Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] for the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The heavy makeup melting even in the air-conditioning , the legless beggar who sleeps under the office porch and cleans their shoes in gratitude , the slums you can not observe because no roads go through the swamps and whose inhabitants do not exist for the State because the census officials can not reach them , the bomb-carriers serving as flower-pots , the boys selling themselves to the rich English ex-public schoolboys , the girls selling themselves to the fat German tourists , the police raping the boys and the girls they are protecting in the police-stations , the Committee officers boasting to Kate about the elegant jerk-offs in the massage parlours , their ever-decorative ever-bored wives boasting to Kate about their jewellery , the Thai girls saving up for eye and breast jobs , the luxury hotels where the high-class white whores hang out , the students shot by the military during a demonstration against the army regime , the girl students daring for the first time to stay out at night on the streets to picket , the crushing of strikes with bullets and beatings , the barring of political books in the Committee library , the anti-Communist adverts punctuating the Western films on TV . |
| 2 | The Labour party cloaks under expressions such as ’ attack on civil rights ’ the fact that such people have not registered for the tax and have been indulging in tax avoidance , a practice for which the Labour party still shows some sympathy . |
| 3 | It was not intended for the man or woman at the receiving end but for the author 's fellow elitists . |
| 4 | Although the money MI6 has provided has given him access to Western luxuries , they can not compensate for the fact that he will never see his motherland again . |
| 5 | Kingston , whose coach Kevin Cadle watched Friday night 's semi-final , did not qualify for the tournament because they did not compete in the League last season although their form over the past three weeks suggests they will be front runners over the next seven months . |
| 6 | The Irish may have scored socially but they came a poor second on the field because , says DON CAMERON , they were not prepared for the speed and the impact of the N.Z. game . |
| 7 | Nozick 's case rests on the view that so long as one is not acting for the reason that one 's action will favour one of the parties or hinder the other , but for a valid independent reason , then one 's neutrality is intact . |
| 8 | Yet , among its symptoms listed by Marx in his description of alienation , one — the fact that the work is not done for the worker but for someone else , that ‘ in his work he does not belong to himself but to another person … . |
| 9 | Riche could not enforce the contract since the objects clause did not provide for the construction and running of railway systems , only for the manufacture of railway equipment . |
| 10 | You must not look for the book until you reach the shelf carrying its class number . |
| 11 | Bournville , the community that has grown up around Cadbury 's Birmingham factory , is widely regarded as a company town , although from its foundation it has been open to people who do not work for the company and only a minority of the residents now have any link with Cadbury 's . |
| 12 | Mr Fagan , who was 30 at the time , was not prosecuted for the trespass after the Director of Public Prosecutions ruled there was no evidence that the trespass was a criminal offence . |
| 13 | However , the company was not prosecuted for the fact that four people died , but because the machinery was not properly maintained ; they were fined £5,000 . |
| 14 | Thus the company responsible for the hoist accident at Littlebrook Dee power station were not prosecuted for the fact that five men died , but for the fact that the machinery was not properly maintained or inspected . |
| 15 | ‘ I did not apply for the job but after I was asked to a meeting with the chairman , Jimmy Baxter , I was impressed by East Fife 's ambition , ’ said Totten . |
| 16 | It did not aim for the situation that we 've been discussing , where people are trying to get the information . |
| 17 | On the other hand they are telling us we are not playing for the money but the love of the sport . |
| 18 | Secondly , explanations of strategy that appeal only to external constraints do not allow for the possibility that a class may have a range of interests , not all of which can be satisfied by any single policy . |
| 19 | However , in all these experiments only high imagery words varying in age of acquisition were used , which does not allow for the possibility that there is an interaction between visual field , imagery and age of acquisition . |
| 20 | A program which depends on several hours of training does not allow for the time and number constraints of the classroom . |
| 21 | For example , the Home Responsibility Protection of pension rights under the current version of the State Earnings Related Pension Scheme ( SERPS ) recognizes that valuable work is being done by women who are not earning enough to pay contributions , but does not allow for the fact that the low pay of some who are contributing reflects their domestic responsibilities as well . |
| 22 | For simplicity we focus on the male line ; i.e. , we do not allow for the fact that , as the model stands , women have neither wealth nor income . |
| 23 | The text reveals : ’ the survey format does not allow for the fact that some respondents , both in the UK and elsewhere , are in part-time , rather than full-time , education . ’ |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | These poems offer , then , not care for the self but care of the other . |
| 26 | Matters were not improved for the defence when the trial judge refused Mr. Small 's application for the judge to look at the January statement for himself pursuant to section 17 of the Evidence Act . |
| 27 | Those Conservative Members and the electorate know that we are not to blame for the mess that we are in . |
| 28 | Their father made it clear they were not to blame for the situation and today neither recalls feeling guilty . |
| 29 | Rough or smooth , it did n't matter for the bond that grew between us was strong . |
| 30 | You may say the Americans were wonderful with their ambulances but they did n't pay for the dairy and half the animals were dead already or had to be slaughtered . |