Example sentences of "was not [adj] for [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Moreover , the workings of the partly suspended sentence were complex and difficult to explain to those who had been convicted ; the sentence was not available for young offenders under the age of twenty-one ; and there were confusing anomalies with parole entitlement . |
2 | Indeed , it was not uncommon for Irish abbots actually to have bishops under their jurisdiction . |
3 | Their marriage was certainly not typical , yet it is possible that even in the early twentieth century it was not uncommon for retired men to take on more responsibility at home , as many do today : for lack of other evidence , we can only speculate . |
4 | French Aubusson and Savonnerie carpets of the 17th and 18th centuries , for example , followed the Baroque and Rococo elegance of the time with their bright colours and floral opulence , and it was not uncommon for 18th-century carpets to echo the ceiling designs of the rooms for which they were made . |
5 | It was not uncommon for stolen animals to be transported along paths and roads for as far as fifty kilometres . |
6 | It was not uncommon for foreign representatives in Sweden to be given a quantity of copper , the only Swedish product for which there was a ready international market , which they could sell on their return home . |
7 | It was not uncommon for German children to be taught in Polish , and there was a principle in Pomerania of bilingual education . |
8 | The main reason for the first three failures to carry the Bill through Parliament was that the then Secretary of State for Education , George Kekewich , objected to the clauses in the Bill whereby it was not compulsory for local authorities to make any provision for the education of deaf children in their area . |
9 | [ The Board went on to hold that the contract was not voidable for economic duress — see below , pp. 237 , 64 ( 652 and Atiyah ( 1982 ) 98 L.Q.R. 197 and ( 1983 ) 99 L.Q.R. 353 and Tiplady ( 1983 ) 99 L.Q.R. 188 . ] |
10 | An original toilet did exist at Stanley Racing which was not suitable for disabled people . |
11 | It looked as though the donnish youth would go straight back to donnery and be a don for the rest of his life ; perhaps he was not suitable for other kinds of clergyman . |
12 | The recognition that the transnational practices in the culture-ideology sphere were seriously asymmetrical had to be addressed in a way that was not necessary for economic and political TNPs . |
13 | With 29 metres between east and west window elevations , the building was not ideal for open-plan studios . |
14 | He was not ambitious for British rank . |
15 | It was not unusual for young ladies to do nothing at all ; unless they occupied themselves with Berlin woolwork or the making of shell boxes , there was practically nothing genteel to do . |
16 | The tide went out as fast as it came in , and it was not unusual for large fish to be stranded in one of the various sized lakes left behind in the sand hollows . |
17 | The latter were sometimes answered by editorial comments to the effect that the country was not ready for African self-government . |
18 | Poor response was more likely to be associated with a low TmP ; good response with the presence of bone metastases , but the reverse was not true for poor response . |
19 | On the particular facts McCardie J found that the house and its contents were not free of tuberculosis bacilli and it was not fit for human habitation . |
20 | The Park had closed at 4.30 p.m. the previous day , the detectives learned , yet it was not unknown for nimble adolescents and desperate adults to gain access to the Parks from half-a-dozen possible places . |
21 | In the barony of Lewes it was not unknown for heritable copyholds to be entailed , to such an extent indeed that even though the common law harboured reservations as to its legality , the judges ‘ haue bene sparinge to deliuer their opinions because it concerned very many of the kinges subjectes ’ . |
22 | I was quick to snap her up before you changed your mind she was n't right for national accounts at that time she 'd been good in the groups role |
23 | That was n't bad for early in the morning ? |
24 | ( It was n't unknown for Hurt to go on four-day benders . ) |
25 | It was n't unusual for human flesh to be the bait in an industry where million-pound budgets were on offer . |