Example sentences of "[vb mod] not [vb infin] [adv] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of particular relevance is the fact that it may not allow sufficiently for the diseconomies of a single-person household . |
| 2 | Their relationship with the organisation is likely to be transient they are brought in for a particular event and might or might not work again for the same organisation . |
| 3 | The approaching host could not head directly for the town because of the suddenly-widening river-mouth , having to swing off somewhat to the left , westwards , to reach the Spittal or Town ford , the nearest crossing , whose natural shallows had been improved by an underwater causeway of stone slabs . |
| 4 | You are surprised that the Council could not do more for the World . |
| 5 | I was surprised that the Council could not do more for the World . |
| 6 | ‘ Why , here 's my mother home at last , ’ he said , and came smiling to meet her , putting forth the child by the hand to her , a little clumsily because he could not see well for the tears in his eyes . |
| 7 | Now , by early spring 1837 , Darwin had decided that such purely adaptational explanations could not account adequately for the timing and placing of either the extinctions of old species or the origins of new ones . |
| 8 | Although Saussure claims the arbitrary and differential qualities of language as ‘ a priori ’ they need not appear so for the user . |
| 9 | POMEROY social security office in Tyrone will not open today for the first scheduled signing-on since the IRA attack on a fraud squad investigator a fortnight ago . |
| 10 | Without such essential information we can not plan responsibly for the future . |