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 | 1.1 Duty not to compete within the duration of the employment contract This aspect of the duty of fidelity requires the employee not to work for any person who is or who might be in competition with his employer during the working day . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | Sums of money not required for immediate use can be put into a deposit account on which the bank will pay interest . |
| 6 | money not held for social or domestic use ; |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 12.6.3 Expert determination not advised for international |
| 9 | FOREIGN type not permitted for this module header version . |
| 10 | Not only is the Bundesrat 's consent not required for all laws ( Article 77(3) ) but , in addition to its power to overrule the Bundesrat ( Article 77(4) ) , the Bundestag has virtual carte blanche to extend its area of competence , in virtue of an article which is a perfect formulation of ‘ subsidiarity ’ : |
| 11 | He thought he had programmed his body not to go for intellectual types — that is , if any woman could be described as intellectual . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The July regulations imposed tariffs up to 20 times higher than before on goods not intended for personal use . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Australian Cricket Board manager Graham Halbish said doctors had ordered Waugh not to bowl for several months after diagnosing a stress fracture of his lower back — a legacy of the recent Ashes tour of England . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | When found , the duty officer obviously knew enough about Maxim 's sponsors not to ask for more . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | — it is also possible to draw on materials not designed for this purpose ; |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Mr. Major said that the inflation figure was remarkable in a way not seen for many years . |
| 22 | The land was waste or forage land not used for any purpose other than that to which it was put by the plaintiffs . |
| 23 | He claimed the firm had had previous difficulties in getting paid by the council , with one school not paying for five months . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The Cornish are fortunate to be able to paint their regional discontents in the attractive colours of Celtic tradition , which makes them so much more visible , even though it leads some of them to reinvent a language not spoken for 200 years , and even though the only popular public tradition with genuine roots in the country is Wesleyan Methodism . |
| 26 | In Tokyo , the Nikkei share index continued its nosedive into depths not seen for five years , despite government efforts to stimulate the slowing economy and the maudlin market . |