Example sentences of "not [vb infin] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sufficient funds did not exist for the fast rehabilitation of the railways , for the immediate implementation of mass education . |
| 2 | The difficulty is most apparent when discussing the Renaissance since by hypostatising science and art as two separate and separable activities Kemp is framing a problem that did not exist for the historical actors . |
| 3 | A warning message will be displayed if it is a development version , or if that version does not exist for the given Product package at this time . |
| 4 | Indeed , I remember warning her , half in joke , half in earnest , that I could not answer for the new Government lasting more than six weeks . |
| 5 | The answer is one of two things — a Labour government which he can not influence for the good , or a Labour government which he turns out in a few months , provoking another election . |
| 6 | Elderly people require a lot of time and effort on a GP 's part , the GP gets extra money for that but it may not compensate for the extra work . ’ |
| 7 | They could not afford to buy a horse , and although the richer peasants were more heavily taxed , this did not compensate for the wide difference in equipment , which was not taxed . |
| 8 | Such a facility would normally apply to a physically discrete or contained site ( e.g. a single pasture , groups of pastures , a wetland separated from other land ) in order that livestock from another ownership or section of land could not substitute for the agreed reduction . |
| 9 | The development of professional competence however paramountly desirable can not substitute for the academic element in language courses . |
| 10 | The reduced-rate does not count for the basic pension . |
| 11 | Jaqueline had retired from her job early to care for her 69-year-old mother with senile dementia , and was outraged to find that because she had a husband she did not qualify for the invalid care allowance . |
| 12 | Like the golfer who hits his one decent shot on the eighteenth hole and can not wait for the following weekend 's game , I felt light of heart with the warm promise of another evening in the company of the delightful Sally Drayton . |
| 13 | He can not wait for the proposed exchange of animals . |
| 14 | Bill Clinton , writhing amid the dilemma that most of his election campaign has been an attempt to persuade the white middle class that he does most emphatically not speak for the poor or the coloured , announced , after much shilly-shallying , that ‘ We have refused to confront our differences … and for this neglect , we have all paid . ’ |
| 15 | Ambrose Evans-Pritchard also says that Menchu ‘ does not speak for the Mayan Indians of Guatemala ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ I can not speak for the other 33 countries who are not here , but as for me , I would say if this happened in 1990 it would be good , ’ he added . |
| 17 | I do not speak for the Philippine health movement , rather these are my attempts to understand how both small-scale local initiatives and a national effort can alter the historical process which to date has left the majority of the 60 million Filipino people living in dire poverty in a land of plenty . |
| 18 | On the other hand there are those who would argue that even if the academic course has to have a vocational purpose — and most students themselves would agree with this — the variety of vocational destinations requires a degree of generality to achieve commonality of interests and this can not provide for the specific needs of future language teachers . |
| 19 | Accordingly , the draftsman should not provide for the usual disregard of tenant 's improvements in the valuation formula . |
| 20 | David Boren , the Oklahoma Democrat who holds the swing vote on the committee , has already made it clear that he will not vote for the current package , dubbing it ‘ Stimulus 2 ’ , a reference to Mr Clinton 's ill-fated emergency spending package . |
| 21 | Catholics , however , did not vote for the Unionist Party . |
| 22 | Graham , the doubter who would not vote for the local Conservative MP , had even expressed indifference about the Russians taking over South Africa . |
| 23 | I said to myself I will not vote for the Conservative party again . |
| 24 | They thus have some control over the speed with which the AGV moves through their section , and for those sections where the carrier does not move for the full 20 minutes there is the opportunity to pace their work over that span . |
| 25 | This is so stupid that you might wonder why the employers did not plump for the other alternative — until you come to look at it ! |
| 26 | Erm , and the reason for this , of course , is that , as I said , natural selection selects for the reproductive success of individuals , it does not select for the reproductive success of the group . |
| 27 | While the way in which sexual relations are conducted obviously varies considerably from individual to individual and from zone to zone , generally speaking , there is an attempt to maintain a fairly strict control in the military camps , although this does not apply for the civilian population , nor should it be regarded as an indication of future attitudes . |
| 28 | Ransom did not apply for the permanent job at financially-troubled Dudley — one of the lowest spending metropolitan authorities on social services . |
| 29 | The women remained firm that unless the entire order was completed they would not pay for the hot whiskies . |
| 30 | ‘ I do not go for the peaked caps , epaulettes and dummy holsters , ’ he said . |