Example sentences of "not [adv] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The terms ‘ Royal ’ and ‘ King ’ are perhaps not altogether appropriate for what would have been no more than tribal chieftains . |
| 2 | But this is not altogether relevant for although Cordelia is essentially a fine character and her sisters mainly corrupt , there are the opposites ‘ good ’ and ‘ evil ’ in both of them . |
| 3 | Even his charge of boring repetition is difficult to substantiate objectively : boredom is in the mind of the beholder and you doubtless could find many people who have enjoyed A la Recherche du Temps Perdu , a work not altogether renowned for its brevity or conciseness . |
| 4 | Kathleen Kenyon 's notable effort was not wholly successful for two reasons : firstly , it was not appreciated at the time that there was only one major construction phase and not two ; secondly , the knowledge of pottery dating was then inadequate . |
| 5 | It was not wholly unreasonable for the protesters to view this as " imprisonment " without trial . |
| 6 | A levels , then , though relied upon at present as a higher education aptitude test , and regarded by many schools and many parents as a test of the academic respectability of schools themselves , are not wholly satisfactory for either of these purposes . |
| 7 | However elaborate ( indeed , contrived ) this theorizing may be , it is still not wholly adequate for the task in hand . |
| 8 | I think this is not wholly responsible for a certain effect of fussiness in the drapery and slackness of form compared to the contemporary marble metopes of Olympia ( figs. 121–3 ) . |
| 9 | She was more angry than shocked , particularly when Old Red suggested it was not wholly wise for ladies not in their first youth to climb ladders . |
| 10 | Examination of the courses they attended suggested that these were not uniformly suitable for wives and that more courses aimed at helping wives to substitute for husbands in an emergency would be useful . |
| 11 | If a lunatic attacks me , I am surely entitled to defend myself , even though he is not criminally responsible for his conduct . |
| 12 | However , the most significant objection to the Act is that it has extended the scope of the common law exemption so that husbands are not criminally liable for acts of buggery or indecent assault perpetrated against their wives , save in the exceptional circumstances mentioned above . |
| 13 | so I , I mean I suppose in a sense it would be good if you did actually change something but that 's not entirely necessary for me . |
| 14 | The final chapter is not entirely appropriate for a graduating RGN , as it gives advice to the graduating Canadian student nurse on job seeking , leadership and professional development . |
| 15 | No existing test was found which precisely suited the team 's purposes , so one which , though useful , was not entirely suitable for dementia sufferers living at home , was adapted . |
| 16 | Notes We regret that the tour is not entirely suitable for people in wheelchairs . |
| 17 | It is likely that most small towns contained a tannery since the processes and equipment needed for the production of leather were not entirely suitable for domestic use , apart from the exceedingly unpleasant smell generated . |
| 18 | The manuscript , however , was not entirely ready for publication , " and during the next few weeks Nietzsche submitted it to a final revision . |
| 19 | As the literature available was not entirely adequate for the new acceptance of the significance of human activity , the deficiency was remedied first by a series of collected readings ( Coates , 1972 , 1973 ) and Coates ( 1973 , p. 3 ) noted : |
| 20 | While this is a step in the right direction , it is not entirely satisfactory for some . |
| 21 | Therefore , although the RPI is a widely followed and widely understood index , it is not entirely satisfactory for the indexation of pensions . |
| 22 | For instance , one problem not entirely trivial for women pursuing careers , is their exclusion from male gatherings in bars , which are important channels for passing on information . |
| 23 | These terms , especially polysemous and polysemy , although innocuous if used circumspectly , are not entirely ideal for our purposes , because they carry with them a view of lexical meaning in which there is a tendency to regard the lexeme as the primary semantic unit , and the different lexical units as ‘ merely variants ’ . |
| 24 | However the two proteins are not entirely interchangeable for autoregulation as Vmw175 can substitute for 140k in the downregulation of the VZV gene 62 promoter in transient transfection assays whereas the 140k protein does not repress the HSV-1 IE-3 promoter in the reciprocal experiment ( 17 ) . |
| 25 | Academic study of drama as such is not necessarily useful for the actor , but an awareness of playwrights and their various styles is of practical value . |
| 26 | While J.P.s received a small allowance for attending sessions , they were , like other local commissioners , largely unpaid though not necessarily unrewarded for their services . |
| 27 | Morphemic complexity and syllabic complexity are in gross terms reasonably equivalent ; but they are not necessarily equivalent for individual words ; for example , six-th-s contains three morphemes , but only one syllable ; establish , on the other hand , contains only one morpheme , but three syllables. ( ii ) An idiom may be roughly defined as a sequence of two or more words , the meaning of which is not predictable from the meanings of the constituent words ; eg get by , as it were , under the weather . |
| 28 | Few communities adopted it in toto , but it provided a useful source of material , even if those responsible for it fell into the common trap of producing texts which were not necessarily Appropriate for musical setting . |
| 29 | A south facing conservatory often receives so much sun and heat in the summer that it is not necessarily suitable for daytime entertaining , unless adequately ventilated and fitted with blinds . |
| 30 | The cruel lesson is that home ownership is not necessarily suitable for everyone and should , in any case , always be something which you have to work towards . |