Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [vb infin] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | His distribution contract did not expressly provide for him to be personally involved in the distribution although his personal involvement was appreciated . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It need hardly be added that the examiner always wants reasons and authorities for the answer , even though he does not expressly ask for them . |
| 4 | Although reduced feed consumption and diarrhoea affect liveweight gain they do not wholly account for the loss in production . |
| 5 | If the period of historic relevance is measured in hundreds of years , then even periodic recopying and migration to new generations of hardware will not effectively provide for the preservation of information long enough to meet historians ’ long-term needs . |
| 6 | Vial did not apparently introduce for some time any regular system of instruction which would have concentrated the labours of the students . |
| 7 | A lord taking over a forfeited estate could not entirely take for granted the good will of the affinity , at least in the short term . |
| 8 | A lord taking over a forfeited estate could not entirely take for granted the good will of the affinity , at least in the short term . |
| 9 | This disjunctive , unfinished quality challenges readers to establish an order which the text does not entirely provide for them . |
| 10 | He does not greatly care for the dark purplish bathroom suite ( ‘ Damson ’ , the estate agent 's brochure had called the shade ) but it had been one of the things that attracted Marjorie when they bought the house two years ago — the bathroom , with its kidney-shaped handbasin and goldplated taps and sunken bath and streamlined loo and bidet . |
| 11 | ‘ He does not greatly care for it , but I need its solitude if I am to accomplish what I am about . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I know you do not greatly care for her , Edwin . |
| 13 | But statistics do not necessarily make for good intelligence . |
| 14 | Good science does not necessarily make for good philosophy . |
| 15 | Hand-made panels do not necessarily make for better cars . |
| 16 | Hand-beating an aluminium panel does not necessarily make for a better car , confers no empirically measurable added value : nonetheless , it is the hand-wroughtness of Aston Martins that make otherwise sensible men write out cheques for £120,000 . |
| 17 | THERE was an article in The Times the other day which said that good spelling did not necessarily make for good writing . |
| 18 | Although the courts do have wide powers to re-allocate property and can require an ex-husband to take out life assurance , such arrangements do not necessarily compensate for the loss of an index-linked widow 's pension in old age or a lump sum and widow 's pension payable on a husband 's death in service . |
| 19 | In later chapters we shall prove several results of the above type where the symbols used will not necessarily stand for integers . |
| 20 | It does not necessarily call for an ethical content , so facts are often distorted or falsified for self-interest . |
| 21 | This would not necessarily occur for the risk ratings since these may have been initially quite high because of the drivers ’ unfamiliarity with the car when giving the first ratings . |
| 22 | … the postmodernist decision that the Author is dead , and subjective agency along with him , does not necessarily work for women and prematurely forecloses the question of identity for them . |
| 23 | The transnational capitalist class in the Third World will undoubtedly be connected with foreign TNCs , though its members will not necessarily work for them . |
| 24 | Richard Wright 's study suggests that whilst police do not necessarily look for evidence of extreme violence , they do seek evidence of some violence or threat . |
| 25 | Diana did not especially care for either of those activities and she did not ride , which kept the rest of the family amused . |
| 26 | It was asked whether the nurses could claim thirds of the usufruct of the land on the basis of a trust , although the curator , whom he could not rightly appoint for the foster-child , was not admitted . |
| 27 | The government does not much care for it . |
| 28 | Companies do not much care for the interventionist policies of Mitterrand 's government , including its decision to nationalise all the large IT companies . |
| 29 | Ivy , who did not much care for books about ‘ Abroad ’ — though if you sent her one she would say politely that it would be ‘ a companion ’ — was pleased to have a novel set in England and in the past . |
| 30 | If you are a person of fastidious intellectual taste you will not much care for the comic-strip account given in the preceding paragraph . |