Example sentences of "was not [adj] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Valid assessment of lung function was not available for 418 children . |
| 3 | Indeed , it was not uncommon for Irish abbots actually to have bishops under their jurisdiction . |
| 4 | It was not uncommon for one man to hold land in several different tenures and to combine the roles of tenant and landlord . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was not uncommon for stolen animals to be transported along paths and roads for as far as fifty kilometres . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was not uncommon for German children to be taught in Polish , and there was a principle in Pomerania of bilingual education . |
| 10 | It was not uncommon for these missioners to refer to their deaf clients as ‘ our poor deaf brethren ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | [ 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 . ] |
| 14 | This meant that , even with daily case conferences , it was not possible for one nurse either to supervise or take responsibility for the individualised care of each client . |
| 15 | An original toilet did exist at Stanley Racing which was not suitable for disabled people . |
| 16 | It looked as though the donnish youth would go straight back to donnery and be a don for the rest of his life ; perhaps he was not suitable for other kinds of clergyman . |
| 17 | Then again , another election was not due for some time , the FDP remained loyal to the coalition and Brandt 's international reputation stood high . |
| 18 | Although this could be seen as evidence that subjective risk was not present for this subject , it could equally be regarded as a self presentational bias on the part of the subject who may have felt that feeling risk would imply dangerous driving . |
| 19 | With 29 metres between east and west window elevations , the building was not ideal for open-plan studios . |
| 20 | The offences are subject to defences that may be summarised as being ‘ no-negligence ’ defences , that is , that the organiser was not responsible for any default that may have occurred in the conduct of the meeting or procession . |
| 21 | He was not ambitious for British rank . |
| 22 | It was not unusual for young ladies to do nothing at all ; unless they occupied themselves with Berlin woolwork or the making of shell boxes , there was practically nothing genteel to do . |
| 23 | In the case of orthography it is only in comparatively recent times that spelling has been standardised into ‘ correct ’ forms , it being , in former centuries , very much at the whim of the writer as to how a word was spelt , and it was not unusual for several styles — ‘ king ’ , ‘ kyng ’ , ‘ kynge ’ are examples — to be used in the same document , or even sentence . |
| 24 | The tide went out as fast as it came in , and it was not unusual for large fish to be stranded in one of the various sized lakes left behind in the sand hollows . |
| 25 | After the Reformation it was not unusual for these charnels to be cleared and taken over by prominent local families as their burial vault , as happened at Saffron Walden and Thaxted , both in Essex . |
| 26 | The latter were sometimes answered by editorial comments to the effect that the country was not ready for African self-government . |
| 27 | Poor response was more likely to be associated with a low TmP ; good response with the presence of bone metastases , but the reverse was not true for poor response . |
| 28 | On the particular facts McCardie J found that the house and its contents were not free of tuberculosis bacilli and it was not fit for human habitation . |
| 29 | The Park had closed at 4.30 p.m. the previous day , the detectives learned , yet it was not unknown for nimble adolescents and desperate adults to gain access to the Parks from half-a-dozen possible places . |
| 30 | It was not unknown for one man to chair a dozen committees and even to attend more than thirty committee meetings in one week , though the average load was , of course , much less than these extremes . |