Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] [verb] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He has not asked for any help from us . |
| 2 | That seems likely to be primarily down to Germany because the UK was flat on its back a year ago and Italy has not bubbled for some time , while the French recession is only now gathering pace . |
| 3 | That seems likely to be primarily down to Germany because the UK was flat on its back a year ago and Italy has not bubbled for some time , while the French recession is only now gathering pace . |
| 4 | It has not allowed for public discussion or exchanges in which people can ask questions and receive answers from those who undertook the research . |
| 5 | Rose sends greetings to all those Medau friends she has n't seen for some time . |
| 6 | In the wake of your SHOCK HEADED PETERS piece , I think you should know that Karl Blake has n't worked for British Rail for the past year and a half and is currently an art student in Sheffield . |
| 7 | Then , towards the end of August , Eachuinn Odhar got the message he 'd not expected for another month . |
| 8 | Laughton pledged not to bid for any Chemics star for at least a season — unless they wanted to sell . |
| 9 | And even that did not make for encouraging listening . |
| 10 | Barton did not care for Indian food and ate sparingly from the vegetarian buffet . |
| 11 | Biddy did not speak for some time , and stood considering them in a way that made them all feel about half their usual size . |
| 12 | Sesostris did not speak for some time . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , we did not anticipate the importance of observer bias , and we did not arrange for third party blinded observation . |
| 14 | The programme was devised in response to feedback from the previous term 's courses on assertiveness and time management , which suggested that one day courses did not allow for adequate reflection on the issues , practice or follow up discussion . |
| 15 | Like Audubon , Lear did not plan for accompanying text : this was to be a purely pictorial study of a single species . |
| 16 | However , 1792 did not establish for all time antislavery as a movement of popular mobilisation demonstrated in the use of general public meetings . |
| 17 | His leader did not believe for one moment the protestations of innocence . |
| 18 | First , it was not an annual report but a one-off ; secondly , it did not call for more funding — |
| 19 | In 1990 and 1991 , it did not apply for any money from the top slice programme — for enveloping , for group repair and area renewal , for the homelessness reserve , for the reserve for private or defective dwellings or for priority estates . |
| 20 | ‘ It was done from my section and I am afraid I did not ask for sufficient permission . |
| 21 | I did not ask for more money — I was in Bayreuth at the time . ’ |
| 22 | The opportunities of individual patronage may have been reduced , but few major writers from the time of Gay and Swift to that of George Crabbe did not look for such patronage or shape some composition toward the expectations of a patron . |
| 23 | It would be easy to dismiss ‘ softing ’ as an esoteric corner of the stock market which could be ignored , if it did not account for one deal in every six . |
| 24 | In the same issue of the Lancet , Astra replied that Glaxo 's new test was scientifically unsound because it did not account for normal cell division ( which would also stimulate DNA synthesis ) . |
| 25 | In the event , therefore , the Act did not provide for large-scale planning and redevelopment , but stimulated further direction towards slum clearance by extending new forms of subsidy directed to the rehousing of overcrowded families . |
| 26 | They did not wait for blind Pew , who tried to follow them , tapping wildly with his stick . |
| 27 | This might explain why they did not attend for clinical review . |
| 28 | As the eminent nursing historian Monica E. Baly points out , in the nineteenth century sense nursing did not qualify for professional status : ‘ … nurses were not independent practitioners and indeed , the insistence on obedience was anti-ethical to independence and self-sufficiency ’ . |
| 29 | Now , I do not pretend for one moment that children should not be taught to add , subtract , read and think logically . |
| 30 | Carol , who has learned to manage her meagre budget as carefully as any accountant , exemplifies the deeper problem of Easterhouse behind the unemployment , said to be 30 per cent , but much higher when the unemployed 16- to 18-year-olds , those on invalidity benefit and people who do not register for non-existent work are taken into account . |