Example sentences of "not [verb] a [noun sg] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , except by consent , the court can not make an order for possession against the tenant in the application ; so that if the tenant refuses to leave at the expiry date of his tenancy , the landlord will be compelled to take fresh proceedings against him . |
| 2 | A paper bag is best as you do not need a nozzle for flooding , and a hole can be snipped into the base of the paper cone at the last minute . |
| 3 | Where a child has sufficient understanding to make an informed decision , a court can not include a requirement for examination unless satisfied that he consents ( para 4(4) ( a ) ) . |
| 4 | Truelove and Witt 's criteria were originally developed to classify acute disease attacks and therefore do not include a category for remission . |
| 5 | Whichever he sues , he can not include a claim for damage done to the component or to the larger item which was supplied with the component comprised in it . |
| 6 | Consequently , these results do not exclude a role for PYY in the mediation of the ileal brake mechanism . |
| 7 | But a spokesman said that even if the Foundation decided not to open a clinic for sex offenders , work still needed to be done on the building . |
| 8 | The Children Act provides a structure for working within them ; but it does not provide a base for practice . |
| 9 | If she could not provide a remedy for life 's major troubles , she accepted a way round . |
| 10 | In a telling phrase Lord Scarman argued : ‘ The social conditions in Brixton do not provide an excuse for disorder . |
| 11 | The 40 per cent rule was introduced to make sure that the EBRD did not become a prop for state industries , but rather helped to build market economies . |
| 12 | However , it is important that after-care does not become a substitute for attendance at meetings of the Anonymous Fellowships or for actually working the suggested 12 Steps of recovery or for establishing a continuing relationship with a sponsor . |
| 13 | Now I would not ignore hunches , insight or occasional flashes of brilliance that can come from anybody , as long as they do not become a substitute for objectivity and professionalism . |
| 14 | Cos she said I 'm not paying a fortune for stuff that I wo n't wear afterwards . |
| 15 | It need not be if the authorities do not acknowledge a responsibility for control of inflation or if they believe that exchange rates ( just like changes in wage rates , or indirect taxes ) do not influence inflation but rather have their effect on relative prices . |
| 16 | So Rediffusion engineers do not see a future for monomode fibre except for trunk lines . |
| 17 | One agreement stipulated that provision of enhanced responsibility and autonomy with a view to job enrichment " would not constitute a basis for job upgrading " . |
| 18 | These issues will not be pursued further here , however , since in addition to the limitation of the duty to cases of insolvency or near-insolvency , the authorities do not suggest a need for behaviour at variance with the demands of profit maximisation . |
| 19 | There was nothing incongruous about the fact that the headmistress , Zoe Neill , was incapable of uttering a sentence which did not contain a word for excrement or a word for copulation . |
| 20 | They applied for judicial review of the Secretary of State 's decisions and sought orders of certiorari to quash those decisions and declarations that the Secretary of State could not set a period for retribution and deterrence for a mandatory life sentence greater than that recommended by the judiciary , that he was required to tell the applicants the period recommended by the judiciary , and if he departed from it his reasons for so doing , and that the applicants were entitled to be given the opportunity to make representations to the Secretary of State before he determined the period and for that purpose to be told of any information upon which the Secretary of State would act which was not in the applicant 's possession . |
| 21 | They did not demand a search for set words ; they demanded instead that a disposition be scrutinized to see if it satisfied the law of trusts ( the principles of benefit and intention were the minimal requirements ) . |
| 22 | Those whose gifts and tastes lie in a certain direction — people who do not have a head for mathematics — may well have been influenced by this in an early career choice . |
| 23 | He had been fond of his uncle , Thomas had been a bluff hearty man but unfortunately he did not have a head for business . |
| 24 | The HRD practitioner might want to cite examples from his or her own experience of the fact that ‘ quick-fix ’ changes tend to be just that — first-aid treatments that do not have a base for perpetuation . |
| 25 | In the context of the May 1990 preliminary talks between the African National Congress ( ANC ) and the government [ see p. 37440 ] , two other notable encounters between the nationalist movement and the white establishment occurred in the same month : ( i ) on May 23 the ANC met liberal representatives of the business community in Johannesburg , during which ANC deputy president Nelson Mandela , in what was seen as an attempt to reassure investors , declared that the ANC did not have a blueprint for nationalization ; at the conclusion of the conference , with the former chairman of the company Anglo American , Gavin Relly , he emphasized the need to abolish institutionalized inequalities and to redistribute resources equally ; and ( ii ) on May 24 fighters from the ANC 's armed wing and members of the ANC national executive committee ( NEC ) met with retired and serving officers of the South African Defence Force ( SADF ) , military conscripts and , among others , members of the End Conscription Campaign at a conference in Lusaka , the Zambian capital ; these discussions included the structure and role of a post-apartheid defence force . |
| 26 | So we can not have a strategy for teacher development any more than a teacher can have a strategy for child development . |
| 27 | I can see no basis in principle for holding that a municipal corporation , empowered by statute to sue in its corporate name , can not maintain an action for libel . |
| 28 | I would allow this appeal and in answer to the first question raised by the preliminary point of law declare that the council can not maintain an action for libel for any words which reflect upon it as the county council for Derbyshire in relation to its governmental and administrative functions in Derbyshire , including its statutory responsibility for the investment and control of the superannuation fund . |
| 29 | ‘ although a corporation can not maintain an action for libel in respect of anything reflecting upon them personally , yet they can maintain an action for a libel reflecting on the management of their trade or business , and this without alleging or proving special damage . |
| 30 | We think that such a duty is imposed by law ; and on consideration of the Statute of Elizabeth , l and of the cases which have been decided on this subject , we are all of the opinion that a party can not maintain an action for compensation for loss of time in attending a trial as a witness . |