Example sentences of "not [adj] for a " 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 | Is it not possible for a person to ‘ remember ’ something he never did ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | An application for a warrant of further detention can be made up to 42 hours from the commencement of the detention clock , in a situation where the 36 hour period runs out at a time when it is not possible for a magistrate 's court to sit . |
| 5 | ‘ it seems to me that it is not possible for a person in the position of the bank to exclude the discretion of the court , but one nevertheless starts from the position that the contractual position between the parties is that the costs will be paid on an indemnity basis . |
| 6 | However , the construction of a fixed index-replicating portfolio is not possible for a geometric index . |
| 7 | Our ordinary sense of language suggests that it is not possible for a person to use words or conduct ‘ towards another person ’ if he is unaware of that person 's existence . |
| 8 | With this level of distortion , it is not possible for a rise in the corporate tax to reduce ( w/r ) , and this illustrates how the existence of market imperfections may significantly affect the incidence of taxation . |
| 9 | Because of the Uncertainty Principle , it is not possible for a molecule to have zero vibrational energy ; if it had , we could specify both the positions and the momenta of the atoms precisely . |
| 10 | It is not possible for a lexicon to provide full coverage of language . |
| 11 | But surely it 's not possible for a man to live so long ? ’ |
| 12 | University protocol means it 's not possible for a degree to be collected by proxy , but the attention her nomination brings to her cause is welcomed by her husband who was at the ceremony . |
| 13 | To say that sounds can be switched off , can no longer affect you , is not possible for a musician . |
| 14 | Lord Ackner felt that the route did not cease to be available simply because it was not possible for an unaccompanied child to walk it without danger . |
| 15 | And see whether or not there is basis for an agreement on that because if it is possible to get an agreement on that it is infinitely easier to persuade the government that regulations have to be written which cover all of these issues and cover all of the sectors and that therefore makes it easier to create a situation in which it is not possible for an independent company that wish to ignore the good practice guidelines to simply go ahead and do so . |
| 16 | Each unit represents a wide range of investments , spreading the risk to an extent that 's normally not possible for an individual investor . |
| 17 | Bearing in mind the figures and the fact that French farmers regularly burn lorry loads of English lamb and Italian grapes with complete impunity and that it is not possible for an English lorry firm to go to Germany and to load up with goods to bring back to the United Kingdom , should not the European Community try to walk before it tries to run ? |
| 18 | Apart from the purely oppressive aspect — that these people felt that women must be seen and not heard , that taking part in an industrial struggle was not right for a woman — there was the undeniable fact that in these families money was desperately needed . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's not right for a married woman to have a man in the house and he not her husband , ’ he says . |
| 20 | It 's not right for a young girl . |
| 21 | And it is not right for a family to be separated . ’ |
| 22 | But it is not right for a member of the teaching staff to so present that disciplinary framework that the student is unable to view it from the outside or is discouraged from officering an alternative perspective from another discipline . |
| 23 | As there has recently been a revision of codes , I am bound to say that my right hon. Friend may feel that the time is not right for a review . |
| 24 | Yes , the frustrated mother ca n't be generous and so forth with her child , and on the whole I think the emphasis that people used to put on mothers staying at home was very misguided , because a mother who 's having to sacrifice all her outside interests for the sake of her child is just a frustrated mother , and it 's not good for the also the problem is that you then have fairly energetic women devoting all they have to children , then they over-invest in the child 's own achievements , so in fact you are putting a great psychological burden on the child because it has to grow up fulfilling expectations of an adult , which is not right for a child . |
| 25 | The patient had been removed from her previous general practitioner 's list six months previously and was at the material time on no doctor 's list , and the Crown Court had held that it was not practicable for a doctor who had acquaintance with the patient to make the recommendation . |
| 26 | It is not usual for A level students to use footnotes , but it is sensible to know why and how they are used . |
| 27 | ‘ It is not usual for a king to be left alone in the field at the end of a withdrawal . |
| 28 | My men , whom I had instructed to keep close together and sing from the time they left the camp until they joined me on the forest road , were not due for an hour and a half , and during this time it was more than likely that the tigress would break cover and try to stalk or rush me . |
| 29 | The line she was taking was not proper for a Hearing , he said . |
| 30 | The fact that it is not linear for a glass transition led to the development of the Williams-Landel-Ferry ( WLF ) relation ( 1955 ) . |