Example sentences of "[verb] not [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has not made for a smoothly running society , whose members all feel part of a common enterprise . |
| 2 | Griffiths , who has not played for a month because of a rib injury , watched Cardiff overwhelm London Welsh on Saturday and is expected to train with the club next week . |
| 3 | Andersson has not played for a month but trained with United for the first time yesterday and made an instant impression . |
| 4 | ‘ She has not spoken for a month . |
| 5 | The difference between the French and English approaches to making mustard , technology apart , has not changed for a century . |
| 6 | The UN Security Council , meeting in closed session on Feb. 26 , agreed not to call for a ceasefire until Iraq had agreed to comply with all 12 relevant resolutions . |
| 7 | No rule of law or the profession , therefore , prevents him from entering into a contract by which he undertakes not to act for a specified class of person . |
| 8 | Reports indicated that agreement on the final communiqué was reached only after France had decided not to press for a clearer recognition of a European defence identity distinct from NATO . |
| 9 | Like Mr Rocard in 1988 , Mrs Cresson decided not to call for a vote of confidence on her new government 's programme , outlined to parliament on May 22nd . |
| 10 | He chose not to read for a fellowship and once it became clear that he was no longer in the race for academic honours he was not required to take all the examinations . |
| 11 | Needless to say , this attitude did not make for a good marriage . |
| 12 | Their success at the game did not make for an easy relationship , though . |
| 13 | Esther sent a card to Alix , too , but Alix 's mother forwarded it accidentally-on-purpose to the wrong address possibly because she did not care for a rather elaborate allusion to Lacrima Christi in the text , nor for the brightly coloured shiny modern Madonna which the card portrayed . |
| 14 | Most of them did not control for a possible confounding effect of H pylori infection . |
| 15 | They did not talk for a minute or so , studiously examining every inch of the tablecloth or the other diners . |
| 16 | Nenna did not answer for a second , and Tilda bellowed : |
| 17 | There was only one way in , by the drawbridge and the gate-towers ; he had racked his brains for an alternative , but there was none , short of procuring an ally within the walls , and that idea he did not entertain for a moment . |
| 18 | On the dining-room walls today hang generations of Macleods ; Boswell and Johnson were entertained by the 23rd chief , Norman , who did not marry for a decade after the travellers stayed here . |
| 19 | But in the isolation that their riches had brought about , and in their serene acceptance that privilege was their due , they did not anticipate for a moment the press of people Don Antonio Beatillo 's idiosyncratic will would bring to their door . |
| 20 | Susie did not reply for a long time . |
| 21 | The farmer did not reply for a moment , then he went up between the cows and gently rubbed Blossom 's forehead " Aye , this is the one , Jack . " |
| 22 | He was educated at Eton and Trinity College , Cambridge , where he did not sit for a degree . |
| 23 | He was diagnosed anti-depressants by his doctor but failed to take them and did not return for a check up two weeks later . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She heaved out a great sigh and did not move for a full fifteen seconds : the sergeant watched them tick past , marked by the flick of the thin red hand of the electric clock on the wall . |
| 26 | Roger Kenyon started slightly , but he did not speak for a moment . |
| 27 | James Ross did not speak for a minute . |
| 28 | ‘ Was n't that terrific ? ’ she turned to Ven to eagerly exclaim — and felt her heart begin to race yet again when , his expression somehow gentle , he did not speak for a moment but just stood and looked at her . |
| 29 | He did not press for an immediate renewal of Anselm 's homage ; and William Giffard stopped calling himself bishop of Winchester . |
| 30 | Even if the king himself did not press for an early political role , others might well do so on his behalf as a way of strengthening their own position . |