Example sentences of "do [not/n't] [verb] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And even that did not make for encouraging listening . |
| 2 | Barton did not care for Indian food and ate sparingly from the vegetarian buffet . |
| 3 | Biddy did not speak for some time , and stood considering them in a way that made them all feel about half their usual size . |
| 4 | Sesostris did not speak for some time . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , we did not anticipate the importance of observer bias , and we did not arrange for third party blinded observation . |
| 6 | The programme was devised in response to feedback from the previous term 's courses on assertiveness and time management , which suggested that one day courses did not allow for adequate reflection on the issues , practice or follow up discussion . |
| 7 | Like Audubon , Lear did not plan for accompanying text : this was to be a purely pictorial study of a single species . |
| 8 | However , 1792 did not establish for all time antislavery as a movement of popular mobilisation demonstrated in the use of general public meetings . |
| 9 | His leader did not believe for one moment the protestations of innocence . |
| 10 | First , it was not an annual report but a one-off ; secondly , it did not call for more funding — |
| 11 | In 1990 and 1991 , it did not apply for any money from the top slice programme — for enveloping , for group repair and area renewal , for the homelessness reserve , for the reserve for private or defective dwellings or for priority estates . |
| 12 | ‘ It was done from my section and I am afraid I did not ask for sufficient permission . |
| 13 | I did not ask for more money — I was in Bayreuth at the time . ’ |
| 14 | The opportunities of individual patronage may have been reduced , but few major writers from the time of Gay and Swift to that of George Crabbe did not look for such patronage or shape some composition toward the expectations of a patron . |
| 15 | It would be easy to dismiss ‘ softing ’ as an esoteric corner of the stock market which could be ignored , if it did not account for one deal in every six . |
| 16 | In the same issue of the Lancet , Astra replied that Glaxo 's new test was scientifically unsound because it did not account for normal cell division ( which would also stimulate DNA synthesis ) . |
| 17 | In the event , therefore , the Act did not provide for large-scale planning and redevelopment , but stimulated further direction towards slum clearance by extending new forms of subsidy directed to the rehousing of overcrowded families . |
| 18 | They did not wait for blind Pew , who tried to follow them , tapping wildly with his stick . |
| 19 | This might explain why they did not attend for clinical review . |
| 20 | As the eminent nursing historian Monica E. Baly points out , in the nineteenth century sense nursing did not qualify for professional status : ‘ … nurses were not independent practitioners and indeed , the insistence on obedience was anti-ethical to independence and self-sufficiency ’ . |
| 21 | Now , I do not pretend for one moment that children should not be taught to add , subtract , read and think logically . |
| 22 | Carol , who has learned to manage her meagre budget as carefully as any accountant , exemplifies the deeper problem of Easterhouse behind the unemployment , said to be 30 per cent , but much higher when the unemployed 16- to 18-year-olds , those on invalidity benefit and people who do not register for non-existent work are taken into account . |
| 23 | About half of all part-timers earn below the limit , and therefore do not exist for national insurance purposes . |
| 24 | The evaluation runs mentioned above indicate that the results with mid-class representations do not hold for connected speech . |
| 25 | The Building Regulations themselves do not make for easy reading , but there are various guides designed to explain them and the DoE now produce a Manual to the Building Regulations . |
| 26 | These films do not make for easy viewing . |
| 27 | Theories do not make for liberating music . |
| 28 | The disconcerting ‘ first-disk ’ string sound may be down to miking difficulties ; likewise the booming timpani and overly forward woodwind , and these things do not make for comfortable listening . |
| 29 | Ideally , they do not wish for any interaction at all with the other kinds of superhuman beings . |
| 30 | The Civil Justice Review , on examining the arguments , recognised the need to assist people who do not qualify for legal aid funding , drew attention to the major advances that had been made in regulation policy so as probably to be able to control a contingency fee system and , on the basis of competition policy , considered whether it would be more desirable to devise more limited schemes under which lawyers would have a stake in the outcome of a case as an incentive . |