Example sentences of "was [not/n't] [verb] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A progressive tax on the more productive regions and peasants might have been more just and welcome from the political point of view , but it was not applied for fear of removing the incentive to sow from the better-placed peasants . |
| 2 | The SPAR system was not intended for use in practical applications , but was written to test a specific version of the hypothesis that a shallow processing approach to NLP , of relying heavily on linguistic knowledge and limiting the extent and use of world knowledge , can usually achieve accurate results in ambiguity resolution . |
| 3 | Tom , likewise , was not searching for love . |
| 4 | Like so many of Byrd 's cantiones sacrae , ‘ Deus venerunt gentes ’ was not composed for church choirs to sing , and it will be no loss if 20th-century church choirs continue to ignore it . |
| 5 | Another was not called for interview : |
| 6 | Once only was I able to talk to Hayward de vive voix , and that was at the Institute of Contemporary Arts , when I referred again to the housekeeper problem ; but in the end , for reasons that I do not know , our Greek candidate , who might have been an admirable choice , was not summoned for interview . |
| 7 | This was not calculated for sleep position and breast feeding because of the similar exposure distribution of these two variables among Maori children and their controls ( table IV ) . |
| 8 | Anyway , it was not done for profit . |
| 9 | Listing the offices held by the pair was not done for information purposes — every five-year-old knew who they were — but to assert their authority . |
| 10 | Also with video we are quite likely to be using material which was not made for language teaching anyway and which will be full of visual elements we could exploit . |
| 11 | Until recently acetylcysteine was not recommended for use more than 15 hours after overdose , but there is now evidence that it can safely be given to patients up to 24 hours after ingestion and perhaps even later than this . |
| 12 | Thus co-ordinate indexing was not recommended for use in schools without very skilled staff being present to operate and coordinate its use . |
| 13 | He was not chosen for Republic of Ireland 's World Cup warm-up game against Switzerland because of the Barnsley match . |
| 14 | Hence the plan as such was not commended for implementation as suggested but was valued and to be retained as a tool against which the balances of visitors in the various regions could be measured . |
| 15 | And because all this money was not needed for war , it was available , and extensively used , to show its subjects that their monarchy lived in style and elegance . |
| 16 | ‘ Categorically he was not banned for life . |
| 17 | As in Ridker 's study , this correlation was not shown for PAI activity . |
| 18 | The car was not bought for resale , and the purchase was incidental to the company 's business as a freight forwarder ; it was only the second or third car bought by the company and so there was not the required degree of regularity . |
| 19 | Shildon was not waiting for Rain and the landlord had not seen anyone fitting his description . |
| 20 | Jos Hermens , agent and manager to Krabbe and Breuer , said later : ‘ The pack [ containing the samples ] that was used was not meant for doping control . |
| 21 | Hankin was promised an interview at the end of the season when the board made it clear he was not blamed for relegation . |
| 22 | I was n't looking for trouble . |
| 23 | No , sorry I was n't asking for view on the exercise done by Mr . |