Example sentences of "[vb past] not [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I decided not to vote for the first time in 37 years because of the EC . |
| 2 | The Judaism of the Pharisees and Scribes did not care for the lost . |
| 3 | She did not care for the serious young men who toured the Home Office and the Treasury with her . |
| 4 | Tyroglyphus , harmless to the vine but a deadly enemy of Phylloxera vastatrix , was imported in 1873 in an attempt to kill off the pest ; unfortunately , however , unlike phylloxera , Tyroglyphus did not care for the European climate and failed to settle . |
| 5 | From the 19 patients with reflux oesophagitis , one subject did not arrive for the second measurement and dropped out . |
| 6 | La Carlotta did not sing for the first hour . |
| 7 | But relations between the youngsters and their adult minders did not change for the better . |
| 8 | So they gave excuses of shortage of time or involvement in other activities to explain why they did not register for the rural party cell . |
| 9 | Ray Parlour , having been caught heavily by former Gunner Kevin Richardson , did not return for the second half . |
| 10 | They could not afford to buy a horse , and although the richer peasants were more heavily taxed , this did not compensate for the wide difference in equipment , which was not taxed . |
| 11 | The difficulty is most apparent when discussing the Renaissance since by hypostatising science and art as two separate and separable activities Kemp is framing a problem that did not exist for the historical actors . |
| 12 | Sufficient funds did not exist for the fast rehabilitation of the railways , for the immediate implementation of mass education . |
| 13 | This is so stupid that you might wonder why the employers did not plump for the other alternative — until you come to look at it ! |
| 14 | Catholics , however , did not vote for the Unionist Party . |
| 15 | Ransom did not apply for the permanent job at financially-troubled Dudley — one of the lowest spending metropolitan authorities on social services . |
| 16 | It is unlikely that the ( insignificantly ) lower incidence of hypoglycaemia with human insulin in our study was due to loss of awareness and therefore reduced detection of hypoglycaemia because the incidence of severe and biochemical hypoglycaemic episodes did not differ for the two insulin species on routine monitoring . |
| 17 | Culture conflict between the British and Sri Lankans over the boundaries of crime , concepts of status and appropriate punishments was real , but it did not account for the general approach to the courts discussed earlier in this chapter . |
| 18 | Second , steady loss , albeit at differing rates from the two populations , did not account for the observed pattern . |
| 19 | Jaqueline had retired from her job early to care for her 69-year-old mother with senile dementia , and was outraged to find that because she had a husband she did not qualify for the invalid care allowance . |
| 20 | The students ' performance on the problem based and lecture courses were not found to correlate with their preference for type of course , and those who had not volunteered for the new pathway did as well as those who had , even on the problem based sections of the new curriculum . |
| 21 | The home owner had not waited for the bureaucratic processes to be completed ; she had acted out of the goodness of her heart . |
| 22 | Dana had not appeared for the promised fitting or for the rehearsal , excusing herself at the last minute because Roman had wanted her for alterations to one of the outfits she was to wear . |