Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your talk will be the first item on the agenda you need not stay for the rest of the meeting unless you want to . |
| 2 | ‘ You 'll not stay for the wedding ? |
| 3 | ‘ And now , knowing the truth , or as much as I 'm prepared to divulge , will you not stay for the wedding ? |
| 4 | Just it was a beautiful day , so I said why not stay for an hour , so we got out , out , in , so we , as it is , , you know we just went round a little bit , and it 's very tidy and nice , biscuits . |
| 5 | The proposal was that His Majesty would invite certain individuals as individuals to take upon their shoulders the burden of carrying on the Government and Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Samuel ( sic ) had stated that they were prepared to act accordingly … the Administration would not exist for a period longer than was necessary to dispose of the emergency , and when that purpose was achieved the political parties would resume their respective positions . |
| 6 | There the Revenue argued that , at the time the tax payers subscribed their shares , Newco did not exist for the purpose of carrying on a trade ; its only identifiable purpose was to acquire a business . |
| 7 | The heavy makeup melting even in the air-conditioning , the legless beggar who sleeps under the office porch and cleans their shoes in gratitude , the slums you can not observe because no roads go through the swamps and whose inhabitants do not exist for the State because the census officials can not reach them , the bomb-carriers serving as flower-pots , the boys selling themselves to the rich English ex-public schoolboys , the girls selling themselves to the fat German tourists , the police raping the boys and the girls they are protecting in the police-stations , the Committee officers boasting to Kate about the elegant jerk-offs in the massage parlours , their ever-decorative ever-bored wives boasting to Kate about their jewellery , the Thai girls saving up for eye and breast jobs , the luxury hotels where the high-class white whores hang out , the students shot by the military during a demonstration against the army regime , the girl students daring for the first time to stay out at night on the streets to picket , the crushing of strikes with bullets and beatings , the barring of political books in the Committee library , the anti-Communist adverts punctuating the Western films on TV . |
| 8 | Nietzsche wrote : " When I heard of the fires in Paris , I felt annihilated for some days and was overwhelmed by fears and doubts ; the whole academic ( wissenschaftlich ) , philosophical , artistic world seemed an absurdity , if a single day could wipe out the most glorious works of art , even whole periods of art ; I clung with earnest conviction to the metaphysical value of art , which can not exist for the sake of poor human beings , but has higher missions to fulfil . " |
| 9 | This general tendency in soil conservation evaluation derives from similar problems identified by critics of the existing approaches to agricultural research , namely the lack of a continuous outreach to and from research stations and farmers , and the conducting of programmes under conditions that do not exist for the farmer/pastoralist who is supposed to adopt them ( Biggs 1981 ) . |
| 10 | I do not think for a moment that the Letter of Aristeas should be taken as a Festal Scroll , something like the Book of Esther , to be read in the Alexandrian synagogues every year on the day on which ( as we know from Philo ) the Alexandrian Jews commemorated the translation ( De vita Mosis 2.41 ) . |
| 11 | Perhaps even more destructively , the Philharmonic Hall acoustic does not make for the clarity of diction experienced in the average theatre . |
| 12 | Nenna did not answer for a second , and Tilda bellowed : |
| 13 | Taken by surprise , she could not answer for a moment and than said angrily , ‘ If you knew , why did n't you say something before ? ’ |
| 14 | While we are happy to answer any queries about our own products , we can not answer for the content of other publisher 's works . |
| 15 | We could not undress for a week in case of a submarine attack , and you all got a little cross , I remember . |
| 16 | These honours could not compensate for the misery of his diocesan life . |
| 17 | Even if she was sitting next to him , complaining about his driving , her own imminent decease would not compensate for the depression generated by his own . |
| 18 | He had changed but not bathed , and the new slogan on his T-shirt , ‘ Maggie rules , OK ? ’ did not compensate for the stench of the great unwashed . |
| 19 | Although the money MI6 has provided has given him access to Western luxuries , they can not compensate for the fact that he will never see his motherland again . |
| 20 | These examples suggest that de-centralisation in itself will not substitute for the market 's rewards and penalties , or for genuine consumer sovereignty . |
| 21 | If such cells develop as they do because they contain only some of the genes — for example , just the genes for being a gut cell — then a nucleus from such a cell could not substitute for an egg nucleus . |
| 22 | Authoritarians do not apologize for the smack of firm government . |
| 23 | It goes on to say ‘ though he stumble he shall not fall for the Lord upholds him with his hand ’ . |
| 24 | However , ‘ fun ’ does not translate for the community relations policemen as something opposite to work : the ‘ fun ’ is taken as a serious job of work . |
| 25 | He did not doubt for an instant that once he explained things to his brother , once he made him see what assets were available and how they could be used , Jean-Paul would rise from his lethargy and be as engaged , as excited , and as determined , as Edouard . |
| 26 | Left staring at him while waiting for her full wits to return , Leith did not know for the moment what on earth was going on . |
| 27 | Marion does not qualify for a maintenance grant because her parents are well off , but they are also estranged , from each other and from her , so she is obliged to support herself at University with a variety of part-time jobs . |
| 28 | In general , married women can not qualify for the allowance , but there are some exceptions to this rule , so if in doubt enquire at the Department of Health and Social Security . |
| 29 | They said he did not qualify for the money — a desperately-needed £75 — because his absence from Britain meant he was not available for work . |
| 30 | Technically , they did not qualify for the defence of provocation , but their cases are heart-rending and should evoke a change in attitude towards the type of defence that women in those circumstances can claim . |