Example sentences of "[pron] be not [vb pp] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The press officers who compose them are n't employed for their outstanding literary flair and their missives routinely come replete with weak jokes and dismal puns . |
| 2 | I are n't bothered for them . |
| 3 | ‘ I am not prepared for us to be a satellite of Middlesbrough and it appears the majority of Radio One programmes will be coming from Middlesbrough , ’ he said . |
| 4 | I 'm not fussed for myself , but Pauline 's younger and she 's been used to town life , see what I mean ? ’ |
| 5 | I was n't prepared for what had happened to her in the year since I had last seen her . |
| 6 | I was n't prepared for it . ’ |
| 7 | I was n't prepared for it . |
| 8 | I was n't prepared for it . |
| 9 | When they are quite innocent of certain events they are unfortunately blamed by the public in those areas , and they are seen as damaging the countryside and they are seen also they do not encourage the matter when you envisage the fact that they have these erm , for instance , animals — the dogs around their sites which are not noted for their behaviour , and there are many aspects of their behaviour which upset people around . |
| 10 | But this would be to simplify things for , as I have argued , black kids generally come from the kind of family backgrounds which are not suited for their own educational needs — for reasons which I spelled out in the last chapter , but will summarize as ‘ neglect ’ or ‘ unattainable goals ’ . |
| 11 | The old age of some industrial plants , many of which were not designed for their present use . |
| 12 | The Democratic Unionist Party is in the curious position of being dominated by evangelicals and hence being more favourable to temperance and sabbatarianism than the Official Unionists and at the same time being better supported than the Officials by working-class loyalists who are not known for their piety and who are prepared to support acts of criminal violence . |
| 13 | In particular , do not start with the historical background if you are not asked for it , unless you have some special reason for doing this — and if so , state the reason . |
| 14 | If we are wrong , I 'll make sure that you 're not blamed for it . ’ |
| 15 | Such bluntness , such honesty , it was embarrassing ; you were n't prepared for it , so you did n't know how to react . |
| 16 | Now when you read through it , she 's not covered for anything . |
| 17 | ‘ But darling , she 's only just eighteen , ’ Nora said to Louise , ‘ and she 's not trained for anything . |
| 18 | ‘ But when Jim , who 's not noted for his sense of humour , suddenly went all angry and superior it came as a bit of a shock for her . ’ |
| 19 | Apart from that , I do not think that I learned a great deal from Conservative Members ' contributions to the debate — except , perhaps , that the hon. Member for Chelmsford ( Mr. Burns ) , who is not noted for his breadth of vision , does not like Labour councillors , which did not seem to me to advance the argument very much . |
| 20 | When she was n't required for her scene in the court room of Alexandria she was fetching and carrying and dabbing calamine lotion on the shoulders of John Harbour who , earlier in the day , had been broiled pink as a lobster by inexpertly using a sun-lamp . |
| 21 | We are not prepared for it , whereas our competitors are . |
| 22 | I suspect that the mulberry sauce — we are not told for what manner of meat it was intended — may have originated somewhere in Asia Minor and was perhaps brought to Italy after the Venetian conquest of Constantinople in 1204 A.D. It could equally have come via Persia or Afghanistan where , as in Turkey , the berries of the white or silk mulberry are dried to provide a supply for the winter . |
| 23 | We 're not known for our pace . |
| 24 | It is difficult to imagine a rabbit plodding steadily on : they are not built for it . |
| 25 | That way , they query nothing and never answer back ; as a result they are not known for their political judgement , but , during the Depression they were jolted into social awareness . |
| 26 | Parents have to be aware that not absolutely every accident is preventable and if they 're not prepared for their children to run that element of risk then obviously they have the choice of not letting their children go . ’ |
| 27 | In the chapter on Smolensk guberniia it was noted how peasants were bludgeoned into hauling wood to engine fuel-dumps , although they were not paid for it . |
| 28 | A thought er went , slipped by me er we must upon this council thank the committee staff that controlled the multitude outside , er they were n't trained for it but can the er thanks of this council for their endeavours in keeping the situation calm be recorded . |
| 29 | Erm so the Communist Party , to try to counter this sort of erm advance of the rich peasant economy which they saw was getting a bit too far , tried to encourage the formation of mutual aid teams erm but they were very , there were problems in that in erm the implementation of this because peasants were unwilling to share their tools , they were n't compensated for it . |
| 30 | So as you said the danger is that it 's not balanced for our delegates and the ideal is that we want the combination of all four . |