Example sentences of "not [verb] for [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If workers are given jobs for life or if their wages are linked to age and seniority does this not make for a much less flexible labour market ? |
| 2 | If the resist is not exposed for a long enough period , it will not develop fully and so some traces will remain on the board . |
| 3 | Yet ironically , recent government policies have created a situation where more and more prisoners serving life and other long sentences have rather less to lose , for it has now been decreed that various categories of serious offender will not normally be considered for parole , or not considered for a very long time ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 4 | Such memory differences appear instead to be limited to the single arousing item and not appear for the immediately following ones although general physiological arousal would be expected to still be present . |
| 5 | You came into the chamber , you were not looking for an almost invisible line of thread running from your bed underneath the door . |
| 6 | She was not prepared for a very similar question being thrown at her . |
| 7 | The inflation in the early stages of the universe , which the no boundary proposal predicts , means that the universe must be expanding at very close to the critical rate at which it would just avoid recollapse , and so will not recollapse for a very long time . |
| 8 | This has not made for a smoothly running society , whose members all feel part of a common enterprise . |
| 9 | There was a flicker of response in them which Brian had not seen for a very long time . |
| 10 | It was something he had not felt for a very long time . |
| 11 | We make these plans on an natural level , and yet , we do not plan for the most important event of all time , when we will stand before God and he will ask that question , what have you done with Jesus that is called the Christ ? |
| 12 | They were not opting for a particularly expensive scheme . |
| 13 | By tea-time I was aware of walking strangely , and dared not run for the little beeps my botty made . |
| 14 | Esther sent a card to Alix , too , but Alix 's mother forwarded it accidentally-on-purpose to the wrong address possibly because she did not care for a rather elaborate allusion to Lacrima Christi in the text , nor for the brightly coloured shiny modern Madonna which the card portrayed . |
| 15 | An attentional model can not account for the statistically significant ear-by-stimulus type interaction . |
| 16 | They did n't speak for a very long time . |
| 17 | Cos he ca n't see , ca n't read for a terribly |
| 18 | Mr Brown said he really could n't wish for a more destructive class . |
| 19 | I could n't ask for a more caring and loving bunch of people . |