Example sentences of "do [not/n't] [verb] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , I do not pretend for one moment that children should not be taught to add , subtract , read and think logically . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | About half of all part-timers earn below the limit , and therefore do not exist for national insurance purposes . |
| 4 | The evaluation runs mentioned above indicate that the results with mid-class representations do not hold for connected speech . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | These films do not make for easy viewing . |
| 7 | Theories do not make for liberating music . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Ideally , they do not wish for any interaction at all with the other kinds of superhuman beings . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This , however , is a misleading picture because many unemployed married women do not register with the employment exchanges because they do not qualify for any benefit . |
| 13 | Gifts made within three years of death do not qualify for any relief and the tax will have to be paid in full . |
| 14 | Age-related widows ' pension is for younger widows , who do not qualify for full rate . |
| 15 | Please note that West Somerset Railway Association members ' concessions do not apply for this event , and tickets do not give free travel . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | they do not provide for flexible combination as is demanded by highly specific subjects ; |
| 18 | Nevertheless , I do not believe for one moment — I made this point on enough occasions to the hon. Member for Antrim , East ( Mr. Beggs ) — that , if we had not given potential investors the opportunity to buy a power station that could be converted to gas , there would have been much hope of bringing a gas pipeline to Northern Ireland . |
| 19 | What is more , these estimates assume a well-maintained canal and do not allow for excessive leakage . |
| 20 | Large scale , site-specific projects which do not allow for secondary sale are hardly ever considered to be a worthwhile investment . |
| 21 | Even if soil temperature is generally found to have a minimal influence on root mortality , the fact that rates of fine root turnover can vary substantially among virtually identical ecosystems needs to be reconciled with current knowledge and models of below-ground processes that do not account for this phenomenon . |
| 22 | I do n't go for that child , he 's too big man . |
| 23 | I 'm glad we do n't go for that sort of tree actually . |
| 24 | ‘ Women are a great idea , ’ Crawford had said the previous year , ‘ but I do n't go for this marriage bit . |
| 25 | You do n't think for one minute I 'm going to eat the filth I give to you ? |
| 26 | I 'm going to investigate , see if I ca n't do a conv I do n't think for one minute I will but it 's possible do a conversion er into erm the box type . |
| 27 | I do n't think for one minute that there are teachers who are drunk in charge of children in the classroom . |
| 28 | I do n't suppose for one minute that it is that simple but could you please advise me ? |
| 29 | I do n't suppose for one moment she has given a thought to what life might be like if she had to ‘ make do ’ married to someone who was n't too well off . |
| 30 | I do n't suppose for one moment that man fully understood the import of what he was saying . |