Example sentences of "[am/are] [not/n't] [adv] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course I am not here arguing for a return to a three-tier model of reality seen in literalistic terms . |
| 2 | Applicants are not normally called for interview , but those given offers for our courses are invited to visit the relevant Department or School . |
| 3 | Crew arriving by air to join a yacht are not normally asked for an onward ticket : however , nationals who need visas for Spain should have a letter from the owner of the yacht stating that the crew is joining the yacht at Las Palmas . |
| 4 | VICE-CHANCELLORS are not normally known for their speed of action and this is how it should be : universities are reflective , discursive communities . |
| 5 | Christians today are not normally known for their candour about doubt or for their confident ability to resolve it . |
| 6 | It is for this same reason that training programmes in treatment centres are not normally considered for potential counsellor trainees until they have been in recovery for at least two years and preferably longer . |
| 7 | While at this end of the neck the Grover adjustable machineheads are smooth , and although budget guitars are not exactly known for their tuning stability , this guitar is reassuringly accurate . |
| 8 | However we are not simply waiting for an upturn in the world economy . |
| 9 | There are many , often very large areas , that are publicly owned and of great value to wildlife but these sites are not primarily managed for wildlife , although this is often an important consideration and some suffer considerable disturbance . |
| 10 | ‘ Come now , chéri , my guests will be arriving before long and we are not yet changed for dinner . |
| 11 | We are not just looking for tax disc dodgers , we are looking for insurance offences , or MOT offences and the condition of vehicles . ’ |
| 12 | The effect is even more telling than the BMW , because while anyone with the necessary can buy one of those , these kiddies are not just paid for but born and bred as well . |
| 13 | ‘ If you are not well cared for , it is the fault of the master of your household , ’ she said primly . |
| 14 | Some authorities provide hostels for older children who need some care but not the full care of a family group home , but on the whole the needs of young workers and older school children are not well catered for . |
| 15 | The characteristic that courses for career women , courses reclaiming the curriculum on behalf of women 's history and culture , and courses providing useful knowledge and skills for women reconstituting their traditional roles have in common is the recognition that some women at least have expectations , aspirations and preoccupations which are not well catered for in the mainstream provision of adult education . |
| 16 | People who refuse to care for themselves , people who are a danger to themselves or others , and people who have no insight into the fact that they are seriously ill are not well catered for by a system which is focused on needs-led services where the consumer 's view is taken seriously in assessment and in provision . |
| 17 | You may think that there were quite a lot of us , but illegal hare coursers are not well known for verbal or physical reticence . |
| 18 | Regrettably , most overseas hotels are not well equipped for disabled holidaymakers . |
| 19 | Politicians are not wholly to blame for failing to know the British . |
| 20 | The Prime Minister is right — the Government are not wholly to blame for this recession , but they are chiefly to blame . |
| 21 | As we noticed in chapter 3 , vernacular vowel systems such as the Belfast one may display patterns that are not comfortably accounted for by standard or traditional methods . |
| 22 | So far as the tax system is concerned , some groups in society will suffer if tax rates are not fully adjusted for inflation . |
| 23 | The graves around us on a stifling hot morning ( funerals here are not long postponed for obvious reasons ) were decorated with wilting flowers and photographs of deceased mamas and departed children . |
| 24 | Chefs are not usually noted for their even-temper and calmess , however , and Bohringer 's sleepy-eyed nature was at odds with this . |
| 25 | Formal links between sentences , then , are not enough to account for our feeling that a stretch of language is discourse . |
| 26 | Their damage to cereals is mainly in the spring when the young rabbits are most numerous , but they are not often credited for the plus side of their food intake . |
| 27 | These are not merely reading for children but they form part of a shared British culture . |
| 28 | It is that those who are not currently working for money make no contribution to the nation 's gross national product — that they are consumers only , not producers . |
| 29 | Most of the following communities are not actually recorded for the Outer Hebrides in the NVC ( unless explicitly stated ) but might well occur . |
| 30 | Where parents are not actually caring for the child at the time of the application the court must consider whether they would be likely to offer a reasonable standard of care if the child were returned to them . |