Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adj] for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said yesterday that it was not profitable for the new trust members to speculate on why the Scottish Office had not appointed a member of the medical school . |
| 2 | it 's not uniformed for the whole sentence |
| 3 | ‘ It is not pleasant for a human being to pass judgment on another and say that he is evil through and through without any redeeming features , but that is the conclusion I am forced to come to about you . ’ |
| 4 | At present it is not possible for a foreign band to buy its airline tickets from Aeroflot with its rouble earnings , but only in hard currency . |
| 5 | However , the construction of a fixed index-replicating portfolio is not possible for a geometric index . |
| 6 | Lord Ackner felt that the route did not cease to be available simply because it was not possible for an unaccompanied child to walk it without danger . |
| 7 | Each unit represents a wide range of investments , spreading the risk to an extent that 's normally not possible for an individual investor . |
| 8 | And see whether or not there is basis for an agreement on that because if it is possible to get an agreement on that it is infinitely easier to persuade the government that regulations have to be written which cover all of these issues and cover all of the sectors and that therefore makes it easier to create a situation in which it is not possible for an independent company that wish to ignore the good practice guidelines to simply go ahead and do so . |
| 9 | Bearing in mind the figures and the fact that French farmers regularly burn lorry loads of English lamb and Italian grapes with complete impunity and that it is not possible for an English lorry firm to go to Germany and to load up with goods to bring back to the United Kingdom , should not the European Community try to walk before it tries to run ? |
| 10 | It was not possible for the NFER project team to study in any detail the role of investigative work in a graduated test scheme , partly because few schools associated with the project had gone very far towards introducing it into their curricula . |
| 11 | Drawing on an analysis of American inter-organizational relations Lindblom argues that it is simply not possible for the central state to impose its wishes on the local state . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's not right for a married woman to have a man in the house and he not her husband , ’ he says . |
| 13 | It 's not right for a young girl . |
| 14 | It was not seemly for the Second Son to outshine the father in this way and I knew instinctively that before a year had passed there would be more building in the compound . |
| 15 | It was not impossible for a poor gentleman to rise in the army , even without political connections , but for those lacking the interest of a great man promotion depended upon opportunities to demonstrate outstanding gallantry and leadership qualities . |
| 16 | ‘ But when a team is doing badly like we are , it 's not easy for a new player to settle in . |
| 17 | That was my job so therefore my hands had to be constantly clean and that 's not easy for a seventeen year old to keep his hands clean all the time but I had to . |
| 18 | ‘ Not easy for a middle-aged broad like me , ’ she joked to herself . |
| 19 | In the event that the defender contends that the case is not appropriate for the Optional Procedure , argument to that effect can be made , but insofar as the Diet Roll will be heard approximately eight weeks after service of the Summons , a decision as to how to proceed will require to be taken at an early stage . |
| 20 | Nearly one out of three sixteen year olds are without work , not much for the Tory law and order . |
| 21 | It 's not natural for a young man to be frowsting away indoors , in a fine crisp day like this ! |
| 22 | It is not unusual for a private company to have rigorous controls governing sale of shares , and this is so in Faber 's case , where the shareholdings break down evenly among employees , T S Eliot 's widow Valerie and the Faber family . |
| 23 | There is a large overlap between trade marks and passing-off and it is not unusual for a legal action to involve both passing-off and trade marks . |
| 24 | It is not unusual for a new Member to be welcomed , despite the fact that he may not yet have contributed to our proceedings . |
| 25 | Her Yorkshire childhood sounds unremarkable — lacking in affection perhaps , but it was not unusual for a young girl of a certain class and a certain generation to be brought up by a nanny rather than a mummy ; to be sent away when she was ‘ five years old and a day ’ ; to be schooled in a certain stiff-upper-lip mentality ; to show no emotion . |
| 26 | The problem of interpretation is compounded in considering MPs occupation and interests ; it was not unusual for a young man from a landed family to be called to the Bar ( but not to practice ) , to serve in the armed forces ( but not to become a professional soldier ) , and then to settle down to a political career with several directorships . |
| 27 | Up to 100 eggs per spawning act are produced and 500–600 is not unusual for a complete spawning phase . |
| 28 | It was not unusual for a direct appeal to be made in a memorial text to casual passers-by , or for visually impressive and even amusing monuments to command attention from the side of a road . |
| 29 | It was not unusual for a single employer to have to negotiate with five or more of the more than 300 trade unions . |
| 30 | To give one example of the size of the documentation problem it is not unusual for a large process plant to have two or three hundred volumes of instructions . |