Example sentences of "not [adj] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is not pleasant for a human being to pass judgment on another and say that he is evil through and through without any redeeming features , but that is the conclusion I am forced to come to about you . ’ |
| 2 | At present it is not possible for a foreign band to buy its airline tickets from Aeroflot with its rouble earnings , but only in hard currency . |
| 3 | However , the construction of a fixed index-replicating portfolio is not possible for a geometric index . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's not right for a married woman to have a man in the house and he not her husband , ’ he says . |
| 5 | It 's not right for a young girl . |
| 6 | It is not usual for A level students to use footnotes , but it is sensible to know why and how they are used . |
| 7 | It was not impossible for a poor gentleman to rise in the army , even without political connections , but for those lacking the interest of a great man promotion depended upon opportunities to demonstrate outstanding gallantry and leadership qualities . |
| 8 | ‘ But when a team is doing badly like we are , it 's not easy for a new player to settle in . |
| 9 | That was my job so therefore my hands had to be constantly clean and that 's not easy for a seventeen year old to keep his hands clean all the time but I had to . |
| 10 | ‘ Not easy for a middle-aged broad like me , ’ she joked to herself . |
| 11 | It was not easy for a spirited young woman like Peggy to be the wife of a country vicar . |
| 12 | There is not substitute for a well-balanced calorie-reduced diet . |
| 13 | It 's not natural for a young man to be frowsting away indoors , in a fine crisp day like this ! |
| 14 | It is not unusual for a private company to have rigorous controls governing sale of shares , and this is so in Faber 's case , where the shareholdings break down evenly among employees , T S Eliot 's widow Valerie and the Faber family . |
| 15 | There is a large overlap between trade marks and passing-off and it is not unusual for a legal action to involve both passing-off and trade marks . |
| 16 | It is not unusual for a new Member to be welcomed , despite the fact that he may not yet have contributed to our proceedings . |
| 17 | Her Yorkshire childhood sounds unremarkable — lacking in affection perhaps , but it was not unusual for a young girl of a certain class and a certain generation to be brought up by a nanny rather than a mummy ; to be sent away when she was ‘ five years old and a day ’ ; to be schooled in a certain stiff-upper-lip mentality ; to show no emotion . |
| 18 | The problem of interpretation is compounded in considering MPs occupation and interests ; it was not unusual for a young man from a landed family to be called to the Bar ( but not to practice ) , to serve in the armed forces ( but not to become a professional soldier ) , and then to settle down to a political career with several directorships . |
| 19 | Up to 100 eggs per spawning act are produced and 500–600 is not unusual for a complete spawning phase . |
| 20 | It was not unusual for a direct appeal to be made in a memorial text to casual passers-by , or for visually impressive and even amusing monuments to command attention from the side of a road . |
| 21 | It was not unusual for a single employer to have to negotiate with five or more of the more than 300 trade unions . |
| 22 | To give one example of the size of the documentation problem it is not unusual for a large process plant to have two or three hundred volumes of instructions . |
| 23 | It is not unusual for a corporate business to make political contributions ’ . |
| 24 | Consequently , it is not unusual for a local authority to confer a fire resistance capacity of half an hour on an unprotected cast-iron structure . |
| 25 | It contains matter not fit for a delicate young lady such as yourself . ’ |
| 26 | Until a generation ago it was not uncommon for a successful parish church organist to be appointed to a cathedral post . |
| 27 | The abuse of Artemesia has continued till today because as recently as 1977 many of her paintings including Suzannah and the Elders had been attributed to her father ( a painter who was a close friend of Caravaggio since it was not uncommon for a male member of the family or tutor to take credit for any talent shown by a woman under their ’ guidance ’ . |
| 28 | Such a lifespan is not uncommon for a captive tortoise , the oldest one recorded being a male , which lived on Mauritius for 152 years . |
| 29 | Well I do n't know , I think he 's covered up he 's not good for a long time , I did n't know he was that bad . |
| 30 | Not safe for a respectable woman to walk the streets . ’ |