Example sentences of "not [vb infin] for the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sufficient funds did not exist for the fast rehabilitation of the railways , for the immediate implementation of mass education . |
| 2 | A warning message will be displayed if it is a development version , or if that version does not exist for the given Product package at this time . |
| 3 | Indeed , I remember warning her , half in joke , half in earnest , that I could not answer for the new Government lasting more than six weeks . |
| 4 | Elderly people require a lot of time and effort on a GP 's part , the GP gets extra money for that but it may not compensate for the extra work . ’ |
| 5 | They could not afford to buy a horse , and although the richer peasants were more heavily taxed , this did not compensate for the wide difference in equipment , which was not taxed . |
| 6 | Such a facility would normally apply to a physically discrete or contained site ( e.g. a single pasture , groups of pastures , a wetland separated from other land ) in order that livestock from another ownership or section of land could not substitute for the agreed reduction . |
| 7 | The development of professional competence however paramountly desirable can not substitute for the academic element in language courses . |
| 8 | The reduced-rate does not count for the basic pension . |
| 9 | Jaqueline had retired from her job early to care for her 69-year-old mother with senile dementia , and was outraged to find that because she had a husband she did not qualify for the invalid care allowance . |
| 10 | Like the golfer who hits his one decent shot on the eighteenth hole and can not wait for the following weekend 's game , I felt light of heart with the warm promise of another evening in the company of the delightful Sally Drayton . |
| 11 | He can not wait for the proposed exchange of animals . |
| 12 | I do not speak for the Philippine health movement , rather these are my attempts to understand how both small-scale local initiatives and a national effort can alter the historical process which to date has left the majority of the 60 million Filipino people living in dire poverty in a land of plenty . |
| 13 | Accordingly , the draftsman should not provide for the usual disregard of tenant 's improvements in the valuation formula . |
| 14 | David Boren , the Oklahoma Democrat who holds the swing vote on the committee , has already made it clear that he will not vote for the current package , dubbing it ‘ Stimulus 2 ’ , a reference to Mr Clinton 's ill-fated emergency spending package . |
| 15 | Catholics , however , did not vote for the Unionist Party . |
| 16 | I said to myself I will not vote for the Conservative party again . |
| 17 | This is so stupid that you might wonder why the employers did not plump for the other alternative — until you come to look at it ! |
| 18 | Erm , and the reason for this , of course , is that , as I said , natural selection selects for the reproductive success of individuals , it does not select for the reproductive success of the group . |
| 19 | While the way in which sexual relations are conducted obviously varies considerably from individual to individual and from zone to zone , generally speaking , there is an attempt to maintain a fairly strict control in the military camps , although this does not apply for the civilian population , nor should it be regarded as an indication of future attitudes . |
| 20 | Ransom did not apply for the permanent job at financially-troubled Dudley — one of the lowest spending metropolitan authorities on social services . |
| 21 | Arnold Toynbee once argued that it is the ‘ barbaric ’ vital periphery that finally topples a declining civilization , but this maxim does not hold for the Russian Revolution . |
| 22 | The scale and tone of the little treatise on mixed life does not allow for the complex work and breadth of thinking such definitions would entail . |
| 23 | In any case , at that moment his father 's circumstances would probably not allow for the added burden of a son 's university education . |
| 24 | So they gave excuses of shortage of time or involvement in other activities to explain why they did not register for the rural party cell . |
| 25 | Tyroglyphus , harmless to the vine but a deadly enemy of Phylloxera vastatrix , was imported in 1873 in an attempt to kill off the pest ; unfortunately , however , unlike phylloxera , Tyroglyphus did not care for the European climate and failed to settle . |
| 26 | Some companies advertise kit , knowing that stocks are low and may not last for the full life of the ad . |
| 27 | Some companies advertise kit , knowing full well that stocks are low and may not last for the full life of the ad . |
| 28 | The knock on the head alone could not account for the glazed look in her eyes . |
| 29 | Culture conflict between the British and Sri Lankans over the boundaries of crime , concepts of status and appropriate punishments was real , but it did not account for the general approach to the courts discussed earlier in this chapter . |
| 30 | However , Willie was certain that this could not account for the strange noise , so he continued , only to find the noise started again even louder . |