Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] [verb] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And even that did not make for encouraging listening . |
| 2 | Barton did not care for Indian food and ate sparingly from the vegetarian buffet . |
| 3 | The programme was devised in response to feedback from the previous term 's courses on assertiveness and time management , which suggested that one day courses did not allow for adequate reflection on the issues , practice or follow up discussion . |
| 4 | Like Audubon , Lear did not plan for accompanying text : this was to be a purely pictorial study of a single species . |
| 5 | ‘ It was done from my section and I am afraid I did not ask for sufficient permission . |
| 6 | In the same issue of the Lancet , Astra replied that Glaxo 's new test was scientifically unsound because it did not account for normal cell division ( which would also stimulate DNA synthesis ) . |
| 7 | In the event , therefore , the Act did not provide for large-scale planning and redevelopment , but stimulated further direction towards slum clearance by extending new forms of subsidy directed to the rehousing of overcrowded families . |
| 8 | They did not wait for blind Pew , who tried to follow them , tapping wildly with his stick . |
| 9 | This might explain why they did not attend for clinical review . |
| 10 | As the eminent nursing historian Monica E. Baly points out , in the nineteenth century sense nursing did not qualify for professional status : ‘ … nurses were not independent practitioners and indeed , the insistence on obedience was anti-ethical to independence and self-sufficiency ’ . |
| 11 | She complained that her children had apparently not been allowed access to a Baptist minister , but was told that they had not asked for religious support when it was offered . |
| 12 | Belgium , as a member state of the EEC , had not legislated for equal pay . |
| 13 | Neither of them seemed to be emergencies , as the callers had n't asked for immediate aid . |