Example sentences of "[am/are] not [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am not prepared for us to be a satellite of Middlesbrough and it appears the majority of Radio One programmes will be coming from Middlesbrough , ’ he said . |
| 2 | I am not looking for maximum performance or power . |
| 3 | I am not looking for money , just a deep involvement and I must be worth a telephone call . |
| 4 | I am not looking for , or expecting , sympathy , but as I have selflessly ridden through the valley of the Multivite Vegeburger/Singletons Valve Replacement League Division Three , I have taken abuse to the left of me and phlegm to the right . |
| 5 | ‘ I am not looking for a ghost . |
| 6 | ‘ I am not looking for commitment ! ’ |
| 7 | And she said : ‘ When I am not training for hockey I play football . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I am not arguing for shoddy commercials . |
| 10 | As stressed earlier , I am not arguing for a revived regional geography per se , but rather for ‘ a regional perspective that informs all geographical activity ’ Johnston , 1990b , p. 135 ) . |
| 11 | ‘ It will start all sorts of speculation that we are getting back together and I am not going for that . ’ |
| 12 | I am not asking for Camelot , after all . |
| 13 | Tennant and his girlfriend , Mandy Simpson , 21 , are not headed for the discos but to top up their tans at the Electric Beach instant tan centre . |
| 14 | But sadly the works of art are not destined for any gallery … they remain a very private and personal part of Kylie 's life . |
| 15 | After their racing days the horses are not destined for breeding ; they often live as the mounts of amateur riders in local races or retire to become family friends . |
| 16 | But should we assume the same training is required by the lion 's share of our undergraduates who are not destined for academic careers ? |
| 17 | Members of the society which remains unchanged are not asked for their views . |
| 18 | In particular , do not start with the historical background if you are not asked for it , unless you have some special reason for doing this — and if so , state the reason . |
| 19 | This time it is not a natural parting of the ways like leaving school that has happened ; rather , an unexpected factor , for example some form of incurable disease or sudden death through illness or accident has occurred , which propels us into a significant loss that we are not prepared for . |
| 20 | Is n't it strange that we are taught about many things which may never come to pass and yet most of us are not prepared for the one inevitable occurrence in our lives ? |
| 21 | We are not prepared for it , whereas our competitors are . |
| 22 | We note that the most striking finding reported in their paper — the 5 cm difference in average height between men with microalbuminuria in both samples and those with no microalbuminuria in both samples — is based on a small number of men with microalbuminuria , and the means are not standardised for age . |
| 23 | You are not aiming for some exact scientific precision ( if absolute precision is needed , you can use pen and paper ) , but you are meeting and communicating with another adult human being . |
| 24 | You are not training for the next Olympics , just getting a little fitter and making your heart work more efficiently and become stronger . |
| 25 | This study shows that some patients are not referred for specialist opinion , the shortfall being mainly among elderly people . |
| 26 | If this population is representative of the UK nationally , a substantial number of patients dying from end stage liver disease is being denied the option of liver transplantation because they are not referred for assessment . |
| 27 | Figures are not collected for people with AIDS Related Complex ( ARC ) , which can be an equally disturbing disease ( see Section 4 ) . |
| 28 | The key point about all the objects collected is that their provenance is known ; they are not collected for aesthetic merit alone . |
| 29 | These doubts are not examined for academic purposes , nor are they treated in a critical way . |
| 30 | Anyway , GPs are not trained for either of these . |