Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 'll not stay for the wedding ? |
| 2 | ‘ And now , knowing the truth , or as much as I 'm prepared to divulge , will you not stay for the wedding ? |
| 3 | Your talk will be the first item on the agenda you need not stay for the rest of the meeting unless you want to . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Sufficient funds did not exist for the fast rehabilitation of the railways , for the immediate implementation of mass education . |
| 7 | The difficulty is most apparent when discussing the Renaissance since by hypostatising science and art as two separate and separable activities Kemp is framing a problem that did not exist for the historical actors . |
| 8 | This general tendency in soil conservation evaluation derives from similar problems identified by critics of the existing approaches to agricultural research , namely the lack of a continuous outreach to and from research stations and farmers , and the conducting of programmes under conditions that do not exist for the farmer/pastoralist who is supposed to adopt them ( Biggs 1981 ) . |
| 9 | The heavy makeup melting even in the air-conditioning , the legless beggar who sleeps under the office porch and cleans their shoes in gratitude , the slums you can not observe because no roads go through the swamps and whose inhabitants do not exist for the State because the census officials can not reach them , the bomb-carriers serving as flower-pots , the boys selling themselves to the rich English ex-public schoolboys , the girls selling themselves to the fat German tourists , the police raping the boys and the girls they are protecting in the police-stations , the Committee officers boasting to Kate about the elegant jerk-offs in the massage parlours , their ever-decorative ever-bored wives boasting to Kate about their jewellery , the Thai girls saving up for eye and breast jobs , the luxury hotels where the high-class white whores hang out , the students shot by the military during a demonstration against the army regime , the girl students daring for the first time to stay out at night on the streets to picket , the crushing of strikes with bullets and beatings , the barring of political books in the Committee library , the anti-Communist adverts punctuating the Western films on TV . |
| 10 | Nietzsche wrote : " When I heard of the fires in Paris , I felt annihilated for some days and was overwhelmed by fears and doubts ; the whole academic ( wissenschaftlich ) , philosophical , artistic world seemed an absurdity , if a single day could wipe out the most glorious works of art , even whole periods of art ; I clung with earnest conviction to the metaphysical value of art , which can not exist for the sake of poor human beings , but has higher missions to fulfil . " |
| 11 | A warning message will be displayed if it is a development version , or if that version does not exist for the given Product package at this time . |
| 12 | There the Revenue argued that , at the time the tax payers subscribed their shares , Newco did not exist for the purpose of carrying on a trade ; its only identifiable purpose was to acquire a business . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | Needless to say , this attitude did not make for a good marriage . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | Their success at the game did not make for an easy relationship , though . |
| 18 | Perhaps even more destructively , the Philharmonic Hall acoustic does not make for the clarity of diction experienced in the average theatre . |
| 19 | Nenna did not answer for a second , and Tilda bellowed : |
| 20 | 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 ? ’ |
| 21 | We came here to Siena , where I have been before , though to a different house , to visit my husband who accompanied the Brownings last month , the doctor having ordered Mrs Browning to be taken out of this city or he would not answer for the consequences . |
| 22 | ‘ If you persist in clinging to me in that limpet-like way , Caroline , I will not answer for the consequences … ’ |
| 23 | Indeed , I remember warning her , half in joke , half in earnest , that I could not answer for the new Government lasting more than six weeks . |
| 24 | While we are happy to answer any queries about our own products , we can not answer for the content of other publisher 's works . |
| 25 | The answer is one of two things — a Labour government which he can not influence for the good , or a Labour government which he turns out in a few months , provoking another election . |
| 26 | We could not undress for a week in case of a submarine attack , and you all got a little cross , I remember . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | They could not afford to buy a horse , and although the richer peasants were more heavily taxed , this did not compensate for the wide difference in equipment , which was not taxed . |