Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [not/n't] [verb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While in the case of the press alternatives were difficult to find , in that of radio other stations existed that could be listened to if the national station was found to be boring or did not cater for listeners ' tastes . |
| 2 | She was determined not to be bludgeoned into submission by lack of money and a system that seemed not to care for mothers and children . |
| 3 | For households that did not qualify for council tax discount , data on adults other than the liable person did not appear to be necessary . |
| 4 | She pledged that the Government would safeguard those that did not opt for trust status , but she expected this to be a minority . |
| 5 | This approach proved impractical and inflexible and did not allow for innovation or different national traditions . |
| 6 | It was caught in the coarse fish closed season and did not qualify for record status . |
| 7 | People she had known forever , many of them , and had not seen for ages . |
| 8 | Castro later stated that he favoured political and economic integration with Latin America but had not come begging for aid and had not asked for oil supplies to replace the potential loss of shipments from the Soviet Union . |
| 9 | Operating problems with the computer reservations system had resulted in a backlog of 10,000 bookings needing to be rechecked , making it impossible to tell who had and had not paid for tickets . |
| 10 | They embraced at the last , but did not speak for fear of the clarity with which even a whisper might carry here . |
| 11 | The church warden gave me sizes but did not ask for reproduction pieces and anyway , he only had a poor and partial photograph . |