Example sentences of "not [verb] [to-vb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rode straight up to the gateway of the monastery , not daring to stop for second thoughts , and said to the first monk he saw , ‘ Can you read and write ? ’ |
| 2 | Walters knows well enough not to promise to deliver for general practitioners . |
| 3 | We do not need to wait for new efficient technology : as Stewart Boyle described in ‘ More work for less energy ’ ( New Scientist , 5 August 1989 ) , the technology exists to take the first step towards the targets we have set to save energy and fossil fuel , and to cut back on carbon dioxide emissions . |
| 4 | This owed something to the thoroughness with which Gloucester outmanoeuvred the opposition , which meant that he did not need to hunt for extra support . |
| 5 | This owed something to the thoroughness with which Gloucester outmanoeuvred the opposition , which meant that he did not need to hunt for extra support . |
| 6 | However , this is not expected to happen for some time and even when reform is introduced , the probability is that it will be phased in over a number of years . |
| 7 | The appeals panel is not expected to rule for several months . |
| 8 | The M two motorway remains closed between junctions five and six and is not expected to reopen for several hours . |
| 9 | He had not expected to pay for any drinks tonight . |
| 10 | Then I had to be honest , and say that I could not guarantee to work for longer than four months . |
| 11 | But for the activists in the Party and its affiliates , the integratory and mobilizing functions of the ‘ Hitler myth ’ were not confined to support for current attainments , but rested on the incorporation in Hitler of the ‘ idea ’ of Nazism itself , determining future utopias to be won as well as past glories achieved . |
| 12 | Black psychiatric nurses and doctors are not permitted to care for white patients ( according to a 1984 study ) while there were no psychiatrists of ‘ African ’ descent in 1982 . |
| 13 | Not prepared to settle for this result , Gorbachev renominated Yanayev . |
| 14 | ‘ Ken Barlow is one character I did not expect to survive for any great length of time , ’ said the Street 's creator Warren , 55 . |
| 15 | Economic Man , seeing two boxes of chocolates , of which one is cheaper because the manufacturer has not had to pay for consequential damage to some third party , would choose that cheaper box . |
| 16 | Ianthe was trying to imagine what the room would be like and where exactly the house would be but somehow did not like to ask for further details . |
| 17 | Perhaps ; but a typical reaction of the electorate at large could be more confidently predicted : " If your candidates ca n't agree among themselves we 're not going to vote for any of them " . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm not going to translate for either of you , ’ he said softly . |
| 19 | The working class were not going to fall for this one , and neither were their wives . |
| 20 | Davidson Davidson kind of claims this in semantics in natural languages which I suggested that you read , but Davidson puts the claim the other way round , that is there 's no more syntax than that structure needs in semantics and that 's just false , that 's just false because you 're not going to account for all the data I 've been talking about , about verb phrases . |
| 21 | Disgrace ‘ It is an absolute disgrace that these thugs terrorised defenceless animals for no reason at all and even threatened our staff who tried to intervene and we are not going to stand for that , ’ he said . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm not going to pay for all this . |
| 23 | The main thrust was to consolidate the company 's $53m debt into a low interest syndicated loan and a bond that would not begin to mature for two and a half years . |
| 24 | Tolkien had finished The Lord of the Rings by 1949 , though it was refused on his terms and did not begin to appear for another five years , on a non-royalty agreement — to be coolly received by reviewers at home and rapturously welcomed in that heartland of Anglo-Saxon romanticism , the United States of America . |
| 25 | Managers who never leave do not have to wait for another manager to retire or die so that they can fill their shoes . |
| 26 | ‘ We do not have to search for critical mass , ’ Sir Denys points out . |
| 27 | These days you do not have to go for matching suites of furniture in the dining room , any more than you have to go for three piece suites in the living room . |
| 28 | We do not have to look for conventional biological survival values of traits like religion , music , and ritual dancing , though these may also be present . |
| 29 | In department X the company would not have to pay for more labour hours but more will be worked ( instead of being idle ) . |
| 30 | I did not have to pay for this copy , so there is no need for you to send any money . |