Example sentences of "be [not/n't] [vb pp] for this " in BNC.
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| 1 | The values of dissociation constants given in Table I are not corrected for this measured activity of the enzymes . |
| 2 | But Wittgenstein has been seen to argue convincingly that naming is a subsidiary use of language and that many substantives are not used for this purpose ( the psychological participles like ‘ thinking ’ being the obvious example ) and , furthermore , that naming itself is not a sort of primal act of speech acquisition but a clutch of language-games that need to be mastered like any others . |
| 3 | Because they are not paid for this service , there may be a socially less-than-optimal amount of bee-keeping . |
| 4 | Juliet , I 'm afraid you 're not prepared for this search at all , you do n't know what you 've got into , and I think you ought to call it off right now . |
| 5 | Furthermore , they were not prepared for this by socialisation at school and at home . |
| 6 | The child 's arousal classification was noted for each 12th minute value of UOS pressure and a mean value obtained for arousal states A and B. Although arousal states C to E were noted their data were not analysed for this study . |
| 7 | William had come to the throne two years earlier , in 1688 , after the Glorious Revolution against the Catholic James II ; but although the Treatises do contain material which could be seen as after-the-fact justifications of the Revolution , they were not written for this reason . |
| 8 | Second only to the Royal Saloons of this time were the 57ft saloons de luxe , built for the accommodation of the Royal suite , when the King and Queen were travelling ; when they were not required for this purpose they could be hired . |
| 9 | You were not chosen for this trip just to see an old flame , were you ? ’ |
| 10 | To this day , we do not know why élite internal security units of the KBW were not used for this purpose , as they were in 1956 . |
| 11 | Delegates from Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth told a meeting in Manchester hosted by a group of ‘ nuclear free ’ local authorities that they would be pressing the Government to ensure the money is not diverted for this purpose . |
| 12 | Similarly , if debts due to the company are subject to a floating charge , the interest of the floating charge holder will be subject to any lien or set off that the company creates with respect to the charged assets prior to crystallisation , for a floating charge is not regarded for this purpose as an immediate assignment of the chose in action , it becomes such only on crystallisation . |
| 13 | The argument is in some ways quite an attractive one , but since it leads to a rather complex and abstract phonemic analysis it is not adopted for this course . |
| 14 | I was not made for this , my Lord , my shepherd . |
| 15 | Sir Denys , a 58-year-old Scot and a lawyer by training , took over from Sir John Harvey-Jones in 1987 ( who is now chairman of The Economist but was not consulted for this article ) . |
| 16 | The Bull & Gate surely was n't built for this sort of punishment . |