Example sentences of "be not [verb] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It will start all sorts of speculation that we are getting back together and I am not going for that . ’ |
| 2 | But sadly the works of art are not destined for any gallery … they remain a very private and personal part of Kylie 's life . |
| 3 | You are not aiming for some exact scientific precision ( if absolute precision is needed , you can use pen and paper ) , but you are meeting and communicating with another adult human being . |
| 4 | Anyway , GPs are not trained for either of these . |
| 5 | They are not looking for some chopped-down Open University course . ’ |
| 6 | Dr Alun Gee , NRA technical manager for the Welsh region , said , ‘ We are not looking for any relaxation in current standards ’ and the objectives will contain a ‘ no deterioration ’ clause . |
| 7 | Police say they found a hammer in the house and are not looking for any other weapon . |
| 8 | Living persons are not fitted for such transmission , and even the dead must be guaranteed by their " solid achievement " ( political , literary , military , or other ) . |
| 9 | Us women are not to blame for this AIDS |
| 10 | In theory , you can convert a road shoe to cross-country shoe or vice versa , but as midsoles and uppers are not designed for such changes , it would not always to wise to try to . |
| 11 | The exercises , though , are not designed for any one standard just for all those who are committed to improving at whatever level . |
| 12 | The values of dissociation constants given in Table I are not corrected for this measured activity of the enzymes . |
| 13 | Though I had small scale maps at three inches to a mile for some areas they are not produced for all the Sahara , nor could I have afforded the hundred pounds they would have cost if they had been . |
| 14 | Will hon. Members please leave the Chamber quietly if they are not remaining for this ten-minute motion ? |
| 15 | Is this , all these wonderful protection of animals , dogs and horses and so on , and pet shops and so on , do , does the Chief Fire Officer think in his local knowledge , that most of these have been inspected by his officers , or does he get the feeling there , that sometimes the district councils are not asking for these inspections ? |
| 16 | Consequently , Re concentration data are not reported for these analyses , but the Os data are reported to illustrate the level of reproducibility of these measurements . |
| 17 | However , this will often conflict with the vendor 's desire to ensure that such assets are not sold for more than their tax written down value , otherwise the vendor may be liable to a balancing charge ( see , eg , s4 Capital Allowances Act 1990 regarding industrial buildings and s24 regarding plant and machinery ) . |
| 18 | They can not get around so nimbly in scrub vegetation as the Norfolk lurcher ; they are really for coursing , for a long chase after hares , and my animals are not used for that . |
| 19 | But Wittgenstein has been seen to argue convincingly that naming is a subsidiary use of language and that many substantives are not used for this purpose ( the psychological participles like ‘ thinking ’ being the obvious example ) and , furthermore , that naming itself is not a sort of primal act of speech acquisition but a clutch of language-games that need to be mastered like any others . |
| 20 | Because they are not paid for this service , there may be a socially less-than-optimal amount of bee-keeping . |
| 21 | Because , look at , I 'm not , you know , I 'm not er gon na even talk about the disaster at airport things , you know , the taking off and landing , if you 've got a stadium nearby with a lot of people in it , and one of these disasters happened to happen , I know we 're not looking for that , but if it does , you 're gon na have a stadium full of people if a plane comes down , well , you know . |
| 22 | Therefore , we 're not , other than the specific items that appear on your additions list , we 're not looking for any growth in the base budget at this stage , over and above that that 's already built into your budget base . |
| 23 | Well we 're not looking for those anyway are we ? |
| 24 | Juliet , I 'm afraid you 're not prepared for this search at all , you do n't know what you 've got into , and I think you ought to call it off right now . |
| 25 | Because when you are 12,000 miles away you 're not playing for any country . |
| 26 | ‘ Do n't get me wrong — we 're not asking for any favours from the referee , ’ said the inspirational Leeds midfielder . |
| 27 | We do n't give out medical advice , cos we 're not qualified for that , but we do sit and listen to them and they talk about different things and what they 've got to go through . |
| 28 | you 're not paying for that are you ? |
| 29 | And if we did spent twelve hundred pounds on an aeroplane and came back with fifty million pounds worth of grants , I 'm not apologising for that . |
| 30 | I 'm not looking for some sinecure of a job with the cosy family firm , Lucy ! |