Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adj] for [art] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | With this level of distortion , it is not possible for a rise in the corporate tax to reduce ( w/r ) , and this illustrates how the existence of market imperfections may significantly affect the incidence of taxation . |
| 2 | ‘ it seems to me that it is not possible for a person in the position of the bank to exclude the discretion of the court , but one nevertheless starts from the position that the contractual position between the parties is that the costs will be paid on an indemnity basis . |
| 3 | The musical term " leitmotiv " is not inappropriate for the way in which Dickens repeats an idiom or expression , under various modifications and transformations , through episodes of a novel , allowing it to accumulate thematic significance as it goes , an illustration on a small scale of his use of dynamic variation in style . |
| 4 | In such a situation , it is not uncommon for a trustee in bankruptcy to claim the cargo as an asset of the bankruptcy estate , thereby rendering subsequent negotiation of the bill and delivery of the goods uncertain . |
| 5 | Until recently it was not uncommon for a librarian in a public or academic library to carry out an annual check of the entire stock in this way . |
| 6 | The ability to obtain some patronage during an election contest was often essential to success , for it was not uncommon for every candidate in a crowded field to claim to be a friend of the administration in power . |
| 7 | All that shows beyond reasonable doubt that eggs were not responsible for the increase in food poisoning , which has gone up 36 per cent this year , despite an overall 24 per cent drop in egg consumption and the 700,000 birds slaughtered . |
| 8 | In other words , Big Bang was not responsible for the increase in volatility since the crash . |
| 9 | Sequential data were not available for the patients in the control group who were intubated and ventilated , nor for the NIPPV patients who could not be treated with nasal ventilation . |
| 10 | Templates are not essential for the recipes in this book , but are a useful way of transferring more complicated designs and outlines from paper to icing or cake . |
| 11 | Given what is said of the need for an ordinary background , the condition-set is of course not sufficient for an effect in an ordinary sense , where a sufficient condition is precisely one that necessitates the effect . |
| 12 | Rent was a charge that had to be met first , although midnight ‘ flits ’ to avoid paying rent were common among the very poor and not unknown for the artisan in temporarily reduced circumstances . |
| 13 | Not bad for a graduate in literature and one who normally took evasive action at the sight of a screwdriver . |
| 14 | It was n't right for a man in his position to be kept in the dark . |
| 15 | ‘ The clubs have that much power over players it 's as if they own them , and this is n't good for the game in the North . |
| 16 | In any French town of any size at all we find perhaps three or four rival charcutiers displaying trays of shining olives , black and green , large and small , pickled gherkins , capers , home-made mayonnaise grated carrot salad , shredded celeriac in rémoulade sauce , several sorts of tomato salad , sweet-sour onions , champignons à la Grecque , ox or pig 's muzzle finely sliced and dressed with a vinaigrette sauce and fresh parsley , a salad of mussels , another of cervelas sausage ; several kinds of pork pâté ; sausages for grilling , sausages for boiling , sausages for hors-d'oeuvre , flat sausages called cré pinettes for baking or frying , salt pork to enrich stews and soups and vegetable dishes , pigs ' trotters ready cooked and breadcrumbed , so that all you need to do is to take them home and grill them ; cooked ham , raw ham , a galantine of tongue , cold pork and veal roasts , boned stuffed ducks and chickens So it is n't difficult for the housewife in a hurry to buy a little selection , however modest , of these things from the charcuterie , and plus her own imagination and something she has perhaps already in the larder to serve an appetizing and fresh little mixed hors-d'oeuvre . |