Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sufficient funds did not exist for the fast rehabilitation of the railways , for the immediate implementation of mass education . |
| 2 | A warning message will be displayed if it is a development version , or if that version does not exist for the given Product package at this time . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Needless to say , this attitude did not make for a good marriage . |
| 5 | Their success at the game did not make for an easy relationship , though . |
| 6 | Oliver wondered why Angelina was not clamouring for a new vote in order to support her fiancé and decided that this was some further infamous plan on her part . |
| 7 | The first three instruments here are obviously not intended for the serious player but for the beginner , or to be strummed once in a while as a second or third instrument . |
| 8 | They 're not intended for the dedicated hiker . |
| 9 | Not painted for a specific location and comprising canvases of different dimensions , the frieze was a pool of images from which Munch made withdrawals for sale , replacing the pictures which he had plundered with new versions of the same composition . |
| 10 | Indeed , I remember warning her , half in joke , half in earnest , that I could not answer for the new Government lasting more than six weeks . |
| 11 | The kind of music she had not heard for a long time . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The right of rejection is not given for an ordinary breach of warranty . |
| 14 | This is not catering for the indigenous population of Ayrshire and Arran . |
| 15 | The article ended : ‘ The prince 's image has been badly damaged and statesman-like behaviour can not compensate for a young wife throwing herself downstairs in an attempted suicide while her husband strides to go out riding . |
| 16 | Although the syntactic filter could no doubt be improved , it probably could not compensate for a 20,000 word lexicon and/or poorer acoustic-phonetic discrimination . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Elderly people require a lot of time and effort on a GP 's part , the GP gets extra money for that but it may not compensate for the extra work . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Such a facility would normally apply to a physically discrete or contained site ( e.g. a single pasture , groups of pastures , a wetland separated from other land ) in order that livestock from another ownership or section of land could not substitute for the agreed reduction . |
| 21 | The development of professional competence however paramountly desirable can not substitute for the academic element in language courses . |
| 22 | I doubted not that they were law officers , but did not linger for a second look , being already at the casement windows into the side garden . |
| 23 | In other words not to provide for a continuing level of migration as it has been in the past . |
| 24 | The reduced-rate does not count for the basic pension . |
| 25 | Two days before the speech ( i.e. on Aug. 14 ) a petition signed by a group of 58 human rights activists , academics and retired armed forces officers had called on Suharto not to stand for a sixth term as President in 1993 . |
| 26 | Hence those who take a floating charge from a company which can not be proved to be solvent , and which does not survive for a further year , can not thereby obtain protection in respect to their existing debts , but only to the extent that they provide the company with new value and thus increase the assets available for other creditors . |
| 27 | The result was a vessel which was surprisingly fast and manoeuvrable for its size — few were more than twenty drem in length — but they were not designed for an extended sea journey , that was certain . |
| 28 | The big show-piece cinemas were built to pull in the fashionable trade but they were not designed for the exclusive use of a social elite ; rather they were provided for all those groups who were prepared to pay money for the movie entertainment that was being provided as part of the delights offered by the down-town city . |
| 29 | One , the non-contributory invalidity pension , is paid for those who are incapable of work and do not qualify for a contributory pension . |
| 30 | There are very particular financial strains for those who are divorced or separated who do not qualify for a special pension like a widow . |