Example sentences of "[not/n't] [be] [vb pp] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was informed today that elderly people who are trying to get into hospital are being put on to wards in which the nursing staff have not been designated specifically for the care of the elderly . |
| 2 | That claim has not been borne out for today 's designs , but such contracts can not easily be broken . |
| 3 | About the year 1737 , were found in St Margaret 's church-yard , Westminster , in a dry gravelly soil , at the depth of about 18 feet , or less , which had not been broken up for above fifty years before , three entire fir coffins ; the two largest clampt together with iron , as boxes sometimes are . |
| 4 | At present about 85% of foreign aid is earmarked by Congress for specific purposes in selected countries : unlucky countries that have not been singled out for earmarked money are vulnerable to savage cuts . |
| 5 | Elderly people have not been singled out for special consideration either , but for quite a different reason : their needs are broadly the same as those of younger adults , and specialist mental health services for elderly people are now developing all over the country as a direct response to the enormous growth in the numbers of people with dementia . |
| 6 | From the survey , it would seem that many bureaux which own the microfilm system find many uses for it within the bureau when it has not been taken out for an outreach advice session ; it is used for training purposes in order to demonstrate access to and use of information in CAB advice work and it is also used for giving talks to outside groups . |
| 7 | Sotheby 's will be hoping that their clients ' wallets have not been laid up for the winter together with their yachts . |
| 8 | Information should not be collected primarily for publication . |
| 9 | The second is that many processes simply can not be shut down for the weekends . |
| 10 | My father had recruited three young gypsies who had not been and could not be called up for the Navy . |
| 11 | The promising possibility of omeprazole enhanced antibiotic treatment for H pylori associated diseases can not be assumed unconditionally for antimicrobial compounds other than amoxicillin . |
| 12 | But the development of a child 's body and mind in the first three years of life is absolutely vital — any stunting of growth in these years can not be made up for in later life . |
| 13 | It also presents the most difficult problem for those who , like myself , are convinced on practical grounds that a sufficient case can not be made out for the restoration of capital punishment . |
| 14 | The selectivity and control of conscious attention remains poorly understood ; very clearly it is not at all coextensive with information processing for much of this is never observed and can not be summoned up for examination . |
| 15 | Standards should not be hidden away for internal use only , but should be clearly displayed at the point of service delivery . |
| 16 | Valuable frequency band should not be reserved exclusively for use by outside broadcast units on the offchance that an incident may occur , however , the European Radiocommunications Office feels . |
| 17 | ‘ The defence does not arise on a plea of autrefois convict , but on the well-established rule at common law , that where a person has been convicted and punished for an offence by a court of competent jurisdiction , transit in rem judicatam , that is , the conviction shall be a bar to all further proceedings for the same offence , and he shall not be punished again for the same matter ; otherwise there might be two different punishments for the same offence . |
| 18 | But note that a personal pension plan can not be surrendered early for cash . |
| 19 | The boys queued in sets of five outside the headmaster 's room , each clutching his signed slip and praying he would not be singled out for special treatment . |
| 20 | Your supply will not be cut off for at least fourteen days ( 21 in the case of gas ) to give the council time to help . |
| 21 | The young will not be pampered so for much longer but meanwhile , for the bird watcher , it is an entertaining time . |
| 22 | Because of the heavy clay content of the material , it was considered that it could not be compacted enough for the development . |
| 23 | It does not assume any proof demonstrating its validity , and therefore it can not be knocked down for not offering it . |
| 24 | The weapon does not fire and can not be used again for the rest of the game . |
| 25 | This was possible because the topmost floor of the two-and-a-half storey building is entirely in the roof space , obtains all its daylight from a new roof-light and therefore can not be used easily for habitable accommodation . |
| 26 | For example , Goody and others have argued that the labelling of pre-colonial West African states as ‘ feudal ’ has obscured the all-important fact that the control of the ruling class did not operate through the control of land , and that therefore Marx 's ideas can not be used directly for these societies . |
| 27 | The Library used a database written by Dr Cullen for cataloguing purposes , but because of software limitations , the system could not be used efficiently for enquiries , and it was unsuitable for processing subscriptions , loans and book orders . |
| 28 | CL can not be used alone for other than general interpretations of cement histories . |
| 29 | The government is predicting real GNP growth of 7% this year , and Mr Choi will not be blamed even for such a ‘ disappointing ’ figure . |
| 30 | He added : ‘ Although parents can not be blamed totally for the way children end up , we are able to shape their behaviour and offer them moral guidance . |