Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] for a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He may have been joking , but his fatalistic sentiment was in the sane vein as a cruel remark made as Davies 's men departed in triumph : ‘ We understood Eastbourne were the only team who have not applied for a postal vote in the General Election . ’ |
| 32 | Although they discovered they had hardly a single taste in common , he was nonetheless a witty and amusing host and she found herself laughing in a way she had not done for a considerable time . |
| 33 | These were friends not seen for a long time , visited now because there was something to celebrate . |
| 34 | So if you want to prevent leaks — why not send for a free sample of ultra-absorbent Togs ? |
| 35 | So I really , my , my , my advice is not to aim for a hundred percent efficiency but always to programme five percent optimistically . |
| 36 | No stamp duty should be payable because of these reliefs but the Regulations do not provide for a hybrid certificate . |
| 37 | We should not look for a simple reflection : ‘ a single , fixed mode of exchange ; in reality there are many modes , their character is determined historically , and they are continually renegotiated ’ . |
| 38 | Lions are strong but can not run for a long time . |
| 39 | Reports indicated that agreement on the final communiqué was reached only after France had decided not to press for a clearer recognition of a European defence identity distinct from NATO . |
| 40 | Teenage farm workers are particularly sensitive to their image at an age when they are dating girls who may or may not hope for a better future than that of a farm worker 's wife . |
| 41 | Unfortunately , encyclopaedias are very expensive to compile and publish so one can not hope for a new edition every year and the information in them is thus often very dated . |
| 42 | ‘ I 've not played for a long time and to get a goal in the first ten minutes was incredible . |
| 43 | In Rangoon Nu announced : ‘ AFPFL is not calling for a general strike among workers at the present time . |
| 44 | Pearl has the unenviable reputation of being one of the more sleepy members within a sector not noted for a dynamic approach . |
| 45 | Well no , we got two in the sidelines , we got this Indian guy who was not coming for a second interview until we can say we 'll pay him |
| 46 | The Crown 's practical arguments were that the case was so rare that it could not call for a fundamental reformulation of the law and that it was impossible for their lordships to set limits on the application of the principle which , being a matter of policy , was a question for the legislature . |
| 47 | must not proceed for a private customer with any one packaged product if it is aware of another packaged product on the market which will meet the customer 's requirements better ; and |
| 48 | must not proceed for a private customer with a packaged product of , or arranged by , any person with whom the firm has a connection unless the firm believes on reasonable grounds that the product will meet the customer 's requirements better than any other packaged product on the market . |
| 49 | He simply hopes they will emerge of their own accord , and this may not happen for a considerable time . |
| 50 | Sometimes the tears come for no reason ( by which phrase we mean that someone is not crying for a particular reason , for something or someone in particular , but that they are crying for everything ) . |
| 51 | If the player tampers with those , he is blamed for hitting a sour note , not praised for a daring interpretation . |
| 52 | With Aquino adamant that she would not stand for a second term , the jostling for position amongst those ambitious to succeed her intensified in late 1990 and early 1991 . |
| 53 | Waldheim , who had been barred from entering the USA [ see p. 35528 ] and shunned by European governments , had announced in June 1991 that he would not stand for a second term [ see p. 38298 ] . |
| 54 | One enterprising station-master frequently told all passengers that their trains would not leave for a long time . |
| 55 | In this case , Lord Denning distinguished Bartlett v Sidney Marcus ( 1965 ) by explaining that if a car does not go for a reasonable time and the engine breaks up , this is evidence to show that the car was not fit for its purpose when sold . |
| 56 | If the issue today in some people 's eyes is the need for this community in Greater York to be one hundred percent self sufficient then perhaps we really ought to go pack up and er go home , er because there 's no way that er a settlement that one could envisage in Greater York or perhaps anywhere else can be a hundred percent self sufficiency , self sufficient , you 're not going to get a shopping mall , you 'd be unlikely to get a a major touring theatre , so you can not aim for a hundred percent self sufficiency , you aim for what is appropriate for the size of the community and particularly its relationship to existing settlements er in the general area . |
| 57 | This implication does not hold for a normative-explanatory account . |
| 58 | Yet what applies to a rat or dog need not hold for a human being . |
| 59 | She said she had been released half a mile away on a misty common and had not eaten for a long time . |
| 60 | So I I 'm extremely pleased that the County Council have not gone for a strategic exceptions policy . |