Example sentences of "[noun] not [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He effectively cast his own vote against the Islamic trend by calling on his subjects not to vote for extremist religious ideologies — a move which could prove counter-productive . |
| 2 | Two months after the military crackdown in Beijing in June 1989 , it was announced that university student intake would be cut from 640,000 to 610,000 in the next academic year , and that " specialities mainly in the social science fields which the State has deemed for a long time to have turned out personnel not qualified for socialist construction " would be suspended . |
| 3 | For the purposes of s 287(1) , the meaning of the term should be confined to releases not given for full consideration , on the grounds that such a limitation was required by the context of s 287(1) itself and by the provisions of TA 1970 relating to company distributions as a whole ( ss 233–237 and 282–286 ) . |
| 4 | Sums of money not required for immediate use can be put into a deposit account on which the bank will pay interest . |
| 5 | money not held for social or domestic use ; |
| 6 | A straightforward explanation for this is that inflation affects all voters whereas unemployment tends to be heavily concentrated on ( as far as the UK is concerned ) areas not noted for extensive Conservative support . |
| 7 | 12.6.3 Expert determination not advised for international |
| 8 | He thought he had programmed his body not to go for intellectual types — that is , if any woman could be described as intellectual . |
| 9 | From her vantage point she watched them come in : serious-looking lads in duffle coats , earnest women in glasses and hand-knitted cardigans , the clerical students from the religious seminaries in their black suits all looking remarkably cleaner and neater than the other males not bound for religious life . |
| 10 | The July regulations imposed tariffs up to 20 times higher than before on goods not intended for personal use . |
| 11 | The number of modules with no destination volume includes all modules in charge codes not specified for hard copying , any 0.0Z package modules for which no later issues exist and any modules filtered from hard copying . |
| 12 | There are occasional reports in the medical journals of people not sleeping for extended periods of time when suffering from illnesses interfering with brain function . |
| 13 | When she went up to her room that night she sat in her chair not listening for ghostly rustlings , but to the rise and fall of their conversation downstairs , punctuated with bursts of laughter . |
| 14 | With a move to new premises which would double its audience capacity in a city not noted for enthusiastic theatre-going , the company needed to retain its existing audience while attracting new theatre go-ers to fill additional seats . |
| 15 | In addition to this reference manual — which is a substantial document not intended for casual browsing — the TEI plans to make available a number of smaller introductory tutorials focused on particular application areas . |