Example sentences of "do not [adv] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the Diet did not immediately call for offensive action against Russia , but it decided to do so when the tsar refused to negotiate on the basis of anything less than abject Polish submission . |
| 2 | The force with which the judges made their case for Second Empire can be explained by assuming that they felt that if they did not strongly press for this form of building , another , and less welcome style in their eyes , would be adopted . |
| 3 | Organised resistance to William in Scotland ceased , though the last clans did not formally submit for another 18 months . |
| 4 | THERE was an article in The Times the other day which said that good spelling did not necessarily make for good writing . |
| 5 | Diana did not especially care for either of those activities and she did not ride , which kept the rest of the family amused . |
| 6 | Vial did not apparently introduce for some time any regular system of instruction which would have concentrated the labours of the students . |
| 7 | American women , they learned , did not much care for murky colours but wanted bright yellows and apple greens , vibrant colours which were hardly used at all in Europe . |
| 8 | Although many of the larger integrated securities firms such as UBS Philips & Drew , Barclays de Zoete Wedd , Warburg Securities and Hoare Govett do not generally cater for private clients now , many other firms do , offering a whole range of services including advisory or discretionary fund management . |
| 9 | But statistics do not necessarily make for good intelligence . |
| 10 | Hand-made panels do not necessarily make for better cars . |
| 11 | This may be a source of embarrassment ; people do not usually meet for social or business purposes dressed in this way . |
| 12 | They hijack Englishness and do not really speak for most English people . |
| 13 | Until now , the museum has exhibited only 900 of the 32,000 works it actually owns , though 17,000 of these are drawings , videos and photographs which do not really qualify for permanent showing . |
| 14 | The wrongful sale of goods subject to a hire-purchase agreement will constitute a repudiation and hence vest a right to immediate possession in the finance company even though the agreement does not expressly provide for this . |
| 15 | However , the law does not normally allow for any order to be made which will directly affect pension entitlements ( see Cretney and Masson , 1990 , pp. 405–7 ) . |
| 16 | Good science does not necessarily make for good philosophy . |