Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb pp] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She had not pressed for a statement at Westminster out of respect to his family . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The kind of music she had not heard for a long time . |
| 5 | The right of rejection is not given for an ordinary breach of warranty . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've not come for a drink . |
| 9 | Yet ironically , recent government policies have created a situation where more and more prisoners serving life and other long sentences have rather less to lose , for it has now been decreed that various categories of serious offender will not normally be considered for parole , or not considered for a very long time ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 10 | And it was not rebuilt for a hundred years . |
| 11 | The representatives from abroad were not expected for a further two or three days , but the three gentlemen referred to by his lordship as his ‘ home team ’ — two Foreign Office ministers attending very much ‘ off the record ’ and Sir David Cardinal — had come early to prepare the ground as thoroughly as possible . |
| 12 | I am sure their bodies were not designed for a two- or three-week period out of the fifty-two weeks in a year , however important that period may be . |
| 13 | This standard Planner is designed to give a general purpose catchment for each centre and is not designed for a specific retail sector . |
| 14 | The result was a vessel which was surprisingly fast and manoeuvrable for its size — few were more than twenty drem in length — but they were not designed for an extended sea journey , that was certain . |
| 15 | One of the president 's earliest and most loyal supporters on the Hill says , privately , that those among his constituents who , until 1992 , had not voted for a Democratic presidential candidate for 16 years think they have been tricked . |
| 16 | People asked exoneration from a mistake made by a group to which they belonged-the nation-not in individual innocence but in membership of a different and more immediate community that had acted well , a state that had not voted for a dishonest president . |
| 17 | The post-mortems continue but the truth is , that from an operational viewpoint , the 1,500V DC Woodhead line is not missed for a moment . |
| 18 | The functional characteristics of these two strong promoters suggest that they are not optimized for a tight and stable RNA polymerase binding . |
| 19 | She was not prepared for a very similar question being thrown at her . |
| 20 | This has not made for a smoothly running society , whose members all feel part of a common enterprise . |
| 21 | But man is not made for a solitary , self-sufficient existence . |
| 22 | No , they 're not made for a tall man er , you know my |
| 23 | Lepine was not cremated for a few days yet , until after the despatch of a couple of his victims also being tended to at the Côte-Des-Neiges cemetery , opposite the mountain , alongside the University of Montreal , where Marc Lepine joined his victims in the silence at the centre . |
| 24 | Katarina was Rizzi 's girl , not destined for a society marriage after all . |
| 25 | The chub take slugs absolutely savagely , as though they have not fed for a week and their very lives depend on seizing that particular specimen . |
| 26 | He may have been joking , but his fatalistic sentiment was in the sane vein as a cruel remark made as Davies 's men departed in triumph : ‘ We understood Eastbourne were the only team who have not applied for a postal vote in the General Election . ’ |
| 27 | The father had not applied for a Medjay to guard his house , giving as his reason that he had efficient men of his own to do the job . |
| 28 | I remember him saying that the person in the anecdote had to remain anonymous since it was still not done for a woman to confess she enjoyed promiscuous , recreational sex . |
| 29 | Although they discovered they had hardly a single taste in common , he was nonetheless a witty and amusing host and she found herself laughing in a way she had not done for a considerable time . |
| 30 | There was a flicker of response in them which Brian had not seen for a very long time . |