Example sentences of "[vb -s] [not/n't] [vb infin] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It follows from ( 8.3 ) that Y i does not change for any i in T A . |
| 2 | Still , one can see him becoming more loath to accept the evil in the good : and while this is charitable , it does not make for powerful story . |
| 3 | There is nothing wrong with this ; the Commons is , after all , the nearest thing we have to a democratic assembly , but it does not make for thorough and well-informed debate . |
| 4 | Without following Jakobson 's analysis in detail — it does not make for easy reading — I shall simply give examples of the sort of relationship he identifies under each of these headings . |
| 5 | But the use of inexpertly laid and brightly coloured bricks , token pitched roofs and arched windows does not make for likeable architecture . |
| 6 | They may suggest that you have no confidence in your argument or even that you ca n't make up your mind — and that does not make for much of an argument . |
| 7 | The NIMBY ( not in my back yard ) attitude , whether at home or abroad , does not make for good environmental policy . |
| 8 | Having read a lot of books does not make for good rock'n'roll lyrics — you end up with a band like XTC ; you might like them , sure , but that does n't make them rock'n'roll . |
| 9 | In short , both of them combine motley membership with rigid structure — which does not make for relaxed , efficient teamwork . |
| 10 | It does not make for comfortable listening if one spends the First Act jumping up and down to raise the volume a notch , and the Third , mindful of the neighbours , turning it down again . |
| 11 | But , except by private or hybrid Bills , Parliament does not legislate for individual cases . |
| 12 | The first three also damage stratospheric ozone , while ozone produced in the troposphere does not compensate for this loss , but in fact behaves as another greenhouse gas . |
| 13 | While class-based information does not exist for all those students who fail to gain work after graduating from a YTS , the conclusion about how the scheme operates in the case of black youths is probably equally valid with respect to white youths without qualifications coming from poor , unskilled , working-class homes . |
| 14 | The sooner an agreement is notified the longer the period of protection from fines is likely to be , since such protection does not exist for any period of operation of an agreement prior to notification . |
| 15 | each has a separate thumbnail file , and if one does not exist for any given image , PhotoFinish creates one . |
| 16 | Darwin 's theory on evolution does not mean for many Christians , no some Christians do not accept Darwin 's theory of evolution . |
| 17 | Conflict between these strata of society , ie. the proletariat and bourgeoisie , does not aim for mutual survival , but revolutionary change . |
| 18 | But this does not hold for national debt which is owed by the nation to citizens of the same nation … . |
| 19 | If , the Hopf bifurcation does not occur for any positive r , and are stable for all otherwise C " + are stable in and unstable in . |
| 20 | However , dissolution does not occur for some time and the excellent tissue reactions of the hydroxyapatite coatings have a very positive role . |
| 21 | The income eligibility limit ( above which a person does not qualify for legal aid ) in fact remains unchanged at £6,800 for a non-reparation case and £7,500 for a reparation case . |
| 22 | A young childless widow who does not qualify for either of these benefits will no longer be entitled to the weekly national insurance benefit even for the first 26 weeks . |
| 23 | That may be somewhat over-confident perhaps , but the operation of this layout for three years without an accident certainly does not argue for radical changes in form or priority . |
| 24 | The pluralist discussing large-scale societal issues of this sort does not argue for decisional methods or observation of group interaction but rather for the supposedly inevitable , though always incomplete , diffusion of central values , so that understanding political power is a matter of charting the spread or decline of these values . |
| 25 | Camilla 's sister , Annabelle Elliott , admitted that she does not know for sure whether there is any truth in rumours of a relationship with Prince Charles . |
| 26 | Natural selection does not select for any kind of qualitative improvement . |
| 27 | The world does not notice for another year . |
| 28 | ‘ Hurry , Wolfprince , for my work does not wait for such as you , ’ he said in his sibilant whisper , but now Nuadu detected a lick of pleasure in the voice . |
| 29 | The procedure does not wait for offline modules to be transferred , however a value is returned in MODULES_ONLINE to indicate whether any modules are offline awaiting transfer . |
| 30 | The procedure does not wait for offline modules to be transferred , however a value is returned in MODULES_ON_LINE to indicate whether any modules are offline awaiting transfer . |