Example sentences of "[verb] not [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The judge has not asked for the 37year-old Marquess , heir to Blenheim Palace , to attend . |
2 | Hirst , who scored in his second appearance on the 1991 tour of Australasia , has not played for the senior side since that Wembley game . |
3 | While Mr Patiño may well be selling to simplify his life after he moves into his new London residence , Mrs Johnson 's reasons for selling are much more controversial , as it is generally believed that the heiress has not paid for the celebrated Badminton Cabinet which she bought at Christie 's , London , in July 1990 for a record £7.6 million ( $15.2 million ) . |
4 | If only … if only … if only there could be some way of reaching agreement , some way of reassuring each player that the other can be trusted not to go for the selfish jackpot , some way of policing the agreement . |
5 | Cos she has n't applied for a green card to work , cos there 's point |
6 | Andersson has n't played for the Belgian club for three months . |
7 | Taylor said : ‘ Freidle would n't meet the criteria for a work permit if he has n't played for the full international side of a country that does n't have a high standard of football . |
8 | Lyle , who scored a 71 for 147 , has n't qualified for the other two American majors . |
9 | No rule of law or the profession , therefore , prevents him from entering into a contract by which he undertakes not to act for a specified class of person . |
10 | Sometimes that means not looking for the obvious , adds Mr Pilkington , who is also a real ale connoisseur and member of CAMRA . |
11 | Needless to say , this attitude did not make for a good marriage . |
12 | Their success at the game did not make for an easy relationship , though . |
13 | The Judaism of the Pharisees and Scribes did not care for the lost . |
14 | She did not care for the serious young men who toured the Home Office and the Treasury with her . |
15 | Tyroglyphus , harmless to the vine but a deadly enemy of Phylloxera vastatrix , was imported in 1873 in an attempt to kill off the pest ; unfortunately , however , unlike phylloxera , Tyroglyphus did not care for the European climate and failed to settle . |
16 | Most of them did not control for a possible confounding effect of H pylori infection . |
17 | So they gave excuses of shortage of time or involvement in other activities to explain why they did not register for the rural party cell . |
18 | Susie did not reply for a long time . |
19 | The superb frescoes , concealed from sight by Muslim prejudice for nearly five hundred years , were again on view , but they did not compensate for a profound sense of desecration . |
20 | They could not afford to buy a horse , and although the richer peasants were more heavily taxed , this did not compensate for the wide difference in equipment , which was not taxed . |
21 | She heaved out a great sigh and did not move for a full fifteen seconds : the sergeant watched them tick past , marked by the flick of the thin red hand of the electric clock on the wall . |
22 | The difficulty is most apparent when discussing the Renaissance since by hypostatising science and art as two separate and separable activities Kemp is framing a problem that did not exist for the historical actors . |
23 | Sufficient funds did not exist for the fast rehabilitation of the railways , for the immediate implementation of mass education . |
24 | This is so stupid that you might wonder why the employers did not plump for the other alternative — until you come to look at it ! |
25 | Even if the king himself did not press for an early political role , others might well do so on his behalf as a way of strengthening their own position . |
26 | Even if the king himself did not press for an early political role , others might well do so on his behalf as a way of strengthening their own position . |
27 | He did not press for an immediate renewal of Anselm 's homage ; and William Giffard stopped calling himself bishop of Winchester . |
28 | Catholics , however , did not vote for the Unionist Party . |
29 | I left the hotel early and in pleasant sunshine , wearing a light jacket and bow tie , but alas did not bargain for a sudden change in the weather . |
30 | It is rubbish to think that , because Sheikh Mohammed and his brothers did not bid for a single horse at Newmarket last week , the racing game is about to die on its feet . |