Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adj] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were ‘ overqualified and not cost-effective for small cases ’ . |
| 2 | Clearly the combination of malabsorption with small bowel villous atrophy and lymphocytic inflation is not specific for coeliac disease because EATCL may present in similar fashion . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Of course there are times when this is not possible for practical reasons , but the more you are able to stay in tune with your body , the better you will feel . |
| 6 | It is not possible for certain types to screen themselves fully , because the noise prevents this . |
| 7 | In Figure 6.3 the rapid increase of speed with depth in the outer 10 or 20 km is due largely to the increasing compaction of a fragmented medium as the overburden increases : it is not possible for solid rock to give this behaviour . |
| 8 | This is particularly important for letters travelling long distances , as it is not possible for first class letters to make the journey between certain places by the next day unless they are posted early . |
| 9 | With the magazine deadline now passed , a tribute to Tom is not possible for this edition , but one will be included in the Winter 1993 edition published in January |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | For instance in general , it is not possible for most goods to trade present amounts of them for future amounts nor is it possible to make such contracts conditional on some outside events like the weather . |
| 12 | It is not possible for most horse owners to finely tune their horses diets , this is left to the nutritionists and even then this is not absolutely precise , after all we can not regularly analyse every horse owner 's grazing , or feed . |
| 13 | Methodologically , it is not possible for any researcher to get the kids to talk with much sense of ideas since the question ‘ Why ? ’ to the smashing of milk bottles is one that is not possible for the boy to answer outside the context of the whole Saturday evening … |
| 14 | So you get , if you like , a development here er of presidential authority and the perception of the presidency both from the point of view of incumbents and from the point of view of the American people and gradually in the twentieth century you get an increasing focus an increasing focus on the presidency as the engine of government , that it 's the president who makes things happen , it 's the president who fixes things , it 's the president who responds to crises and as the crises become more frequent and the crises become more intense so the focus on the president also expands and the Buchanan view is now no longer tenable , the Buchanan view it 's not possible for any president to play the dignified monarch . |
| 15 | Identification among the members of a crowd , or group , leads to demands for all to be equal ; given the numbers involved , it is not possible for particular individuals to be the favourite , so a reaction-formation grows up , expressed as a group demand for social justice and equality . |
| 16 | Where location filming is not possible for exterior scenes , very often it will fall to the Designer to create realistic backdrops to maintain the illusion of a city or a forest stretching miles away into the distance . |
| 17 | It requires extra-strong , rigid straining posts which are not economic for short lengths . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Although these methods of payment are not usual for normal trade credit transactions they should be considered where sizeable amounts or longer than normal credit terms are involved . |
| 20 | Because we have , for example , Olga Borodina , a young mezzo-soprano , singing Marfa — that 's not usual for this theatre . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ Her Ladyship 's started in labour , though she 's not due for another couple of weeks and there 's no time to get the doctor and nurse from Malton , by the look of things . ’ |
| 23 | The students were not due for another month , though the streets and cloisters were crowded with tourists , who were outnumbered only by their cameras . |
| 24 | As we were not due for another lesson till the next day I was n't carrying them with me . |
| 25 | Those who had come by train had the same problem as the trains for the return journey were not due for several hours . |
| 26 | Then again , another election was not due for some time , the FDP remained loyal to the coalition and Brandt 's international reputation stood high . |
| 27 | It should be noted that , while maiming or wounding are not justifiable for simple recaption of property , yet they may well become justifiable for another reason — self-defence . |
| 28 | If the ego can become an object for libidinal attachments in this way , the simple dichotomy between the ego and the sexual instincts is not adequate for all cases . |
| 29 | so , if you normally work a five day week and lose a day 's work you will not get UB for that day because you are not unemployed for 3 days of the social welfare week . |
| 30 | Fasting One or two days — when you drink plenty of clear fluids , but do not eat — is not harmful for most people . |