Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [adv] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prominent advocates of ratification included EC Commission President Jacques Delors ( who declared on Aug. 28 that he " would not stay on for another mandate if the " no " vote won " ) and also both the RPR leader Jacques Chirac and the UDF leader Valéry Giscard d'Estaing , although many RPR and UDF members were opposed to ratification . |
| 2 | ‘ All Mr Fallon 's splutterings will not make up for those people who are on record waiting lists in Darlington . |
| 3 | The reports of international commissions such as that of Brandt do not make up for this gap . |
| 4 | It was obviously made to stand up with its foot on something which at first I could not make out for all the dust and dirt but eventually realised was a skull . |
| 5 | We can predict statistically how the atoms and photons will behave , but we can not predict accurately for each one of them — and , afterwards , we can not tell how each of them has behaved unless we look . |
| 6 | Even at 70 , the energetic Mr Chance can not do enough for those he feels have been restricted in their activities and their education and have little or no chance of mixing with the community . |
| 7 | In the silent happiness that was life in la Sologne , Jean-Claude explained to me why he was not working on Frontenac 's libretto and how he would not do so for any amount of money . |
| 8 | Fears of militancy resulting from unemployment and the inadequacy of voluntary efforts to relieve it led to some recognition that charity could not provide sufficiently for either type of unemployment . |
| 9 | They should not look actively for these behaviours : rather they should wait till they come to their attention before recording them . |
| 10 | While the area health authority ( AHA ) had commissioned work to consider the future of its long-stay hospitals , the looming 1982 reorganization of the NHS by which the area tier of authorities was to be abolished , did not augur well for any initiative to be taken forward from such work . |
| 11 | These fag-ends did not augur well for any public announcement that might be made . |
| 12 | It will not run again for some time , but from the human point of view , all was well . |
| 13 | Jessie did not return home for several hours . |
| 14 | I could not go back for some time as the Germans had obviously built up their air force to great strength , so I threw in my lot with Fulham church in my rare off-duty times . |
| 15 | There 's no need to worry — I 'd not live there for all the gold in Christendom and I told the lady Anne as much ! |
| 16 | Blocked roads meant that many motorists could not get home for several hours . |
| 17 | The present legal position does not cater adequately for such contingencies , as Greengross ( 1986 ) has cogently pointed out . |
| 18 | Another issue is whether a refurbished general code of offences against the person , including clearly graded offences and ‘ threats ’ offences , would not cater adequately for these occasions . |
| 19 | He could n't stay still for more than a few seconds and either paced the ground or fidgeted with his hair , clothes , hands , face and anything else within his reach . |
| 20 | I did n't stay there for that . |
| 21 | The money ca n't make up for all the misery I went through . ’ |
| 22 | You do n't show up for any of them . ’ |
| 23 | Which he could n't do now for all the tea in China . |
| 24 | And we 'll sort out last week 's postal competition so do n't ring in for this one and the question was , What 's this got to do with a company ? |
| 25 | He said that he wo n't return home for another six years and still has 65 countries to visit . ’ |
| 26 | Take the Singles ' Society , which seemed to exist solely so that its smartly dressed president could chat up pretty girls ; or the Alice Society : ‘ You did n't sign up for that did you , ’ said one newcomer to his friend as they left . |
| 27 | I would n't have missed doing this for the world , but I would n't sell up for another . |
| 28 | ‘ I would n't have missed doing this for the world , but I would n't sell up for another . |
| 29 | It 's extremely noisy because the surfacing at one stage just did n't take properly for all sorts of reasons the traffic along there is increasing quite dramatically and I hope that will be part of those schemes . |
| 30 | It did n't take long for some bright spark to try out the Doom Diver Catapult in a battle . |