Example sentences of "[vb base] not [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not speak for the Philippine health movement , rather these are my attempts to understand how both small-scale local initiatives and a national effort can alter the historical process which to date has left the majority of the 60 million Filipino people living in dire poverty in a land of plenty . |
| 2 | Do not start for a strange city or town , even for a night , without previous information of a safe place to stay . |
| 3 | ( 1 ) Do not study for an extended period on one subject . |
| 4 | ‘ I do not go for the peaked caps , epaulettes and dummy holsters , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Organizations do not search for the best mushroom on the prairie if they have an hour in which to find it ; they choose the first mushroom which satisfies their aspiration level . |
| 6 | One , the non-contributory invalidity pension , is paid for those who are incapable of work and do not qualify for a contributory pension . |
| 7 | Married women and widows who do not qualify for a basic pension in their own right may be entitled to a basic pension on their husband 's contributions at about 60 per cent of the level to which he is entitled ( see ‘ Pensions for women ’ at the end of the chapter ) . |
| 8 | There are very particular financial strains for those who are divorced or separated who do not qualify for a special pension like a widow . |
| 9 | No stamp duty should be payable because of these reliefs but the Regulations do not provide for a hybrid certificate . |
| 10 | The trouble with this and other moralistic creeds is that they do not allow for the righteous manifestly not enjoying the fruits of their exemplary conduct . |
| 11 | Health warnings on advertisements do not work for the same reason as health warnings on labels — they represent a token gesture which will have no material effect . |
| 12 | This takes us back to explanations similar to those suggested for the variation in group size early in these studies ( Crook and Gartlan 1966 ) but these do not account for the massive gregariousness of the species under optimum conditions when a more even dispersion of the population would reduce the costs of foraging . |
| 13 | Projects of this sort certainly do not call for an elaborate cost-benefit analysis ; resources should be assigned to them on the basis of a simple ‘ back-of-an-envelope ’ analysis or an informed subjective decision . |
| 14 | You can also choose sealed units that give your windows the small-paned Georgian look , or the appearance of leaded lights in square and diamond formats , with none of the cleaning problems — the glazing bars and lead strips are set in the gap between the outer panes ( as long as you do n't go for a large picture window with this effect — it can look just plain silly ! ) . |
| 15 | You do n't , so you do n't go for the new ones you just ca go back to the beginning of the list ? |
| 16 | ‘ And I do n't go for the fancy decorations and general hoo-hah . |
| 17 | And it 's funny an' all that the dirty buggers do n't go for the ragged-arsed lot that 's swarmin , the place . |
| 18 | In an era of fast food , subsistence incomes do n't make for a culinary culture . |
| 19 | He says : ‘ Small budgets , apologetic councils strapped for cash , and a complex social and sometimes ethnic mix of young customers and their parents do n't make for an easy life . ’ |
| 20 | A Protestant woman , naturally , I do n't speak for the other sort . ’ |
| 21 | Dickens regards the behaviour of Mr Guppy as ‘ usual ’ in people who go over houses : ‘ They straggle about in wrong places , look at wrong things , do n't care for the right things , gape when more rooms are opened , exhibit profound depression of the spirits , and are clearly knocked up . ’ |
| 22 | erm actually I do n't mean for a gipsy site it 's sort of two people have applied to have ordinary caravans there , like holiday caravans , etc . |
| 23 | The slogans of the main parties could be summed up as ‘ Do n't vote for the other party ’ ; and the only person rising in the polls was the leader of the Liberal Democrats , whose message could be summed up as ‘ Do n't vote for negative campaigning ’ . |
| 24 | When intercepting a desired track QDM do n't wait for the exact Track QDM . |
| 25 | In London it 's only Annabel 's or Tramp — the rest do n't happen for the certain crowd , the newspaper-worthy crowd I 'm looking for . ’ |
| 26 | They do n't act for the governing body , by any chance ? ’ |
| 27 | But do n't opt for the obvious solution : cutting the stuff into stunted threads is practised only by the infantile . |
| 28 | We still use the old byre for milking and the few cows I keep do n't call for a new mechanical milker . |
| 29 | she 's here telling me how they sent over and she said oh do n't call for the next two week because we 're going to Italy |
| 30 | A piece of fundamental fieldwork : people do n't look for the unexpected . |