Example sentences of "for not [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leyland Daf workers and trades union leaders in Britain criticised the British Government for not taking similar action to the Belgian and Dutch governments , which will invest something in the region of £80 million to help Daf resume production on the continent . |
| 2 | Fred Workman gave me a free hand , bless him , and through my Radio Column , feature stories and editorials we blasted the CRBC , the federal Members of Parliament as well as the M.L.A. 's , and also included the local Mayor and Councillors for not taking preventative action to preserve our pioneering radio station long before . |
| 3 | She dismisses hormonal explanations of sex differences because they relate poorly to behaviour , and criticizes cross-cultural studies ' attempts to establish the universality of sex differences for not taking full account of cultural variety . |
| 4 | Friends of the Earth has criticized county councils for not taking renewable energy sources seriously . |
| 5 | Senior members of the ruling Liberal Democratic party have started to criticise ministries for not taking American complaints seriously . |
| 6 | The Sports Council has confirmed that Andrew Saxton CAN take part , if selected , but it has attacked weighlifting 's ruling body for not taking any action against Saxton . |
| 7 | Mind you , Swindon only had themselves to blame for not getting more goals . |
| 8 | The main reasons for not wanting immediate employment were to do with their children and their perceptions of their children 's needs . |
| 9 | On Oct. 7 it was reported that 46,000 foreigners , the majority of them Romanian nationals , had in the previous three days been refused entry from 27 countries for not fulfilling these conditions . |
| 10 | In Britain , for example , there is no excuse for not knowing recent trends in the cost of living . |
| 11 | And , as for not knowing each other , we have the rest of our lives to find that out . |
| 12 | In many cases it is particularly important to discuss the reasons for not prescribing psychotropic drugs . |
| 13 | I felt miserable and blamed myself even more for not staying that night or fetching a doctor , but I did n't realise and I was so scared . |
| 14 | An absence of information to aid the identification of those about to face a stressful event who would as a consequence be particularly susceptible to psychiatric disorder is obviously a good enough reason for not considering preventive intervention . |
| 15 | It may appear harsh to criticize the Library Association for not pursuing possible cases of professional misconduct and it may seem even harsher to pillory members of the Association for putting personal interests first and professional interests second , but censorship , and being party to censorship . |
| 16 | The reasons for not endoscoping some subjets are given in Table II . |
| 17 | Although he says that he intends to keep an open mind , Montagnier has criticized the government in the past for not supporting more research outside the mainstream and for not paying more attention to Africa . |
| 18 | The World Wildlife Fund , in 1988 renamed the Worldwide Fund for Nature , has been criticized , largely unjustly in my view , for not saving endangered species such as the African elephant , the panda and the black rhino . |
| 19 | Now we add another reason for not holding speculative balances : if the rate of interest is currently high and is likely to fall , the exchange rate will also be likely to fall . |
| 20 | Perhaps Christianity has been to blame for not providing manly worship and interests and fellowship . |
| 21 | The DES has nevertheless been criticised for not giving enough training to teachers and for not providing adequate computer programs for the classroom . |
| 22 | A committee of " experts " are to investigate the present regulatory framework of the industry which has been criticised , also , for not providing adequate safeguards against salmonella and vitamin A poisoning . |
| 23 | The worst affected area was Middleton Road where residents blame the Cherwell District Council for not providing adequate drainage . |
| 24 | Speakers at the conference also criticized the Department of the Environment for not providing local authorities with funds to enable them to track down offenders . |
| 25 | The police have also come in for critisism — for not providing enough officers . |
| 26 | Seems IBM and Microsoft Inc among others have managed to get themselves knocked off the US Government 's GSA list for not providing enough pricing information — everything will have to be bid . |
| 27 | In the Court , Touche Ross was criticised for not allowing third parties to see their 120 page report dated 29 November 1991 . |
| 28 | There 's only one excuse for not buying Genuine Porsche Parts . |
| 29 | 5.3 There are two further reasons for not accepting any sort of identification between adverbal adjectives and predicate qualifiers , apart from the indications given by ambiguity , and by the fact that they correspond to different types of question , and by the intuitively close relationship which is found in many cases between a verb + adverbal adjective pair and a single lexical verb . |
| 30 | The company , which will hold shares in the recycling business and assist in the marketing of products , continues to be criticised by environmentalists for not using washable plates and cutlery . |