Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prominent advocates of ratification included EC Commission President Jacques Delors ( who declared on Aug. 28 that he " would not stay on for another mandate if the " no " vote won " ) and also both the RPR leader Jacques Chirac and the UDF leader Valéry Giscard d'Estaing , although many RPR and UDF members were opposed to ratification . |
| 2 | ‘ All Mr Fallon 's splutterings will not make up for those people who are on record waiting lists in Darlington . |
| 3 | The reports of international commissions such as that of Brandt do not make up for this gap . |
| 4 | It was obviously made to stand up with its foot on something which at first I could not make out for all the dust and dirt but eventually realised was a skull . |
| 5 | ‘ What 's wrong , Dane , did I hurt your macho pride by not sticking around for more ? |
| 6 | As I said in an earlier chapter , the principle of speaking is not to go on for more than a few minutes without getting your audience to do something — applaud or laugh or raise their hands . |
| 7 | But it 's awful , sir , not eating much for three days . |
| 8 | Yet affairs which , perhaps , appeared to be progressing well enough were not to remain so for many more years . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , it must be recognized that co-operation by itself can not compensate entirely for inadequate funding . |
| 10 | We can predict statistically how the atoms and photons will behave , but we can not predict accurately for each one of them — and , afterwards , we can not tell how each of them has behaved unless we look . |
| 11 | They have not won away for 24 games since they clinched the 1992 title , and there was never any prospect of them doing so yesterday once Ian Rush had struck after 24 minutes . |
| 12 | She had not come here for that ; it was another problem that she must take on , but not now , not here . |
| 13 | The situation was desperate : Holmes was away on a case , and not expected back for some time . |
| 14 | It 's interesting that gay men on Switchboard found it much easier to accept that they did n't automatically know best for lesbians than white people on Switchboard find it to accept that they might not know best for Black people . |
| 15 | The top two are connected but the bottom two are not ; but any small portion of either of the bottom two also appears somewhere in one of the top two , so any node whose inputs are restricted to some small region can not behave differently for connected and disconnected inputs . |
| 16 | Their lands , which had been seized by the crown in 1308 , by papal decree should have been transferred in 1312 to the Order of the Hospitallers , but in England this transfer was not carried out for some years , during which the king continued to profit from the estates . |
| 17 | Even at 70 , the energetic Mr Chance can not do enough for those he feels have been restricted in their activities and their education and have little or no chance of mixing with the community . |
| 18 | Why , then , do they not do more for small business and look again at legislation on the late payment of debt ? |
| 19 | If Hand could not do so for 65 theses , then tracing 550 authors of Scottish geology theses would have been even more daunting , and there would have been difficulties in selecting a statistically valid sub-set for a questionnaire . |
| 20 | In the silent happiness that was life in la Sologne , Jean-Claude explained to me why he was not working on Frontenac 's libretto and how he would not do so for any amount of money . |
| 21 | Strange as it seems , I believe that she had not done so for many years . |
| 22 | The Landscape Institute publishes no percentage fee scale , and has not done so for many years . |
| 23 | I was so disappointed to find out that , because I work for the company , I could not send off for three free tea towels and a £1 gift voucher being offered as part of a Hovis and JS combined promotion . |
| 24 | Fears of militancy resulting from unemployment and the inadequacy of voluntary efforts to relieve it led to some recognition that charity could not provide sufficiently for either type of unemployment . |
| 25 | But do not look here for specific advice . |
| 26 | They should not look actively for these behaviours : rather they should wait till they come to their attention before recording them . |
| 27 | While the area health authority ( AHA ) had commissioned work to consider the future of its long-stay hospitals , the looming 1982 reorganization of the NHS by which the area tier of authorities was to be abolished , did not augur well for any initiative to be taken forward from such work . |
| 28 | These fag-ends did not augur well for any public announcement that might be made . |
| 29 | Eat self-blanching celery as soon as possible as it does not keep well for long periods . |
| 30 | When his hand was being plastered up Marshall was advised not to play again for ten days . |