Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And even that did not make for encouraging listening . |
| 2 | I decided that she had never really liked Richard and wrote her an angry letter attacking a Labour politician I knew she particularly admired , saying he did not care for Socialist principles and was no more than a cunning man who would do anything for power . |
| 3 | He did not gain many public commissions , because he did not care for architectural competitions . |
| 4 | Barton did not care for Indian food and ate sparingly from the vegetarian buffet . |
| 5 | Earlier Neil Kinnock , the Labour leader , hoped it would be demonstrated that Sir Nicholas did not speak for other Tories ‘ because the gutter language he used is not fit for anyone standing for a democratic party ’ . |
| 6 | More than usually generous credit terms may have to be offered , and although we did not allow for introductory discounts in our example , these may have to be offered to induce custom , with the degree of generosity perhaps varying by assessment of likelihood of payment and repeat orders . |
| 7 | The analysis did not allow for other components in the familial aggregation . |
| 8 | The programme was devised in response to feedback from the previous term 's courses on assertiveness and time management , which suggested that one day courses did not allow for adequate reflection on the issues , practice or follow up discussion . |
| 9 | Helens ' overall allocation was low because it did not bid for new places and put any proposals to tackle its serious surplus place problem . |
| 10 | Like Audubon , Lear did not plan for accompanying text : this was to be a purely pictorial study of a single species . |
| 11 | ‘ It was done from my section and I am afraid I did not ask for sufficient permission . |
| 12 | This meant that , as a county , it was significantly smaller than it later became , and that ( in particular ) it did not include for local-government purposes the city of Oxford . |
| 13 | In the same issue of the Lancet , Astra replied that Glaxo 's new test was scientifically unsound because it did not account for normal cell division ( which would also stimulate DNA synthesis ) . |
| 14 | In the event , therefore , the Act did not provide for large-scale planning and redevelopment , but stimulated further direction towards slum clearance by extending new forms of subsidy directed to the rehousing of overcrowded families . |
| 15 | They did not wait for blind Pew , who tried to follow them , tapping wildly with his stick . |
| 16 | This might explain why they did not attend for clinical review . |
| 17 | She thought that her father probably now earned more than £100,000 a year , but she did not know for sure because it was nine years since she had last visited him , four years since she had last received a Christmas card from him . |
| 18 | What the precise purpose was of installing complex electronics in an old sailing vessel he did not know for sure , and Iain did not press him . |
| 19 | Ages recorded on death certificates ( and to a lesser extent on marriage certificates ) were not always accurate because the informant did not know for sure . |
| 20 | As the eminent nursing historian Monica E. Baly points out , in the nineteenth century sense nursing did not qualify for professional status : ‘ … nurses were not independent practitioners and indeed , the insistence on obedience was anti-ethical to independence and self-sufficiency ’ . |
| 21 | Some women might find him attractive , but she did n't go for loose-limbed , olive-skinned men whose black hair flopped across their foreheads . |
| 22 | She still did n't know for sure if Chris had been murdered . |
| 23 | FitzAlan might suspect that something had happened between them , but he did n't know for sure . |
| 24 | ‘ We knew the dangers and my husband Sammy and son Neil did n't know for sure we would come back . |
| 25 | That Mr er did live at the flat erm with his wife , there may have been children but we did n't know for certain and that the previous night two male persons appeared to have been there . |
| 26 | Grey you could say they were dark , if you did n't know for definite you could say they were dark trousers . |
| 27 | The fact that you did n't ask for personal recommendations , it 's not my fault . |
| 28 | She complained that her children had apparently not been allowed access to a Baptist minister , but was told that they had not asked for religious support when it was offered . |
| 29 | Most of the members had not joined for political reasons but quite openly admitted the social attractions of the YCs . |
| 30 | Belgium , as a member state of the EEC , had not legislated for equal pay . |