Example sentences of "[vb mod] not [verb] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , local authorities should not refuse permission for development by small businesses on the grounds that established businesses would be adversely affected : ‘ planning control is not intended to enable local planning authorities to intervene in the normal operation of market forces ’ . |
| 2 | Is it not an absolute absurdity that that person should spend an extra week in prison and my elderly pensioner couple should not get compensation for the damage that they suffered as a result of the burglary ? |
| 3 | They may not reach maturity for several years . |
| 4 | Now , at this you may not have sympathy for that but it 's significant in circles I 've seen that you just do n't that Johnson has bothered to write out exactly how that play should be acted out , he 's trying to stay in control of his plays . |
| 5 | Remember all this well , so that you do n't get it wrong on the night ; you may not have time for a second performance . |
| 6 | A slowdown in investment may not hit growth for a while . |
| 7 | Since an injunction may be granted on an interlocutory basis pending trial ( which may not take place for many months ) and , in cases of great urgency , on an ex parte basis , it is clear that there is a possibility of the union side being robbed of the initiative in an industrial action . |
| 8 | Almost two centuries later it was being proposed that in much the same way every Spanish ambassador should have assigned to him a son or younger brother " to assist him as a comrade in his work " , be instructed in the conduct of embassy business and handle matters the ambassador himself could not spare time for , with the implication that he might well succeed to the post if it fell vacant . |
| 9 | John , whose Gospel scheme does not include , except by implication , the story of what the church , equipped with the Holy Spirit , achieved , and therefore could not make room for Pentecost ( as Luke does at the outset of his second volume ) , nevertheless makes the same point with considerable clarity In the first chapter of his Gospel he stresses that the Spirit rests exclusively upon Jesus , the fulfilment of the messianic hopes of the Old Testament for the bearer of the Spirit . |
| 10 | Despite the imposition of price controls , his government could not win acceptance for its pay restraint policy on the part of the TUC . |
| 11 | The security at the Palace was so tight that even the band 's ersatz manager , Scott Piering , could not gain admittance for his close acquaintances . |
| 12 | One central committee member , Ognjen Krstulovic , resigned because he could not accept responsibility for the implementation of the policy . |
| 13 | Although many boatmen 's wives acted as crew they were not recognised as such and could not get compensation for injury or sick pay . |
| 14 | When they could not get gold for their dollars after 1971 ( the US gold stock fell by only $2½ billion over the whole period ) , they only acquired these dollars because they were prepared to sell their own currencies in order to prevent them rising further . |
| 15 | Having got this joke out of the way , she was then told no she could not have money for food , but she could have cash for a carpet . |
| 16 | But these problems are not immediately apparent , and so need not inhibit accumulation for some time . |
| 17 | In addition , from a purely practical point of view it would not make sense for judgment creditors to be afforded preferential treatment in insolvencies . |
| 18 | Copts would not give money for use against Copts . |
| 19 | The published policy of the Secretary of State was that he would not grant consent for the total or substantial demolition of a listed building unless he was satisfied that every effort had been made to continue the present use or find an alternative use . |
| 20 | No one thought the speaker should have added that they would not hew wood for Lord Salisbury ; the divisions within the Council which would become so painfully evident over the Boer War were between Gladstonian Liberals and Liberal Imperialists , with the odd Liberal Unionist added for decoration , not between Liberals and Conservatives . |
| 21 | They and others would not allow time for their staff to study and pass the Modular System . |
| 22 | ( Perhaps if I knew the language , I would not have time for these facile analogies . ) |
| 23 | Many of those institutions would not seek incorporation for the obvious reasons . |
| 24 | They would not escape tax for October 1985 to April 1986 at all ; the special rules meant double taxation . |
| 25 | Nabiyev agreed to all the US proposals for weapon control , specifically to restrictions on sales of arms components , and gave assurances that Tajikistan would not sell uranium for the use of weapons production . |
| 26 | SFA chief executive Jim Farry said last night : ‘ We have told the FA we will not give permission for this TV game to be shown in Scotland . |
| 27 | But there is one theory which will not hold water for a moment ; and that is , that we were sent here to maintain the present Government in office . |
| 28 | There seems little point in wasting research time on the incidence of old age abuse ; as with child abuse , it can lead to a kind of spurious precision , in which figures are cited which will not bear scrutiny for three main reasons . |
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