Example sentences of "[vb base] [not/n't] [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carol , who has learned to manage her meagre budget as carefully as any accountant , exemplifies the deeper problem of Easterhouse behind the unemployment , said to be 30 per cent , but much higher when the unemployed 16- to 18-year-olds , those on invalidity benefit and people who do not register for non-existent work are taken into account . |
| 2 | Per capita distribution of wealth roughly followed this division , the industrial countries having the highest standard of living and the agricultural nations of the south and east the lowest , but the figures do not exist for precise comparisons . |
| 3 | About half of all part-timers earn below the limit , and therefore do not exist for national insurance purposes . |
| 4 | ‘ Do not go for lonely walks while I am away . ’ |
| 5 | And this is quite unique when you go to South Africa and you see what 's happening that black leaders and blacks do not go for quick votes and quick solutions , we 're not trying to keep , tu turn people against whites . |
| 6 | There will always be a percentage of people who do not vote for various reasons . |
| 7 | The evaluation runs mentioned above indicate that the results with mid-class representations do not hold for connected speech . |
| 8 | Experimentally it is found that while Hooke 's law and its viscoelastic analogue of Boltzmann 's superposition principle hold adequately for very small strains ( typically less than 0.1 per cent ) they certain do not hold for large strains of 10 per cent or more . |
| 9 | Many new towns on the fringe of the affluent south-east are so heavily populated by young married couples that they simply do not cater for retired people in any of their social activities ; similarly , you may be pushed to find an under-30s ' club in a retirement village on the south coast . |
| 10 | Court permission has been granted to sell the property and advice is being sought as to the best way to approach this but the state of the building and the effects of the economic situation do not make for easy decisions . |
| 11 | Court permission has been granted to sell the property and advice is being sought as to the best way to approach this but the state of the building and the effects of the economic situation do not make for easy decisions . |
| 12 | The Building Regulations themselves do not make for easy reading , but there are various guides designed to explain them and the DoE now produce a Manual to the Building Regulations . |
| 13 | These films do not make for easy viewing . |
| 14 | Theories do not make for liberating music . |
| 15 | The disconcerting ‘ first-disk ’ string sound may be down to miking difficulties ; likewise the booming timpani and overly forward woodwind , and these things do not make for comfortable listening . |
| 16 | The Civil Justice Review , on examining the arguments , recognised the need to assist people who do not qualify for legal aid funding , drew attention to the major advances that had been made in regulation policy so as probably to be able to control a contingency fee system and , on the basis of competition policy , considered whether it would be more desirable to devise more limited schemes under which lawyers would have a stake in the outcome of a case as an incentive . |
| 17 | At the second Special General Meeting held at Keele University on September 12th , the proposal to create a register of Dormant Members for members who cease active participation of funeral or embalming work but do not qualify for Retired Membership status was rejected . |
| 18 | Clearly compensation for people on low incomes is to be aimed only at those on income support , even though many disabled people have extra heating costs associated with their disability , and many others on low incomes , such as pensioners , may narrowly miss out because of small savings or because they do not qualify for means-tested benefits , but still live at income support level . |
| 19 | Age-related widows ' pension is for younger widows , who do not qualify for full rate . |
| 20 | Blackthorn blossom , gold of cowslip and kingcup , and blue of periwinkle and speedwell do not atone for unclothed branches . |
| 21 | Scientists working within a paradigm do not look for major discoveries ; they simply try to solve the problems posed by the current paradigm . |
| 22 | The principal weakness of the rescission remedy and the statutory alternative of damages in lieu of rescission , is that they do not provide for consequential loss , for example , profits on resale . |
| 23 | they do not provide for flexible combination as is demanded by highly specific subjects ; |
| 24 | What is more , these estimates assume a well-maintained canal and do not allow for excessive leakage . |
| 25 | Large scale , site-specific projects which do not allow for secondary sale are hardly ever considered to be a worthwhile investment . |
| 26 | Do not work for long periods without a break . |
| 27 | If the costs and benefits do not differ for alternative opportunities under consideration these costs and benefits will be irrelevant to decisions . |
| 28 | Do not wait for political discussions . |
| 29 | • Do not wait for secondary symptoms as tissue damage will have already occurred . |
| 30 | At the heart of the mother 's fury was the fact that the teacher was a self-confessed lesbian — and apparently added insult to injury by assuring the mother : ‘ I do n't go for young girls . |