Example sentences of "was not [adj] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By his order dated 14 July 1992 the judge granted a declaration that it was not unlawful for the first or third defendants to administer a blood transfusion to T. if they considered that it was in her best interests to do so . |
| 2 | This was not feasible for the current project , hence these tags were replaced by more general tags . |
| 3 | It was not easy for a spirited young woman like Peggy to be the wife of a country vicar . |
| 4 | Until a generation ago it was not uncommon for a successful parish church organist to be appointed to a cathedral post . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was not possible for the NFER project team to study in any detail the role of investigative work in a graduated test scheme , partly because few schools associated with the project had gone very far towards introducing it into their curricula . |
| 8 | That , Attlee insisted , was a matter for Parliament to decide and was not suitable for a Royal Commission . |
| 9 | Opinion in Washington had slowly been moving , during the previous three months , to the conclusion that it was not essential for the Soviet Union to participate in the final stages of the Pacific conflict . |
| 10 | She said yesterday that it was not profitable for the new trust members to speculate on why the Scottish Office had not appointed a member of the medical school . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The primary purpose was to reduce the costly time spent on oral argument in so far as that was not necessary for the proper determination fo the appeal . |
| 13 | This came to an end during the Seven Years War ; and although it was refounded in 1775 it seems to have been designed merely to produce men capable of filling such relatively minor posts as those at Warsaw and The Hague , where it was not necessary for the Prussian representative to be of high social rank . |
| 14 | Nature , however , was not responsible for the hard line of his mouth , nor the bleakness of his expression . |
| 15 | The mean time taken to achieve a normal cry , although shorter in the artemether group , was not significantly so , and the difference was not responsible for the significant difference in coma resolution times . |
| 16 | It was not seemly for the Second Son to outshine the father in this way and I knew instinctively that before a year had passed there would be more building in the compound . |
| 17 | It was not bad for a first try from a scratch team , ’ added Chris . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It was not unusual for a single employer to have to negotiate with five or more of the more than 300 trade unions . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It was not hard for the British , whose influence remained powerful in Teheran , and who had a spy in Mossadeq 's own Council of Ministers , to portray him as a madman to lead Iran into the Soviet camp . |
| 23 | the authority was not liable for the sexual abuse which was committed on the boys . |
| 24 | But I was not ready for the sheer , throat-tightening beauty of virtually the entirety of this CD , which contains all eleven of Jenkins 's six-part Fantasias ( a twelfth may be spurious , and was omitted from this recording ) as well as the other works for six-part viol consort , the two Pavans and two In Nomines . |
| 25 | Naturally , some knowledge of the vein ahead would be invaluable and it was not unknown for a tiny probing tunnel to be driven ahead of a working face just before a new bargain was to be made . |
| 26 | It was not unknown for an unexploded portion of an old charge to remain dormant but active for years under such conditions . |
| 27 | " I was n't sure for the right colour ; I think in the end , white is safest . " |
| 28 | Maybe I should n't have , but I felt it was n't good for a little one to be in the same house . |
| 29 | Life was n't easy for the first Italian immigrants . |
| 30 | She had a foal with us during the dreadful winter of 1947 , and her behaviour became even worse , so much so that our good neighbour Mr Britton said she was n't fit for a young woman like me to work with and insisted I borrow his horse Bobby , a very even-tempered animal . |