Example sentences of "[vb base] [not/n't] [vb infin] for [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | About half of all part-timers earn below the limit , and therefore do not exist for national insurance purposes . |
| 3 | The evaluation runs mentioned above indicate that the results with mid-class representations do not hold for connected speech . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | These films do not make for easy viewing . |
| 6 | Theories do not make for liberating music . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Age-related widows ' pension is for younger widows , who do not qualify for full rate . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | they do not provide for flexible combination as is demanded by highly specific subjects ; |
| 13 | What is more , these estimates assume a well-maintained canal and do not allow for excessive leakage . |
| 14 | Large scale , site-specific projects which do not allow for secondary sale are hardly ever considered to be a worthwhile investment . |
| 15 | Of course , only the bad stories are told ; obviously , the good ones do n't make for good copy . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | Because so many of the people who , so many people at the moment feel I think that they , they have very little real influence , and that 's why people do n't turn up , it 's why people do n't vote for local government . |
| 18 | Do n't look for orchestral refinement or subtlety of recording in the Mravinsky reissue . |