Example sentences of "[be] [not/n't] [adv] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is for this same reason that training programmes in treatment centres are not normally considered for potential counsellor trainees until they have been in recovery for at least two years and preferably longer . |
| 2 | You may think that there were quite a lot of us , but illegal hare coursers are not well known for verbal or physical reticence . |
| 3 | Regrettably , most overseas hotels are not well equipped for disabled holidaymakers . |
| 4 | The Prime Minister is right — the Government are not wholly to blame for this recession , but they are chiefly to blame . |
| 5 | The graves around us on a stifling hot morning ( funerals here are not long postponed for obvious reasons ) were decorated with wilting flowers and photographs of deceased mamas and departed children . |
| 6 | Well , I think he was good player — but playing in that Liverpool side was nt difficult , and he s not really played for any other side so its hard to tell exactly how good he is . |
| 7 | But that 's , but that 's what I mean , they 're making , they 're saying let's make , when the white people make films black and white people watch them , they 're not specifically made for white people , not specifically made for black people , it just happens to be white actors . |
| 8 | They 're not really used for serious cooking but are OK for making a hot drink en route . |
| 9 | Talk about jumping the gun — the machines are n't even announced for another three weeks , but Hopkinton , Massachusetts-based Clearpoint Research Corp reckons that there are potential users out there that already realise they ordered too little memory for the things and want to be prepared by having add-on memory ready and waiting on site . |
| 10 | Such areas were not often used for arable , until later drainage operations ensured that water could be kept off the fields for most of the year . |
| 11 | 2 clubs that were not only fighting for European places , but are good enough to win the league , but we obviously need a few slip ups at Old trafford . |
| 12 | Bakker , however , is at pains to point out that dinosaurs were not necessarily built for sustained speed any more than mammals are . |
| 13 | The frequent complaint that ships , once requisitioned , were not actually used for several months , thereby denying their owners the use of them in between times , was not always the fault of the wind or weather . |
| 14 | String theories also lead to infinities , but it is thought they will all cancel out in versions like the heterotic string ( though this is not yet known for certain ) . |
| 15 | Not only does the site not have planning permission for office development but it is not even zoned for this use and would thus require a material contravention order or a Section 4 motion by the City fathers to allow any big office development here . |
| 16 | But it is not just played for easy excitement : this is alarming because it is so near the edge of what is possible , and yet it has just enough in reserve for tremendous final prestissimo . |
| 17 | This is not really suited for binocular observation , but it is one of the few Mira variables easily found with binoculars when near maximum . |
| 18 | This method is not commonly used for two main reasons . |
| 19 | Grass is not perfectly balanced for all types of horses all year round either . |
| 20 | In Northern Ireland planning permission is not usually required for normal prospecting activities . |
| 21 | Blood is not only used for straightforward transfusions , products extracted from blood have a whole number of uses — from the treatment of burns to the prevention of infection . |
| 22 | How long he survived his restoration is not certainly known for Northumbrian regnal tradition retained no memory of Eardwulf 's second reign , but there is a possibility that it lasted some three or four years ( see below , p. 196 ) . |
| 23 | The LDDC is not entirely to blame for this . |
| 24 | Natural daylight is not enough to allow for this process . |
| 25 | The motion is n't actually asking for each individual member to be sent a questionnaire and to say where would you like to be because obviously that is totally ridiculous . |
| 26 | Although the process was not widely practised for forty years , the discovery was the crucial step in the mass production of iron for industry , and facilitated the development of the steam engine . |
| 27 | Expansion south towards the nearby colony of Maryland went on fast enough for a pair of surveyors , Mason and Dixon , to have to draw a boundary between the two in 1702 , though this line was not completely accepted for some decades . |
| 28 | In the pre-reform NHS this need for an authoritative source of local decision making was not totally met for two reasons ; the composition of authorities and the inability of the centre to decentralise authority . |
| 29 | It was emphasised that this event was not only intended for those interested in ecumenical groups . |
| 30 | The number of neutrons was not enough to account for all the heat ( a fact that they had been aware . |