Example sentences of "[not/n't] care for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The red was sharp and thin but drinkable , though one would not care for a second glass . |
| 2 | Esther sent a card to Alix , too , but Alix 's mother forwarded it accidentally-on-purpose to the wrong address possibly because she did not care for a rather elaborate allusion to Lacrima Christi in the text , nor for the brightly coloured shiny modern Madonna which the card portrayed . |
| 3 | A proper discussion of a football match can not occur if one of the participants is quite ignorant of the rules of the game ; and the kind of assessment of a restaurant meal that would involve the possible insertion of the establishment into a good food guide ( or perhaps its deletion from it ) will not get very far if one of the diners does not care for the meal because his idea of a gastronomic treat is a cheeseburger and french fries ( though within the order of the burger discriminations are possible ) . |
| 4 | He refused an invitation from the EC 's energy authority to investigate the possibilities of translating electricity , generated within green plants , into a new source of fuel : he did not care for the clause giving the EC the right to suppress anything in the eventual reports . |
| 5 | So there were many , even among teachers , who , being university orientated , did not care for the Council . |
| 6 | Many secretaries of state are not particular admirers of their junior ministers and do not care for the department to be represented by them at OD . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The Judaism of the Pharisees and Scribes did not care for the lost . |
| 9 | Hazel did not care for the look of the trees . |
| 10 | She did not care for the serious young men who toured the Home Office and the Treasury with her . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm afraid I do not care for the theatre . ’ |
| 12 | You would n't care for a pup , now ? |
| 13 | This was n't because he did n't care for a hardship see , or because the malais had intimidated him . |
| 14 | ‘ You would n't care for a bite to eat afore you takes to your bed ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ You would n't care for a wafer-thin mint ? ’ the barman enquired . |
| 16 | ‘ Or if you do n't care for the porridge , there 's some of these new Post Toasties . |
| 17 | I do n't care for the practice of polling because of polling because it is direct descendant of that fraudulent invention sociology . |
| 18 | Dickens regards the behaviour of Mr Guppy as ‘ usual ’ in people who go over houses : ‘ They straggle about in wrong places , look at wrong things , do n't care for the right things , gape when more rooms are opened , exhibit profound depression of the spirits , and are clearly knocked up . ’ |
| 19 | John does n't care for the paintings , and there 's no financial incentive , but he feels that it 's expected of him , by nurses , and by the stone and metal hydra called society . |
| 20 | ‘ He did n't care for the law . |
| 21 | " Well , I did n't care for the way you were standing there ringing the bell . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't care for the notion that Paul Gray had his head cut off in the Cathedral . |
| 23 | ‘ He always says he does n't care for the game . |
| 24 | If you do n't care for the idea I shall understand . ’ |
| 25 | Mother never stopped telling me she did n't care for the lax morals that had become so fashionable since the outbreak of the war . |