Example sentences of "not [be] [verb] for [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It turned out that he was a heavy drinker and smoker , who had not been running for about the last 20 years . |
| 2 | Later , when they had not been paid for by the defendant , the plaintiff brought an action for payment of the sum due against the defendant . |
| 3 | It may be argued that because the affective domain deals with qualitative differences it can not be planned for in the same systematic way that is applied to knowledge , and that it is best dealt with by providing suitable models , and by discussion when problems and student needs arise . |
| 4 | Some members of the Committee moved that the school stay open , on the grounds that short-term financial gain would not be compensated for by the long-term loss to the community . |
| 5 | Up to 1980 the supplementary benefit regulations permitted claimants in residential homes who could not be catered for by the local authority an amount sufficient to meet reasonable board and lodging charges in the area . |
| 6 | We have seen how our feeling that a particular stretch of language in some way hangs together , or has unity , ( that it is , in other words , discourse ) , can not be accounted for in the same way as our feeling for the acceptability of a sentence . |
| 7 | Despite Government counter-claims that this increase is due to 1986 changes in definitions of accidents from minor to major and fatal categories , all the increases can not be accounted for by the redefinition . |
| 8 | Importantly , the difference in concordance rates could not be accounted for by the different concordance rates for alcoholism alone . |
| 9 | Two peptide sequences could not be accounted for from the cDNA sequence . |
| 10 | If a large increase could not be paid for by the National Coal Board then the government should meet it . |
| 11 | File management systems can and should be directed to ensuring that no work is done that will not be paid for by the Legal Aid Board . |
| 12 | Edward would come and live on Grace , which would save the rent he was paying on his rooms at present ; the girls , once they were not being prayed for at the grotto , would agree to go back to the nuns ; and with Tilda at school she could go out herself and look for a job . |
| 13 | It is not being catered for within the health service . |