Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adj] for the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if the accused does not fall within s.2(1) , he may still be not dishonest for the purposes of the Act . |
| 2 | In a prefatory motto for the book he quotes from Freud to the effect that ‘ perhaps we must make up our minds to the idea that altogether it is not possible for the claims of the sexual instincts to be reconciled with the demands of culture . ’ |
| 3 | It is not usual for the advisers of the Crown to draw people out of important work when they have hardly had a chance to do what they have undertaken . |
| 4 | But state and local funds , like those of the charities , were simply not adequate for the provision of relief . |
| 5 | The cost of living in Britain is high and a single student grant is not adequate for the maintenance of a wife or husband . |
| 6 | Now passive requirements on auditors are just not adequate for the detection of fraud . |
| 7 | His basic salary as Naval Officer was only $800 a year which was not high for the importance of his position but compared favourably with the $180 a year he had received as an army Captain 3 years earlier . |
| 8 | The hard currencies of the First World , especially US dollars , Japanese yen , and the major European currencies , can be used freely in international trade , while the soft currencies of the rest of the world 's countries are generally not acceptable for the settlement of international accounts . |
| 9 | Over the Westland affair , she said : ‘ I was sad for him because he minded a lot , but not sad for the rest of us . ’ |
| 10 | Of course , it is not impossible for the mpc to be greater than 1 or even less than 0 , but such values are unlikely . |
| 11 | Firstly , the groups studied were not homogeneous for the location of the disease . |
| 12 | But the proposition that it was not lawful for the Secretary of State to adopt a tariff which differed from that of the judges was in my opinion wrong . |
| 13 | ICL reminds us that it is ‘ not unusual for the company to dual-source components , ’ whilst Sun says that its software will run on any Sparc International SCD-compliant chip . |
| 14 | It was not unusual for the configuration of a deep space vessel to be unbalanced . |
| 15 | A high proportion of diplomats everywhere still began their careers , until well into the second half of the nineteenth century , by serving as unpaid attachés ; and it was not unusual for the head of a mission to ask for a son or a nephew to be assigned to it in this capacity . |
| 16 | It is not unusual for the sea to be at least a mile 's walk from the coastline sand-dunes . |
| 17 | It was not unusual for the orderer of the Boozebuster to specify a long route back to the office to give the victim 's fellow revellers time to get back ahead of him . |
| 18 | These designs may be more closely associated with some weaving groups than others ( e.g. , Ferahan and Mal-e-mir ) , and it is not unusual for the names of the design and the weaving group to be interchanged . |
| 19 | By the early twentieth century , it was not unusual for the library to be a masculine combination of gun room , study and smoking room , and the Dolls ' House library has a cluttered family atmosphere , scattered as it is with periodicals , newspapers , cards and dice . |
| 20 | The product is not of merchantable quality and it is not fit for the purpose for which it was sold . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | There is no such legislation in Britain , but it is not uncommon for the charge to be linked to the retail price index as a form of protection . |
| 23 | It is not uncommon for the allocation of costs to be recalculated . |
| 24 | Bequests of this nature were not uncommon for the maintenance of the light in other churches around Kent , including gifts of land , sheep , cows , corn and wax . |
| 25 | By notice of appeal dated 12 February 1991 Mr. Pierson appealed against that refusal on the grounds , inter alia , that the Divisional Court had erred ( 1 ) in ruling that it was not unlawful for the Secretary of State to increase the tariff recommended by the Lord Chief Justice and the trial judge for the purposes of determining a prisoner 's first parole review date and ( 2 ) in ruling that Mr. Pierson was not entitled to know in advance the factors which the Secretary of State proposed to take into account in fixing the tariff and to make informed representations in the light of that knowledge . |
| 26 | With our modern use of words it is possible to look at God 's statement in Genesis 2:18 — ‘ It is not good for the man to be alone . |
| 27 | Genesis tell us that , ‘ It is not good for the man to be alone , ’ revealing that we belong together . |
| 28 | Even in 1914 there was still widespread agreement with Drouyn de Lhuys , one of the foreign ministers of Napoleon III , that aristocratic diplomats were " very useful if not indispensable for the éclat of our embassies , provided that merit is not altogether absent " . |
| 29 | She was not responsible for the actions of her male relatives . |
| 30 | 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 . |