Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] for a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the resist is not exposed for a long enough period , it will not develop fully and so some traces will remain on the board . |
| 2 | Yet ironically , recent government policies have created a situation where more and more prisoners serving life and other long sentences have rather less to lose , for it has now been decreed that various categories of serious offender will not normally be considered for parole , or not considered for a very long time ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 3 | She was not prepared for a very similar question being thrown at her . |
| 4 | The inflation in the early stages of the universe , which the no boundary proposal predicts , means that the universe must be expanding at very close to the critical rate at which it would just avoid recollapse , and so will not recollapse for a very long time . |
| 5 | This has not made for a smoothly running society , whose members all feel part of a common enterprise . |
| 6 | There was a flicker of response in them which Brian had not seen for a very long time . |
| 7 | It was something he had not felt for a very long time . |
| 8 | They were not opting for a particularly expensive scheme . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They did n't speak for a very long time . |
| 11 | Mr Brown said he really could n't wish for a more destructive class . |
| 12 | I could n't ask for a more caring and loving bunch of people . |