Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] for [pos pn] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | a sentence is not autonomous , it does not exist for its own sake but as part of a situation and part of a text . |
| 2 | The old age of some industrial plants , many of which were not designed for their present use . |
| 3 | She could hardly believe it , and she could not wait for her next consultation to see what was going to happen next . |
| 4 | In a market , bargaining is constrained by threats of imminent termination of any existing or proposed contracts ; opportunism is controlled by the readiness of people to sever their dealings with other resource owners ; and continuity of an agreement between people is not valued for its own sake : transactions are administered in an impersonal way , typified by the ‘ faceless ’ bargaining of competitive market models . |
| 5 | It is an offence for a shopkeeper to sell solvent based products to anyone under the age of 18 , if they know , or have reasonable cause to believe , that the products are to be abused , and not used for their normal purpose . |
| 6 | INSIDER DEALING Journalists should not use for their own profit financial information they receive professionally in advance of its general publication . |
| 7 | They did not look as though they were suckering in the baleful way that the ordinary stag's-horn sumach does , but as I have not grown either myself yet , I can not vouch for their good behaviour . |
| 8 | Then he may still not vote for his preferred alternative if there are positive net costs to voting . |
| 9 | The path is deeply etched all the way along the ridge , but walkers need not look too guiltily at their boots — like many others in the area , the path was formerly a packhorse route and horses are not noted for their ecological delicacy . |
| 10 | The argument , although thought-provoking , was not watertight ; panegyrics are not noted for their chronological reliability — and besides there could have been more than one battle against the Alamans . |
| 11 | Although our debates on this subject have attracted a flurry of interest , attendances at debates on the European Community are not noted for their large size . |
| 12 | While other people waste time injecting their five-second expertise into decisions which do not call for their real expertise , the Profitboss gets ahead with his own expert profit-orientated decisions . |
| 13 | That way , they query nothing and never answer back ; as a result they are not known for their political judgement , but , during the Depression they were jolted into social awareness . |
| 14 | Barnsley are not known for their fancy football or flair , but they 're well drilled and organised and Oxford just could n't find a way through . |
| 15 | Two disciplines not known for their loving attachment to high , or any other height , technology . |
| 16 | Mind you , not known for their generous pay awards , these Councils according to the government are a main obstacle to economic hope and prosperity in Britain . |
| 17 | Tough it may be , but Washington is one who defied the odds to achieve world status in a sport not known for its liberal representation of blacks . |
| 18 | Soon Richard Darman , the budget director not known for his light touch , will resume his attack . |
| 19 | Why should the Tory party not pay for its own advertising out of party political funds rather than constantly using taxpayers ' money to try to get its message across ? |
| 20 | On this occasion he had not allowed for his four-year-old son Robert , who piped up : ‘ The vestry is where Daddy does the toilet before the service . ’ |
| 21 | From an early age , Shah Jehan made it clear that he did not care for his third son , and instead increasingly lavished attention on the more amiable Dara Shukoh . |
| 22 | That moustache is not an English moustache , the flower in the button-hole is from some foreign field and I fancy he does not care for his pickled egg . |
| 23 | If you can not care for your own body , you will not be able to care for your company . |
| 24 | These positions were not held for his own status but to promote the cause of rowing where it needed clout . |
| 25 | Locke obviously recognized the implausibility of supposing that experience gives us these pieces of knowledge ; experience can not account for their certain applicability to all wholes , all numbers , or all promises . |
| 26 | He 's on the go every single night , which may or may not account for his upcoming divorce . ’ |
| 27 | Throughout my life I have been oppressed by society 's expectations , so the man in my life is not to blame for my constant questioning of what life can offer me , and women like me . |
| 28 | Of course , they did n't fall for my cursed excuse , so I then tried going into sharp reverse to avoid the dreaded twice-weekly occurrence . |
| 29 | ‘ I ca n't wait for his first day — I 'll spend it in bed . ’ |
| 30 | One of the accusations used and levelled against er against Christianity against the , the evangelical message , against things like the , the mission of Graham and , and others is that it , it does n't meet the needs the , the material needs of people but if you deal with the persons spiritual needs , if their sins are forgiven , those problems that are causing the material problem , it 's amazing how there are dealt with as well , the best way to sober up a person , the best way to deal with a person who 's an alcoholic , the best way to deal with a person who is a drug addict , the best way to deal with a person who , who commits adultery is not by telling them the wrongs of those things , it 's not by trying to , to , to do , to , to , you know , to , to counsel them it 's presenting the gospel allowing Jesus Christ to come into their lives and to forgive them , that will make the person sober quicker than all the counselling in the world and Paul says I brought you the most important the fundamental thing , that Christ died for our sins Paul again when he 's writing to the Romans in chapter five and verse eight he says but God demonstrates his own love towards us , in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us so God did in Jesus Christ what we could n't do for ourselves , so all of you have sin , so all of my sin , and he came and he died on the cross and as he was dying there was that transmit there , for he was n't dying for his own sin buy he was dying for your sin and for mine , it was all piled on him and so when we except what Christ has done , when we come to that place and yes I believe that you died for me , |