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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Like Audubon , Lear did not plan for accompanying text : this was to be a purely pictorial study of a single species . |
| 5 | ‘ It was done from my section and I am afraid I did not ask for sufficient permission . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They did not wait for blind Pew , who tried to follow them , tapping wildly with his stick . |
| 9 | This might explain why they did not attend for clinical review . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | About half of all part-timers earn below the limit , and therefore do not exist for national insurance purposes . |
| 13 | The evaluation runs mentioned above indicate that the results with mid-class representations do not hold for connected speech . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | These films do not make for easy viewing . |
| 16 | Theories do not make for liberating music . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | At the second Special General Meeting held at Keele University on September 12th , the proposal to create a register of Dormant Members for members who cease active participation of funeral or embalming work but do not qualify for Retired Membership status was rejected . |
| 20 | Age-related widows ' pension is for younger widows , who do not qualify for full rate . |
| 21 | The principal weakness of the rescission remedy and the statutory alternative of damages in lieu of rescission , is that they do not provide for consequential loss , for example , profits on resale . |
| 22 | they do not provide for flexible combination as is demanded by highly specific subjects ; |
| 23 | What is more , these estimates assume a well-maintained canal and do not allow for excessive leakage . |
| 24 | Large scale , site-specific projects which do not allow for secondary sale are hardly ever considered to be a worthwhile investment . |
| 25 | Of course , only the bad stories are told ; obviously , the good ones do n't make for good copy . |
| 26 | The slogans of the main parties could be summed up as ‘ Do n't vote for the other party ’ ; and the only person rising in the polls was the leader of the Liberal Democrats , whose message could be summed up as ‘ Do n't vote for negative campaigning ’ . |
| 27 | Because so many of the people who , so many people at the moment feel I think that they , they have very little real influence , and that 's why people do n't turn up , it 's why people do n't vote for local government . |
| 28 | Do n't look for orchestral refinement or subtlety of recording in the Mravinsky reissue . |
| 29 | Still , one can see him becoming more loath to accept the evil in the good : and while this is charitable , it does not make for powerful story . |
| 30 | Without following Jakobson 's analysis in detail — it does not make for easy reading — I shall simply give examples of the sort of relationship he identifies under each of these headings . |