Example sentences of "[vb -s] not [vb infin] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They thus have some control over the speed with which the AGV moves through their section , and for those sections where the carrier does not move for the full 20 minutes there is the opportunity to pace their work over that span . |
| 3 | Ambrose Evans-Pritchard also says that Menchu ‘ does not speak for the Mayan Indians of Guatemala ’ . |
| 4 | The long-standing official denial of disability in old age means that the social security system does not cater for the extra needs faced by this group . |
| 5 | However , sequential ordering still does not cater for the particular requirements of most database uses . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , he emphasised that ‘ a mere analysis of economic conditions does not suffice for an adequate understanding of the ups-and-downs of unionism ’ ( p. 627 ) . |
| 8 | This implication does not hold for a normative-explanatory account . |
| 9 | Arnold Toynbee once argued that it is the ‘ barbaric ’ vital periphery that finally topples a declining civilization , but this maxim does not hold for the Russian Revolution . |
| 10 | The reduced-rate does not count for the basic pension . |
| 11 | For these purposes a business or interest in a business does not qualify for the 100 per cent relief if the business consists wholly or mainly of dealing in securities , stocks or shares , land or buildings or of the making or holding of investments ( IHTA 1984 , s105(3) ) . |
| 12 | Erm , and the reason for this , of course , is that , as I said , natural selection selects for the reproductive success of individuals , it does not select for the reproductive success of the group . |
| 13 | The procedure does not wait for an offline module to be transferred , however a value is returned in MODULES_ON_LINE to indicate that the module is offline awaiting transfer . |
| 14 | I sincerely hope that Defence Secretary Malcolm Rifkind does not shoot for the Royal Company of Archers in the manner depicted in your front-page photograph today . |
| 15 | What is really problematic is that psychoanalysis produces a theory of identity [ i.e. sexual difference ] which does not allow for a genuine heterogeneity and contradiction in our diverse identifications . |
| 16 | The latter , while providing a crucial guide for the understanding of the way terms are used in different contexts , does not allow for a simple explanation based on substitutivity . |
| 17 | The scale and tone of the little treatise on mixed life does not allow for the complex work and breadth of thinking such definitions would entail . |
| 18 | A deceiver does not deceive for the real lover is above deception . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | While the way in which sexual relations are conducted obviously varies considerably from individual to individual and from zone to zone , generally speaking , there is an attempt to maintain a fairly strict control in the military camps , although this does not apply for the civilian population , nor should it be regarded as an indication of future attitudes . |
| 21 | Although Doody 's notion of incarnation in poetry really does not account for the hundreds of poems written by women to the standard abstractions such as sleep , pity , and wisdom , yet there is certainly a strain in the poetry of eighteenth century women which might take as its best emblem Esther Lewis perched on her stilts . |
| 22 | Because the revenue account is determined by matters of finance , it does not account for the annual cost of running the authority . |
| 23 | However , this explanation does not account for the second peak . |
| 24 | A technical explanation of this kind however does not account for the continuing one-man-band nature of many such businesses , which prevents growth for organizational as well as market reasons . |
| 25 | This supposition is , I believe , based on an impoverished concept of the nature of grammar , one which does not account for the complementary functioning of lexis and syntax as an essential resource for the negotiation of meaning in context . |
| 26 | But this alone does not account for the remarkable frequency of the in the extract ( fifty-one instances , ( 42 ) , because even on their first mention , features of the scene are generally introduced by the . |