Example sentences of "not [adj] for [pron] to " in BNC.

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1 Even if we are able to show that it is not possible for there to be people who feel as we do but have no disposition to behave as we do , or vice versa , the behaviourist way of doing this seems too extreme .
2 That world view will determine how she/he will influence the children for it is simply not possible for anyone to be completely objective .
3 It 's not right for you to be here alone . ’
4 During that process the proposals are amended — it is not impossible for them to be amended , although to hear Opposition Members speak one would think that the proposals went straight from Commission draft into law without an intermediate stage .
5 But other women do help a lot , in fact they have such strong relationships with the child that it is not uncommon for them to be called Big Mother or Small Mother .
6 But for people who do suffer head injuries like Mrs Asmoyah , it 's not uncommon for them to suddenly come round a week or even ten days later and be perfectly okay .
7 For the treatment of such water , it is not uncommon for it to be subjected to flocculation with alum or alum-sodium aluminate , followed by pressure filtration , or for a filter aid to be added and the water then passed through a filter with fine clearances , such as a meta-filter .
8 What would happen is that the physiotherapist would actually train the mother to do it , she would show her what exercises need to be done and they have to be done almost constantly , several times a day and whenever there 's a spare moment , so therefore it 's not feasible for it to be done in a hospital is it ?
9 Where vaned cowls are to be replaced , it is not advisable for them to be fixed in place , not only for the sake of authenticity , but also to simplify maintenance .
10 WHEN a man applies to come to the United Kingdom to marry a woman settled here , it is not necessary for him to be able to state specifically whether he intends to settle in this country forever or whether he wishes to marry and return to his own country .
11 The best known example of this is Liversidge v. Anderson in which the majority of the House of Lords found that the phrase ‘ reasonable cause to believe ’ in wartime emergency legislation would be complied with provided that the Secretary of State acted on what he thought to be such a reasonable cause , and that it was not necessary for there to be objective facts to support this .
12 The Court of Appeal held that actual physical possession was not necessary for there to be control .
13 ‘ But it 's not necessary for you to be here if I 'm here , ’ she protested .
14 Mori Bokharas may also be referred to by a number of alternative names ( including Jaldar , Kafkazi — pl. 28 — and Serapi ) , and it is not unknown for them to be marketed under the name of the gul most prominent in their design .
15 Whilst an object within LIFESPAN will always be of a specific class and therefore will follow the associated process model , it is not mandatory for it to be specified to be of a certain subtype .
16 And many women actually did take to their beds when they were menstruating and erm sort of retired from active life and this was n't possible then because so many women had been called up you know and they had had to be in the army or they had to work in factories and it was n't possible for them to be absent .
17 It was n't right for her to be spending all her time with this pansy Jules fellow or her elderly patron .
18 But it is n't good for him to be so alone .
19 ‘ It was n't uncommon for us to be putting out a 16-page issue at the end of the 1960s .
20 And girls were n't employed because it was n't decent for them to be concerned with sex cases .
21 ‘ It is n't convenient for me to be the subject of a whole lot of unpleasant rumours !
22 ‘ It really was n't necessary for me to be here too . ’
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