Example sentences of "[vb -s] [not/n't] [vb infin] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But the use of inexpertly laid and brightly coloured bricks , token pitched roofs and arched windows does not make for likeable architecture . |
| 5 | The NIMBY ( not in my back yard ) attitude , whether at home or abroad , does not make for good environmental policy . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In short , both of them combine motley membership with rigid structure — which does not make for relaxed , efficient teamwork . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But , except by private or hybrid Bills , Parliament does not legislate for individual cases . |
| 10 | Conflict between these strata of society , ie. the proletariat and bourgeoisie , does not aim for mutual survival , but revolutionary change . |
| 11 | But this does not hold for national debt which is owed by the nation to citizens of the same nation … . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Most of them do all they can for the elderly with their limited resources , but if your parent is badly in need of a telephone and there is no way of your managing to install it for her , you should bring every possible pressure to bear to produce some speedy action on his or her behalf ; for sudden illness , and the need for medical attention , does not wait for lengthy negotiations and committee work to rumble on indefinitely before it puts in an appearance.With very few exceptions , blaming individual social workers for delay in providing any particular service is usually an unfair and useless exercise , for they are only part of a large organisation and if things go wrong an approach to the local Director of Social Services is the best course of action . |
| 19 | In this case selection is all , or almost all , as space does not allow for extensive description or interpretation . |
| 20 | This limitation , of course , does not allow for full replacement of the council housing stock . |
| 21 | One consequence of this is that although the observations suggest that the cloud was centred on the Equator , the model simulates a cloud at about 10°N , because it does not allow for rapid transport of the cloud into the tropics and Southern Hemisphere . |
| 22 | Assuming a budget which does not allow for year-round spending , the next major consideration is how to divide it up . |
| 23 | Being on six floors does not allow for sweeping vistas , but this is not a shop in which one can get lost any more . |
| 24 | It does not call for explicit statements of the objectives of expenditure in a way that would enable a Minister 's plans to be tested against general government strategy : nor can it regularly embody detailed analysis of existing programmes and of major policy options on them . |
| 25 | There is no way up that does not call for sustained effort , and while a thin track is forming from a cairn on the roadside and will be some help when well trodden , Liathach will never be an easy climb . |
| 26 | Because I believe that it is the women that goes through all the pain , suffering and has to carry the burden of the chance of getting pregnant which a man does not have for obvious reasons . |
| 27 | If the licence does not provide for extra vehicles application for variation of the O licence has to be made on another form ( GV 81 ) . |
| 28 | Often this information does not survive for electronic records . |
| 29 | The principle does not apply for anisotropic materials , where the " decay length " after which stresses are uniform is not of the order of one diameter d but rather of order where E , G are the longitudinal Young 's and shear moduli respectively and C is a constant ( Horgan 1972 ) . |
| 30 | This is in line with the editorial style of the magazines , and with design fashions , but it certainly does n't make for easy reading . |