Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb pp] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On scrutinising the notes of the 80 patients not referred for a specialist opinion we concluded that a nephrological opinion might have helped management in 17 cases . |
| 2 | She had not pressed for a statement at Westminster out of respect to his family . |
| 3 | A tea bush requires constant attention : if not plucked for a year it can take two years to return to normal ; if bushes have to be uprooted , new ones take seven years to come into production . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've not come for a drink . |
| 5 | I am sure their bodies were not designed for a two- or three-week period out of the fifty-two weeks in a year , however important that period may be . |
| 6 | The post-mortems continue but the truth is , that from an operational viewpoint , the 1,500V DC Woodhead line is not missed for a moment . |
| 7 | Katarina was Rizzi 's girl , not destined for a society marriage after all . |
| 8 | The chub take slugs absolutely savagely , as though they have not fed for a week and their very lives depend on seizing that particular specimen . |
| 9 | The father had not applied for a Medjay to guard his house , giving as his reason that he had efficient men of his own to do the job . |
| 10 | I remember him saying that the person in the anecdote had to remain anonymous since it was still not done for a woman to confess she enjoyed promiscuous , recreational sex . |
| 11 | Dave was off with his hernia Ross , Wayne Lindsay we 've not seen for a year , I mean I know things have been difficult for the last year |
| 12 | The Act of 1918 set the scene of the entire political world between the wars , often through consequences that were not seen for a generation . |
| 13 | His hand had not wavered for a moment . |
| 14 | That was a real-life experience , not acted for a film . |
| 15 | The pegs were plentiful , but F not needed for a pull , and as I swept my feet from left to right across the wall on little orange nubbins and small edges below good fingerlocks , in a thin , horizontal crack , I wished it could go on and on . |
| 16 | SUN-SEEKING Mr Lamont was given the cold shoulder yesterday when he was told he was NOT needed for a crisis meeting back in Britain . |
| 17 | A further difficulty with s.92(1) ( d ) is that it does not apply to emissions from premises not used for a trade , business , manufacture or process . |
| 18 | Griffiths , who has not played for a month because of a rib injury , watched Cardiff overwhelm London Welsh on Saturday and is expected to train with the club next week . |
| 19 | Andersson has not played for a month but trained with United for the first time yesterday and made an instant impression . |
| 20 | If you plan to eat in the living room , try to buy as generous a table as possible but one which will look quite in keeping with the room when it is not laid for a meal . |
| 21 | To presuppose this is both contradictory and dangerous ; contradictory because the West can not insist on a certain outcome from free elections and still uphold democracy ; dangerous because , if the confusion of the two in the public mind persists , there will be many more instances of superpowers subverting elected governments because they have not opted for a market economy . |
| 22 | For that reason the acquirer may insist that the trust fund or estate is not distributed for a period , unless the beneficiaries accept liability . |
| 23 | Three million unemployed , homelessness and poverty on a scale not known for a generation . |
| 24 | ‘ She has not spoken for a month . |
| 25 | It had not rained for a week and the white dust of the road started to dull the shine of all the shoes . |
| 26 | Well it 's not trickled for a while has it ? |
| 27 | He had not shaved for a day or two , and there was fair stubble on his cheeks and jaw . |
| 28 | If a property is not specified for a context that property is inherited , for each instance of the context , from the containing context . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's a wonder she 's not mistaken for a boilerman . |
| 30 | We 're not dressed for a Court feast-day . |