Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [not/n't] [verb] for [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It is true the funding arrangements at the time of the research did not allow for holiday pay , sick pay , and so on .
2 For a long time , though , not only was contact thought of as inappropriate and as transgressing the traditional image of adoption , but there was also the view that the Adoption Act did not provide for access or contact .
3 Thus , when in Trusthouse Forte Albany Hotels Ltd v Daejan Investments Ltd ( No 1 ) [ 1980 ] 256 EG 915 the lease under which the rent reviewer was acting as an expert did not provide for interest to compensate the landlord for the tenant 's delay in paying the increased rent , the court refused to imply the missing term .
4 Who knows what would have happened if Karen had n't asked for identification .
5 Belfast loyalists did not vote for Seawright because he wanted to burn Catholics but because he lived in a council flat , spoke up for those loyalists who tried to kill IRA men , and was not prepared to abandon working-class Protestants in order to appear respectable .
6 That the Director of Public Prosecutions did not press for prosecution suggests that this line of defence might have been effective , or might have resulted in the prosecution net catching even larger , embarrassed fish .
7 Georgia did not apply for membership .
8 The hint of quality did not allow for heating and surface drainage , but neither were strictly essential in the summer months .
9 In their case the statute of limitations only started to apply once an actual fault was discovered , but their PI payments did not qualify for relief because they had stopped working .
10 Charles and his contemporaries did not appeal for authority to individual judgement or experience : instead they invoked shared role-models and peer-group pressure .
11 Microsoft Corp did n't wait for Sun Microsystems Inc 's SunSelect unit actually to announce its Windows-under-Unix Wabi system before taking retaliatory action ( CI No 2,1620 .
12 The policing of CND rallies and the miners ' strike could hardly be said from the Government 's point of view to have failed , and certainly the police did not suffer for want of legal powers .
13 The place suddenly had its history of bloodletting to be sniffed , and yet even that was not exciting , maybe because the Nîmois did not roar for blood as the Romans had , but sunned themselves and discussed finer points of capework .
14 It surprised her that Mr Pascall had not used for publicity purposes the fact that the author was from Tollemarche .
15 This reciprocal position did not make for sincerity and real understanding .
16 There was always work on a lighthouse , and the sea did not wait for morning .
17 So the question of the soundness of Atkins L.J . 's dictum did not arise for decision in that case .
18 Poor men in the country did not travel for pleasure at all , combining enjoyment with business at markets and fairs .
19 Of course he had some other assets , but the collapse of the central part of his fortune did not make for buoyancy .
20 Parental T1 cells , from which T2 cells were derived , were positive for HLA-A2.1 and -B5 and also for HLA class II molecules , whereas T2 cells did not stain for HLA-B5 and only weakly for HLA-A2.1 ( Fig. 1 ) .
21 However , an agreement did not qualify for exemption if its beneficial effects were only indispensable within a national market .
22 The studies reported in this table did not control for maturity or seasonality effects in the distribution , that is , they studied the distribution of futures price changes or returns across all seasons of the year and for a variety of contract maturities ( maturity effects on the distribution are discussed in Chapter 8 , while seasonality effects are considered in Chapter 9 ) .
23 As BTR had no stake in the glass industry prior to the bid , the proposed merger did not qualify for referral on the competition yardstick .
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