Example sentences of "not [be] [verb] for [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 Property remained the precondition of political rights , and Ireton 's argument at Putney that " liberty can not be provided for in a general sense , if property [ is to ] be preserved " ( p. 73 ) was accepted by the ruling property-owners as a necessary truth of politics .
2 Problems of a non-recurring and non-foreseeable nature can not be provided for in a book of rules and procedures .
3 Does it indicate that the meaning of an idiom can not be inferred from ( or , more precisely , can not be accounted for as a compositional function of ) the meanings the parts carry IN THAT EXPRESSION ?
4 The definition must be understood as stating that an idiom is an expression whose meaning can not be accounted for as a compositional function of the meanings its parts have when they are not parts of idioms .
5 The significant difference at 45 and 360 minutes postprandially between the results in the normal and these two morbidly obese subjects can not be accounted for by a difference in the urine output ( one way ANOVA , p>0.05 ) .
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