Example sentences of "not fit to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | A woman is not fit to be free . |
| 2 | I will own that I have often said and lamented that the library was not fit to be seen … |
| 3 | Susan , in this queer , run-down state , was really not fit to be left alone . |
| 4 | This morning she had been told that she was ill-mannered ; now it seemed she was not fit to be a lady ! |
| 5 | This is a shortening of ‘ not fit to be a patch on ’ ( ie you would n't try to mend an expensive item of clothing with an inferior bit of material ) . |
| 6 | The creature is not fit to be seen until it is properly trained . |
| 7 | Her counsellor had said she was not fit to be at work . |
| 8 | ‘ On the Doctors letting him Blood ’ maintains that the treatment is useless unless his doctor will use his lance ‘ to prick my poetick Vein ’ , yet he is incensed ‘ On the Doctors telling him , that ‘ till he left off making Verses , he was not fit to be discharg 'd ’ . |
| 9 | Mrs Bauwens claimed the story made her out to be a ‘ social leper ’ not fit to be seen with a Government Minister . |
| 10 | ‘ You are not fit to be in this school ! |
| 11 | I suppose you could take me out somewhere nice for dinner , but I 'm not fit to be seen anywhere nice . |
| 12 | He gave Doddie Weir a whack and he 's vilified by the press for three weeks afterwards , some of them suggesting that he was not fit to be a policemen . |
| 13 | On another occasion he publicly told the wife of Britain 's ambassador to France that she was ‘ not fit to be an ambassador 's wife ’ . |
| 14 | A certain number of people here ( there were more than So signatures ) addressed a petition to the Mayor ( I think his name is M.Tardieu ) describing me as a man not fit to be at liberty , or something like that . |
| 15 | Every time she had protested that she could ride alone and was not fit to be near anyone until she 'd had several baths he had laid his hand over her mouth and told her to hush . |
| 16 | Mr Major ought to dismiss Mr Patten who has repeatedly shown he 's not fit to be Secretary of State . |
| 17 | ‘ This is good news for all those living in and around the Donaghadee Road who have had to revert to drinking bottled water , because the water was not fit to be drunk , ’ said Mr Lennon . |
| 18 | They 're not fit to be alive , |
| 19 | I 'll lend you my suitcase , yours is n't fit to be seen … . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ You are n't fit to be allowed out , ’ he growled . |