Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just it was a beautiful day , so I said why not stay for an hour , so we got out , out , in , so we , as it is , , you know we just went round a little bit , and it 's very tidy and nice , biscuits . |
| 2 | The proposal was that His Majesty would invite certain individuals as individuals to take upon their shoulders the burden of carrying on the Government and Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Samuel ( sic ) had stated that they were prepared to act accordingly … the Administration would not exist for a period longer than was necessary to dispose of the emergency , and when that purpose was achieved the political parties would resume their respective positions . |
| 3 | I left the hotel early and in pleasant sunshine , wearing a light jacket and bow tie , but alas did not bargain for a sudden change in the weather . |
| 4 | I do not think for a moment that the Letter of Aristeas should be taken as a Festal Scroll , something like the Book of Esther , to be read in the Alexandrian synagogues every year on the day on which ( as we know from Philo ) the Alexandrian Jews commemorated the translation ( De vita Mosis 2.41 ) . |
| 5 | On scrutinising the notes of the 80 patients not referred for a specialist opinion we concluded that a nephrological opinion might have helped management in 17 cases . |
| 6 | Needless to say , this attitude did not make for a good marriage . |
| 7 | If workers are given jobs for life or if their wages are linked to age and seniority does this not make for a much less flexible labour market ? |
| 8 | Their success at the game did not make for an easy relationship , though . |
| 9 | Oliver wondered why Angelina was not clamouring for a new vote in order to support her fiancé and decided that this was some further infamous plan on her part . |
| 10 | She had not pressed for a statement at Westminster out of respect to his family . |
| 11 | Not painted for a specific location and comprising canvases of different dimensions , the frieze was a pool of images from which Munch made withdrawals for sale , replacing the pictures which he had plundered with new versions of the same composition . |
| 12 | Nenna did not answer for a second , and Tilda bellowed : |
| 13 | Taken by surprise , she could not answer for a moment and than said angrily , ‘ If you knew , why did n't you say something before ? ’ |
| 14 | The kind of music she had not heard for a long time . |
| 15 | ‘ The whole point of this afternoon was to advertise my company , not to go for a jaunt along the river . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I 'll be very disappointed if I 'm not competing for a place in the first one-day international on January 16 . |
| 17 | The right of rejection is not given for an ordinary breach of warranty . |
| 18 | I am not suggesting for a moment that this kind of problem can be resolved merely by putting more resources in , but at the same time there is need to spend more money , perhaps . |
| 19 | I 'm not suggesting for a moment it does n't cross my mind nor has Mr suggested that there has been any er deliberate failures to disclose something which was thought was , which you 've got and was thought relevant , but it , things do turn out to be potentially relevant in the course of the court appearance |
| 20 | I 'm not suggesting for a moment that university people are n't as integrated as anyone else . |
| 21 | If the resist is not exposed for a long enough period , it will not develop fully and so some traces will remain on the board . |
| 22 | A tea bush requires constant attention : if not plucked for a year it can take two years to return to normal ; if bushes have to be uprooted , new ones take seven years to come into production . |
| 23 | We could not undress for a week in case of a submarine attack , and you all got a little cross , I remember . |
| 24 | The article ended : ‘ The prince 's image has been badly damaged and statesman-like behaviour can not compensate for a young wife throwing herself downstairs in an attempted suicide while her husband strides to go out riding . |
| 25 | The superb frescoes , concealed from sight by Muslim prejudice for nearly five hundred years , were again on view , but they did not compensate for a profound sense of desecration . |
| 26 | Although the syntactic filter could no doubt be improved , it probably could not compensate for a 20,000 word lexicon and/or poorer acoustic-phonetic discrimination . |
| 27 | If such cells develop as they do because they contain only some of the genes — for example , just the genes for being a gut cell — then a nucleus from such a cell could not substitute for an egg nucleus . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've not come for a drink . |
| 29 | I doubted not that they were law officers , but did not linger for a second look , being already at the casement windows into the side garden . |
| 30 | The Republic 's Foreign Minister Dick Spring yesterday insisted that Dublin was not pressing for a US envoy ‘ for the present ’ . |