Example sentences of "that it is [not/n't] [adj] for " in BNC.

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1 But besides that wholly justifiable disqualification , two others are sometimes advanced : first , that the form is only suitable for small businesses ; and secondly , that it is not suitable for capital intensive businesses .
2 Somewhat later , Mary Whateley , following Pope 's style very closely , suggests that it is not necessary for women to respond in kind to misogynistic satire :
3 For one thing , the 1988 Act specifically states that it is not necessary for every act of collective worship to be of a broadly Christian character providing that most of such acts are .
4 Another important point to note is that it is not necessary for the prosecution to prove that the defendant actually made use of the information at the time of the trades in question .
5 The principal importance of the decision , however , lies in the support that it affords to the proposition that it is not necessary for the duty of the policeman to be found in a specific rule of the common law or statute .
6 It is a pity that it is not consistent for all remedies .
7 Rejecting the conception of the ‘ immanent tendencies of capital ’ , mediated by market forces , imposing a unitary subordination of labour , these writers are also led to the conclusion that it is not futile for workers to contest hierarchical and oppressive managerial structures .
8 They feel that it is not appropriate for their naughty child to receive special treatment or they feel that they should not reward the child for doing something that other children do naturally .
9 I have been in the House long enough to know that it is not appropriate for me to comment on evidence given to a Select Committee until that Committee has reported .
10 It er , first of all I can confirm that an announcement is being made today er secondly secondly secondly I can confirm that it is not usual for such announcements to be made by way of oral statement .
11 Will he give at least gentle guidance to LEAs suggesting that it is not reasonable for students to be excluded from discretionary grants merely because their parents have moved home ?
12 In any event , the Act makes it clear that it is not unlawful for a teacher to inflict corporal punishment ( as defined in the Act ) where it is necessary ‘ for reasons that include averting an immediate danger of personal injury to , or an immediate danger to the property of , any person ( including the pupil concerned ) ’ .
13 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 .
14 So enticing is the red gape of a cuckoo nestling that it is not uncommon for ornithologists to see a bird dropping food into the mouth of a baby cuckoo sitting in some other bird 's nest !
15 There are other treats in store for the employer who ‘ streamlines ’ production and uses outworkers apart from the fact that it is not uncommon for them to supply their own machinery , they also carry all the overheads of power , lighting , and heating , and the maintenance and cleaning of premises .
16 Often the manufacturing procedures employed in this range of products are so wide and specialized that it is not economic for the company to provide them all internally .
17 In the tradition of Advaita or non-Dualism he refers to the soul , ( Ātman ) , and God , ( Brahman ) , as knowers rather than objects of knowledge and claims that it is not possible for mortal beings by the use of reason alone to know the knower of knowing .
18 Due to the restrictions imposed by the airlines and the railways , we regret that it is not possible for passengers to take their own bikes .
19 The huge quantity of works which are the responsibility of the Soprintendenza means that it is not possible for all restoration campaigns to be carried out by in-house staff .
20 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 .
21 ‘ it seems to me that it is not possible for a person in the position of the bank to exclude the discretion of the court , but one nevertheless starts from the position that the contractual position between the parties is that the costs will be paid on an indemnity basis .
22 Our ordinary sense of language suggests that it is not possible for a person to use words or conduct ‘ towards another person ’ if he is unaware of that person 's existence .
23 Bearing in mind the figures and the fact that French farmers regularly burn lorry loads of English lamb and Italian grapes with complete impunity and that it is not possible for an English lorry firm to go to Germany and to load up with goods to bring back to the United Kingdom , should not the European Community try to walk before it tries to run ?
24 I am aware that it is not possible for me to call every Scottish Member at Scottish Question Time , but I thought that it was fair today — I hope that the House will agree — to get as far down the Order Paper as I possibily could .
25 The variety of comment illustrates that it is not possible for outsiders to specify criteria of competent practice without indulging in prescriptive evaluation .
26 I am also often told that it is not good for a curate 's career to stay in the same area or parish !
27 They complain that it is not fair for the tax office to be quibbling after they have spent all their profits on buying new stock whose value has declined to half or even less .
28 ‘ On the question of whether the material which has been made available is sufficient to justify the initiation of a prosecution against Patrick Ryan he ( Mr Barnes ) has come to the clear conclusion that it is not sufficient for that purpose and that a prosecution would not be justified , ’ the statement said .
29 As to accountability ; this implies that it is not sufficient for a government to justify its existence because at some time in the past it was representative of popular opinion ; for the two may have diverged since then .
30 Criminal statistics are notoriously unreliable as measures of the actual extent of criminal activity , to such a degree that it is not unknown for historians to discount them altogether .
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