Example sentences of "[vb -s] [not/n't] [adv] [vb infin] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It need hardly be added that the examiner always wants reasons and authorities for the answer , even though he does not expressly ask for them . |
| 2 | The wrongful sale of goods subject to a hire-purchase agreement will constitute a repudiation and hence vest a right to immediate possession in the finance company even though the agreement does not expressly provide for this . |
| 3 | However , the law does not normally allow for any order to be made which will directly affect pension entitlements ( see Cretney and Masson , 1990 , pp. 405–7 ) . |
| 4 | Network Equipment Technologies Inc , Redwood City , California is to buy the 20% of its Adaptive Corp affiliate that it does not already own for about $1.5m in cash and 600,000 new shares . |
| 5 | One might be asked to report upon one 's beliefs to a psychologist or sociologist , interested in current opinion on matters biological , and say ‘ I believe that natural selection does not adequately account for the evolution of animal life ’ . |
| 6 | One would then not be saying that natural selection does not adequately account for the evolution of animal life but that one has a certain belief to the effect that it does not do so . |
| 7 | Of course , if one has the belief one would indeed be prepared to say that it does not adequately account for the evolution of animal life , but that is not what one is saying here and now . |
| 8 | Agitation does not completely compensate for the lack of direct activity . |
| 9 | It was strange that he was prepared to pay out £150million ‘ and yet he continues to deny the Government 's responsibility for mistakes and does not even apologise for his department 's role ’ . |
| 10 | Invention does not satisfactorily account for them . |
| 11 | However , most of the literature does not satisfactorily account for the simultaneous determination of wages and membership while allowing for the interaction between the free rider problem and workers ' tastes . |
| 12 | To return to crack propagation in brittle solids , it does not really matter for our present purposes whether fracture is initiated by a dynamic blow or by a static load . |
| 13 | It does not really matter for our purposes what the variable is . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , much of this expertise remains unrecognised by the British school system , largely because the RSA Diploma does not currently count for anything in the award of Qualified Teacher Status . |
| 15 | He does not greatly care for the dark purplish bathroom suite ( ‘ Damson ’ , the estate agent 's brochure had called the shade ) but it had been one of the things that attracted Marjorie when they bought the house two years ago — the bathroom , with its kidney-shaped handbasin and goldplated taps and sunken bath and streamlined loo and bidet . |
| 16 | ‘ He does not greatly care for it , but I need its solitude if I am to accomplish what I am about . ’ |
| 17 | This disjunctive , unfinished quality challenges readers to establish an order which the text does not entirely provide for them . |
| 18 | Ministers have been told that the present Levy Order does not explicitly provide for the recovery of levy from live lamb exports . |
| 19 | Importing authorities , on the other hand , have complained that the cross-boundary flow adjustment does not fully compensate for the actual workload since , by using average costs , it does not fully cover the costs of treating high-cost cases . |
| 20 | This point emerged in a 1986 case in which the High Court accepted that a person seeking a job relies on the accuracy of a reference about his character and capabilities even if he does not actually ask for it himself . |
| 21 | TODAY does not lightly ask for his or any criminal 's sentence to be increased . |
| 22 | When the consumer does not directly pay for the product the entire basis of the business model is unsound . |
| 23 | The government does not much care for it . |
| 24 | Good science does not necessarily make for good philosophy . |
| 25 | Hand-beating an aluminium panel does not necessarily make for a better car , confers no empirically measurable added value : nonetheless , it is the hand-wroughtness of Aston Martins that make otherwise sensible men write out cheques for £120,000 . |
| 26 | It does not necessarily call for an ethical content , so facts are often distorted or falsified for self-interest . |
| 27 | … the postmodernist decision that the Author is dead , and subjective agency along with him , does not necessarily work for women and prematurely forecloses the question of identity for them . |
| 28 | He does n't just hope for the best in other people — he genuinely believes in it . |
| 29 | Having the same financial people on either side does n't just make for faster communication . |
| 30 | Using the right kind of equipment and correct sounds does n't automatically qualify for a techno prefect 's badge , too many slip into the keep net just because of this , but The Black Dog always manage to create tracks with lasting presence . |