Example sentences of "do [not/n't] [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Needless to say , this attitude did not make for a good marriage . |
| 2 | Their success at the game did not make for an easy relationship , though . |
| 3 | The Judaism of the Pharisees and Scribes did not care for the lost . |
| 4 | She did not care for the serious young men who toured the Home Office and the Treasury with her . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Most of them did not control for a possible confounding effect of H pylori infection . |
| 7 | From the 19 patients with reflux oesophagitis , one subject did not arrive for the second measurement and dropped out . |
| 8 | La Carlotta did not sing for the first hour . |
| 9 | But relations between the youngsters and their adult minders did not change for the better . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Susie did not reply for a long time . |
| 12 | Ray Parlour , having been caught heavily by former Gunner Kevin Richardson , did not return for the second half . |
| 13 | The superb frescoes , concealed from sight by Muslim prejudice for nearly five hundred years , were again on view , but they did not compensate for a profound sense of desecration . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She heaved out a great sigh and did not move for a full fifteen seconds : the sergeant watched them tick past , marked by the flick of the thin red hand of the electric clock on the wall . |
| 16 | The difficulty is most apparent when discussing the Renaissance since by hypostatising science and art as two separate and separable activities Kemp is framing a problem that did not exist for the historical actors . |
| 17 | Sufficient funds did not exist for the fast rehabilitation of the railways , for the immediate implementation of mass education . |
| 18 | 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 ! |
| 19 | Even if the king himself did not press for an early political role , others might well do so on his behalf as a way of strengthening their own position . |
| 20 | Even if the king himself did not press for an early political role , others might well do so on his behalf as a way of strengthening their own position . |
| 21 | He did not press for an immediate renewal of Anselm 's homage ; and William Giffard stopped calling himself bishop of Winchester . |
| 22 | Catholics , however , did not vote for the Unionist Party . |
| 23 | I left the hotel early and in pleasant sunshine , wearing a light jacket and bow tie , but alas did not bargain for a sudden change in the weather . |
| 24 | It is rubbish to think that , because Sheikh Mohammed and his brothers did not bid for a single horse at Newmarket last week , the racing game is about to die on its feet . |
| 25 | I doubted not that they were law officers , but did not linger for a second look , being already at the casement windows into the side garden . |
| 26 | Ransom did not apply for the permanent job at financially-troubled Dudley — one of the lowest spending metropolitan authorities on social services . |
| 27 | It is unlikely that the ( insignificantly ) lower incidence of hypoglycaemia with human insulin in our study was due to loss of awareness and therefore reduced detection of hypoglycaemia because the incidence of severe and biochemical hypoglycaemic episodes did not differ for the two insulin species on routine monitoring . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Second , steady loss , albeit at differing rates from the two populations , did not account for the observed pattern . |
| 30 | The agreement did not provide for a specific " quota of power " for the FMLN , an issue which had been a major sticking-point in negotiations . |