Example sentences of "not [verb] for the [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . " |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | So why does this free entertainment not qualify for the description of good clean fun ? |
| 9 | The Labour party cloaks under expressions such as ’ attack on civil rights ’ the fact that such people have not registered for the tax and have been indulging in tax avoidance , a practice for which the Labour party still shows some sympathy . |
| 10 | Perhaps even more destructively , the Philharmonic Hall acoustic does not make for the clarity of diction experienced in the average theatre . |
| 11 | She expected him to keep looking over his shoulder to make sure that all the fuss was not intended for the man behind . |
| 12 | It was not intended for the man or woman at the receiving end but for the author 's fellow elitists . |
| 13 | I suggested that if there was money available from sponsors that was not intended for the development of rugby , then it might be used as a way of rewarding the squad . |
| 14 | As such they are programmers ' aids and not intended for the user unfamiliar with computing . |
| 15 | The answers that his analysis might produce were not intended for the enlightenment of participants but for the enlightenment of anthropologists . |
| 16 | While we are happy to answer any queries about our own products , we can not answer for the content of other publisher 's works . |
| 17 | We came here to Siena , where I have been before , though to a different house , to visit my husband who accompanied the Brownings last month , the doctor having ordered Mrs Browning to be taken out of this city or he would not answer for the consequences . |
| 18 | ‘ If you persist in clinging to me in that limpet-like way , Caroline , I will not answer for the consequences … ’ |
| 19 | One of Mr Gould 's followers , health spokesman David Blunkett , urges Labour not to go for the unity of the graveyard . |
| 20 | Japanese aid is not given for the benefit of Japanese companies but for promotion of the sustainable development of the recipients in accordance with Japan 's Official Development Assistance Charter , which outlines the philosophy , principles and priorities underlying Japan 's aid . |
| 21 | Noticing that her hands are shaking and knowing that he has noticed she forces herself to act cool , not daring for the moment to analyse her disquiet lest she is incapable of handling the reason . |
| 22 | One of Jacob Rothschild 's first decisions as Chairman of the National Heritage Memorial Fund was not to acquire for the nation the most comprehensive collection in England of naive art shop signs , weather vanes , country furniture , marine samplers and quilts , made between 1750 and 1900 offered by dealer/collector Andras Kalman . |
| 23 | The question is how do ‘ cultural revolutionary ’ cadres work within a framework of democracy , a word which is not emphasized for the purposes of irony but to indicate what still remains the central principle on which cultural revolution must be conducted . |
| 24 | He was proud that he , and others like him , had not fallen for the con-trick . |
| 25 | The form used was complicated but could not compensate for the deficiencies of information about a population that was still highly mobile and still undergoing the stresses of war . |
| 26 | These honours could not compensate for the misery of his diocesan life . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | These examples suggest that de-centralisation in itself will not substitute for the market 's rewards and penalties , or for genuine consumer sovereignty . |