Example sentences of "[is] [not/n't] [verb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Generally speaking , the amount of sleep lost is not made up for entirely on the recovery nights . |
| 2 | Both cars are supported in proper metal slings , and while a safety gear is provided under each , this is not connected up for operation owing to the small size of the model . |
| 3 | As I said in an earlier chapter , the principle of speaking is not to go on for more than a few minutes without getting your audience to do something — applaud or laugh or raise their hands . |
| 4 | The opening fourteen chapters of Scale 1 provide a context of definitions for Hilton 's particular address to a recluse asking advice on the contemplative life which , in the first chapter , he acknowledges to be a demanding process : Although in defining active and contemplative life Hilton makes it clear that contemplative life belongs especially he , characteristically , makes it clear that it is not ruled out for actives . |
| 5 | But real life , both human life and plant and animal life , is not set up for the benefit of spectators . |
| 6 | Boro boss Lawrence , meanwhile , is not lined up for a summer move to Spurs despite rumours sweeping the NorthEast . |
| 7 | Yeah , he 's not pulling in for me , he 's pulling in for himself I think actually . |
| 8 | it 's not cutting out for the for the thingy |
| 9 | It is a sick government that is proud of the fact that it 's not signed up for a Social Chapter . |
| 10 | He 's not going in for any pretending over a baby unless he comes in for a share of the cash , bloody ridiculous it is . |
| 11 | No , he 's not washing up for you . |
| 12 | Apart from the fact that I 've never known her dig up a weed or pick a single daffodil , she simply is n't cut out for that kind of work . ’ |
| 13 | Novell Inc Japan , which will be Univel Inc 's distributor there , is n't waiting around for the Japanese version of UnixWare to start its assault on the market . |
| 14 | It is n't working out for me , I 've been told I 've got ta increase my payments to a hundred and one pounds fifty two a week for my two children from my previous marriage , and I 've been told by Social Security that the hundred and one pound fifty two a week will take my ex-wife and her husband off income support , so I will be keeping her family and their child . |