Example sentences of "[vb base] [not/n't] [verb] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it is very important for those outside America to understand that , like myself , the media and people of Los Angeles do not speak for the rest of the country . |
| 2 | The Egyptians , while insisting that they do not speak for the Palestinians , appear ready to fudge the principle of PLO selection of the Palestinian delegation to ensure Israeli participation . |
| 3 | The Egyptians , while insisting that they do not speak for the Palestinians , appear ready to fudge the principle of PLO selection of the Palestinian delegation to ensure Israeli participation . |
| 4 | The heavy makeup melting even in the air-conditioning , the legless beggar who sleeps under the office porch and cleans their shoes in gratitude , the slums you can not observe because no roads go through the swamps and whose inhabitants do not exist for the State because the census officials can not reach them , the bomb-carriers serving as flower-pots , the boys selling themselves to the rich English ex-public schoolboys , the girls selling themselves to the fat German tourists , the police raping the boys and the girls they are protecting in the police-stations , the Committee officers boasting to Kate about the elegant jerk-offs in the massage parlours , their ever-decorative ever-bored wives boasting to Kate about their jewellery , the Thai girls saving up for eye and breast jobs , the luxury hotels where the high-class white whores hang out , the students shot by the military during a demonstration against the army regime , the girl students daring for the first time to stay out at night on the streets to picket , the crushing of strikes with bullets and beatings , the barring of political books in the Committee library , the anti-Communist adverts punctuating the Western films on TV . |
| 5 | This general tendency in soil conservation evaluation derives from similar problems identified by critics of the existing approaches to agricultural research , namely the lack of a continuous outreach to and from research stations and farmers , and the conducting of programmes under conditions that do not exist for the farmer/pastoralist who is supposed to adopt them ( Biggs 1981 ) . |
| 6 | I do not think for a moment that the Letter of Aristeas should be taken as a Festal Scroll , something like the Book of Esther , to be read in the Alexandrian synagogues every year on the day on which ( as we know from Philo ) the Alexandrian Jews commemorated the translation ( De vita Mosis 2.41 ) . |
| 7 | And I think of Matthew nineteen verse twelve : And there are those who do not marry for the sake of the kingdom of heaven , Communism . |
| 8 | they do not cater for the specialist viewpoints of any given application , since alternative approaches are not normally provided ; |
| 9 | I do not suggest for a moment that I have described every interesting object within binocular range , but I think that there is enough variety here to satisfy most people . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm afraid I do not care for the theatre . ’ |
| 11 | Many secretaries of state are not particular admirers of their junior ministers and do not care for the department to be represented by them at OD . |
| 12 | ‘ I do not imagine for a minute that someone of your ability will have come here without prying into my background . |
| 13 | If you do not weigh for a year and you eat just an extra 500 calories each day during that time , you will have put on a full 45 lb ( 21.8 kg ) ; rather a nasty shock ! |
| 14 | These 10 places will in the main come from the middle 549 clubs who by their status do not qualify for the Cup . |
| 15 | I do not believe for a moment that , with unemployment heading towards three million , the benefits would be significantly dissipated by higher inflation , any more than were the benefits of depreciation in the early 1980s . |
| 16 | I do not believe for a moment that in the future we shall allow millions of our fellow-countrymen , through no fault of their own , to pass through life ill-housed , ill-clothed , ill-fed , ill-educated . |
| 17 | Secondly , explanations of strategy that appeal only to external constraints do not allow for the possibility that a class may have a range of interests , not all of which can be satisfied by any single policy . |
| 18 | For simplicity we focus on the male line ; i.e. , we do not allow for the fact that , as the model stands , women have neither wealth nor income . |
| 19 | Hash coding methods ( section 3.2.6 ) were also not implemented as they do not allow for the study of sub-word letter sequences . |
| 20 | Either way , they would see no increase in their direct taxes under Labour , provided they do not work for a living . |
| 21 | Bournville , the community that has grown up around Cadbury 's Birmingham factory , is widely regarded as a company town , although from its foundation it has been open to people who do not work for the company and only a minority of the residents now have any link with Cadbury 's . |
| 22 | I do not deny for a moment that about 0.01 per cent . |
| 23 | Longer working hours do not account for the increase , because on the whole the ‘ normal ’ working week was reduced and holidays grew longer The number of married women employed on a part-time basis also grew rapidly The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ( OECD , expanded from the OEEC ) has suggested that hours of work decreased by about 0.3 per cent a year during the 1950s , and by 0.8 per cent a year during the 1960s . |
| 24 | The mechanisms that might be responsible for these effects are in need of fuller specification but the effort would perhaps not be worthwhile since in fact they do not account for the results to be explained . |
| 25 | More and more women are going it alone , and men are rendered homeless by housing allocation policies which do not account for the needs of the single and childless . |
| 26 | And the figures do not account for the numbers of unreported cases . |
| 27 | Authoritarians do not apologize for the smack of firm government . |
| 28 | I do not concede for a moment that this is a devolution measure . |
| 29 | In the spadefoot , the intense competition among males for females means that some over-anxious males do not wait for the females to get into the pond but instead waylay them on the way to the breeding ground ; the pair then arrive at the pond already in amplexus . |
| 30 | The audience , sparse and sad , do not call for an encore , but Mo and McNamara embark upon a lonely farewell tune just the same . |