Example sentences of "[was/were] not [adj] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because these videos were not available for two subjects the recall data is reported for 28 subjects only . |
| 2 | Gross photographs of specimens were not examined , as they were not available for all cases . |
| 3 | The results of the simultaneous state and local elections in the neighbouring state of Hidalgo were not due for official release until Dec. 2 , but preliminary results indicated that the PRI had won 81 out of the 84 municipalities . |
| 4 | The students were not due for another month , though the streets and cloisters were crowded with tourists , who were outnumbered only by their cameras . |
| 5 | As we were not due for another lesson till the next day I was n't carrying them with me . |
| 6 | Those who had come by train had the same problem as the trains for the return journey were not due for several hours . |
| 7 | Should a warning have been included that they were not suitable for indoor use ? |
| 8 | Einstein produced his general theory of relativity during the First World War , when conditions were not suitable for scientific observations , but immediately after the war a British expedition observed the eclipse of 1919 and confirmed the predictions of general relativity : Space-time is not flat , but is curved by the matter and energy in it . |
| 9 | However they were not indispensable for that purpose . |
| 10 | They were not eligible for free hospital treatment for any other purpose — an evasion of the problem that fifteen million insured people , if actually treated for all their needs , would have overwhelmed the hotch-potch of voluntary and Poor Law hospitals . |
| 11 | Governments were not responsible for this expansion of credit in the sense of running larger deficits and printing money to finance them . |
| 12 | People wanted to be rid of neo-Stalinist regimes , they argued , but were not eager for cut-throat capitalism . |
| 13 | He suggested that accountants were not liable for casual remarks in the course of conversation , statements made by accountants outside their work or for statements not made in their capacity as accountants . |
| 14 | Some grandmothers were not enthusiastic for this role . |
| 15 | They were n't good for each other . ’ |
| 16 | You were n't right for each other ! |
| 17 | They were n't right for each other and maybe a marriage would last a shorter time than a more informal , less intense liaison ; brief and bitter , both of them on proximity fuses with things coming rapidly to a crunch , rather than something more drawn out , where they might spend long periods apart and so forget how much they hated being together , and enjoy the fleeting , passionate moments of reunion … |
| 18 | Moreover , the workings of the partly suspended sentence were complex and difficult to explain to those who had been convicted ; the sentence was not available for young offenders under the age of twenty-one ; and there were confusing anomalies with parole entitlement . |
| 19 | Valid assessment of lung function was not available for 418 children . |
| 20 | Indeed , it was not uncommon for Irish abbots actually to have bishops under their jurisdiction . |
| 21 | It was not uncommon for one man to hold land in several different tenures and to combine the roles of tenant and landlord . |
| 22 | Their marriage was certainly not typical , yet it is possible that even in the early twentieth century it was not uncommon for retired men to take on more responsibility at home , as many do today : for lack of other evidence , we can only speculate . |
| 23 | French Aubusson and Savonnerie carpets of the 17th and 18th centuries , for example , followed the Baroque and Rococo elegance of the time with their bright colours and floral opulence , and it was not uncommon for 18th-century carpets to echo the ceiling designs of the rooms for which they were made . |
| 24 | It was not uncommon for stolen animals to be transported along paths and roads for as far as fifty kilometres . |
| 25 | It was not uncommon for foreign representatives in Sweden to be given a quantity of copper , the only Swedish product for which there was a ready international market , which they could sell on their return home . |
| 26 | It was not uncommon for German children to be taught in Polish , and there was a principle in Pomerania of bilingual education . |
| 27 | It was not uncommon for these missioners to refer to their deaf clients as ‘ our poor deaf brethren ’ . |
| 28 | The main reason for the first three failures to carry the Bill through Parliament was that the then Secretary of State for Education , George Kekewich , objected to the clauses in the Bill whereby it was not compulsory for local authorities to make any provision for the education of deaf children in their area . |
| 29 | Perhaps because I knew from an early age that he was not long for this world , I tried to make his time in it as pleasant as possible , and thus ended up treating him far better than most young boys treat their younger brothers . |
| 30 | [ The Board went on to hold that the contract was not voidable for economic duress — see below , pp. 237 , 64 ( 652 and Atiyah ( 1982 ) 98 L.Q.R. 197 and ( 1983 ) 99 L.Q.R. 353 and Tiplady ( 1983 ) 99 L.Q.R. 188 . ] |