Example sentences of "[vb mod] [not/n't] [verb] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A process so hedged about with medical mystery and old wives ' tales that no man was allowed to share in it now became an experience he must not miss for the world . |
| 2 | You must not look for the book until you reach the shelf carrying its class number . |
| 3 | Therefore there was no reason why volenti should not succeed for the employer . |
| 4 | The King was , however , also King of his Dominions and it had been provided by the Statute of Westminster 1931 , s.4 , that Parliament should not legislate for the Dominions ( defined as Australia , Canada , the Irish Free State , Newfoundland , New Zealand and the Union of South Africa ) except at the request of and with the consent of the Dominion concerned . |
| 5 | Israel wo n't and should n't pay for the freedom of Kuwait |
| 6 | They may not qualify for the names ‘ colonisers ’ or ‘ pioneers ’ , but great numbers of people have gone abroad from the county during this century . |
| 7 | As Family Development Nurses , we are still working within a system which is based on uniform structures and procedures which may not allow for the flexibility of approach , or the necessary degree of autonomy which is needed , to be always relevant to the needs of each individual or family . |
| 8 | I would have been quite happy just to have been on the bench for the entire championship but , as it turned out , I had another big incentive in that as Gary might not play for the rest of the Five Nations there would be four internationals available if I proved good enough ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ You 'll not stay for the wedding ? |
| 10 | Cynthia could not speak for the sobs that now came from her throat . |
| 11 | His mouth was too dry to speak but he could not reach for the water now . |
| 12 | The form used was complicated but could not compensate for the deficiencies of information about a population that was still highly mobile and still undergoing the stresses of war . |
| 13 | These honours could not compensate for the misery of his diocesan life . |
| 14 | He could not lecture for the Archbishop of Canterbury because he was already committed to lecture for the Archbishop of York . |
| 15 | it was held that the Food Controller could not charge for the licence . |
| 16 | Hall has a four-shot buffer after her round of 75 while Edmond , who could not play for the Essex ladies in county week due to a wrist injury , is also well-placed after a 77 . |
| 17 | This specific and complex test was required , the experts say , because the Cusiana rock is quite variable , a condition that could not allow for the application of routine technology to asses well productivity . |
| 18 | He could not plan for the way of the wind , that was luck , but for the rest he had everything at his finger-ends . |
| 19 | ‘ He was really looking forward to being a father and could not wait for the birth . |
| 20 | Since the scale was twenty-three miles to an inch , it was possible that a deviation of two or three miles would not be marked , but that could not account for the tarmac . |
| 21 | Although there is a slight reduction in the number of cells per well over the culture period this could not account for the reduction in EGF binding seen . |
| 22 | Although the timescale of artificial selection experiments means that new mutations can contribute to the responses , in the above experiments accumulation of partially recessive mutations could not account for the decline in early performance , because the drop persisted in crosses between ‘ old ’ lines . |
| 23 | Dalgliesh felt impatient for the arrival of the forensic biologist , although he knew he could n't hope for the answer , not yet . |
| 24 | The pause after the first shot making sure they 'd killed him which is n't easy to do with a heart shot but they could n't go for the head because the sight line would n't fit with shooting at the President 's head — ’ |
| 25 | We could n't claim to be anything else ; we could n't speak for the families of Terry Waite or Brian Keenan . |
| 26 | The they used to the Non-conformists whether or not I could n't speak for the Church of England but er there 'd be a lot go you know i in the evening there 'd be several hundred at every one of these places , and there was , there 'd be , ooh four or five Non=conformist places in in . |
| 27 | Emma closed her eyes but for the moment she could n't answer for the throbbing in her throat . |
| 28 | Twice before she 'd had proposals of marriage and had rejected them because she could n't feel for the men they came from . |
| 29 | She could n't afford to run any risks , and there was certainly something mysterious about David Arrowsmith , something she could n't identify for the moment : so she did n't trust him . |
| 30 | great , I could n't wait For the life of Mrs |