Example sentences of "[vb mod] [not/n't] [verb] [pron] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The notion which lies behind it is that where there is a moral duty to speak out , speakers should not hold their tongues for fear of writs . |
| 2 | In an old-style full committal hearing , Coun Garvey 's solicitor James Watson claimed the incident was accidental and said Teesside Magistrates Court should not commit his client for trial . |
| 3 | Lord Greene M.R. stressed that the court should not substitute its view for that of the corporation , and then proceeded to examine what the term unreasonableness meant in this context . |
| 4 | The court accepted that it should not substitute its judgment for that of the agency . |
| 5 | Do n't you look back , Julia ; must n't spoil your appetite for views of Florence . ’ |
| 6 | Sport that invokes excessive emotion , especially anger and aggression , may not suit our need for balance and peace of mind , and this can be destructive to our striving for harmony . |
| 7 | His own party has its doubts ; congressional Democrats may not accept his plans for cutting the deficit . |
| 8 | If you have had heart attacks in the past you might not pass your medical for flying . |
| 9 | In a test case of 1887 the Home Office ruled that vigilance associations could not recover their costs for prosecutions from government funds.95 Out of the NVA 's annual income of two thousand pounds , half was spent on legal work . |
| 10 | From a traditional Labour background , my mother rejected the politics of solidarity and communality , always voted Conservative , for the left could not embody her desire for things to be really fair , for a full skirt that took twenty yards of cloth , for a half-timbered cottage in the country , for the prince who did not come . |
| 11 | With England running in four tries past the static Springbok forwards , Botha could not hide his contempt for the country 's administrators . |
| 12 | Hyacinth , who could not catch her breath for excitement , found herself in the arms of the Prime Minister . |
| 13 | ACTOR Woody Allen was heartbroken last night after being told he could not see his children for Christmas . |
| 14 | WOODY ALLEN went shopping yesterday after a judge told him he could not see his children for Christmas but could send them presents . |
| 15 | We were due at Chauk , an old field town , next day and Captain Tizzard advised me to take Rachel to the hospital there , but warned me that he could not delay his sailing for more than a few hours . |
| 16 | But precisely because Edward I could not take their consent for granted and in his later years preferred to tap the clergy 's wealth instead by mandatory papal levies , the survival and role of an independent clerical body for the gathering of taxation remained uncertain at his death . |
| 17 | Tess could not accept his reasons for not going . |
| 18 | Sally-Anne Tunstall , beloved daughter of Senator Jared Tunstall , arguably the richest man in the USA , and his dear wife Mary , niece of Orrin Tunstall , the American ambassador , society beauty , heiress , spoiled child of fortune , who had once thought that the world was her ball to play with , sat on her bed in an East End attic , dressed in her skivvy 's clothing , grieving because she could not consummate her love for a poor doctor who had renounced the world over which she had once reigned . |
| 19 | ‘ I could not fault my players for commitment . |
| 20 | I 'd not expect your favours for nothing . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I could n't move my fingers for cold . ’ |
| 22 | The rubber was stretching and stretching and not tightening enough , and I could n't move my hands for fear of it tearing the flesh off a finger or biting my nose off . |
| 23 | That may be the norm , but , of course , there is also the abnorm when things go wrong , when the fire gets out of control , when , perhaps , the fire brigade has been over worked , or could n't find their way for cigarette smoke , or for all that saturated fat that clogged up the wheels of their tenders . |
| 24 | He had understood her feelings for Andrew ; he could n't comprehend her reasons for marrying Lovat . |
| 25 | Others who are aware of these feelings dare not touch their children for fear of going too far and seriously hurting them . |
| 26 | Sometimes he would not leave his room for days on end . |
| 27 | Zander have no problems sorting out live baits in coloured water in which I would not fancy my chances for pike using that method . |
| 28 | What woman , in fact , however firm her beliefs , would not sacrifice her religion for her children ? |
| 29 | Main 's removal at the instigation of Cunningham 's enemies , and the appointment shortly thereafter of Cunnan to act in his place , had , as Provost Cunningham remarked , made ‘ a very great noise ’ , and by providing this evidence of their influence , the Haldane party could argue plausibly that all of the partisans of the Cunningham faction then in office would not retain their places for much longer . |
| 30 | Tiebout 's analysis was framed as a direct response to Samuelson 's ( 1954 ) conclusion that individuals would not reveal their preferences for public goods . |