military purposes . |
| 14 | ‘ Sources close to the ‘ artiste ’ suggest the decision to cancel the tour was not made for glamorous or news-worthy reasons , like police/local authority objections or fear on the streets of Britain … just that he ca n't be arsed . ’ |
| 15 | The decision to fall into line was not made for ignoble reasons , but from financial necessity . |
| 16 | This was seen as a very significant move , given India 's longstanding insistence that Kashmir was an exclusively bilateral issue , but subsequent statements by the Ministry of External Affairs emphasised that purpose of the meeting was purely to give information and that India was not asking for international mediation . |
| 17 | Analysis to this level was not undertaken for all sub-systems , only those where some significant change was implied , as even the secondary expansion was extensive and time-consuming . |
| 18 | Although her satire on wedlock was not published for more than a century after her death , its composition elicited an immediate rebuke from her brother Samuel , who admonished her thus : Repent , renounce all wicked wit : … |
| 19 | The house was not vacated for several months . |
| 20 | Naturally an appeal was made by the McLaren team but the dispute was not resolved for many weeks . |