Example sentences of "not [verb] for [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Downes himself could not stay for more than a few minutes . |
| 2 | There is nothing wrong with this ; the Commons is , after all , the nearest thing we have to a democratic assembly , but it does not make for thorough and well-informed debate . |
| 3 | In 1911 , the nation 's leading economic journal noted : " the money wages of seamen in many ports have not altered for twenty or thirty years . |
| 4 | With Ian Botham and Dean Jones , to name but two of their expensively-acquired team , they will not lack for attractive or high-class cricketers . |
| 5 | Unfortunately life is never simple — the Stores Platoon confirms that they have no Challenger engines in stock and that the next one is not expected for three or four days ; improvisation will obviously be needed if the Blues and Royals are to have all their tanks working . |
| 6 | Even if they were noted , they might not survive for longer than the solution of the particular case or point . |
| 7 | A senior officer said : ‘ We have not exhausted all our enquiries yet and we do not know for certain if those ransom calls were the work of cranks . |
| 8 | Camilla 's sister , Annabelle Elliott , admitted that she does not know for sure whether there is any truth in rumours of a relationship with Prince Charles . |
| 9 | Then , when price is low firms do not know for sure whether it was because someone cheated ( produced a larger than agreed output ) , or because demand was low . |
| 10 | She thought that her father probably now earned more than £100,000 a year , but she did not know for sure because it was nine years since she had last visited him , four years since she had last received a Christmas card from him . |
| 11 | The attack took place on April 30th and was not reported for more than a month . |
| 12 | He grew dirtier than ever and often would not shave for three or four days together , till his jaw looked coated or grown over with yellow fungus or sprayed like a car with glistening tangerine . |
| 13 | Edwards and Ladd ( 1983 ) suggest verbs do not inflect for tense or person in BSL , but though this is true for a number of verbs it is not true for some of the most frequently used verbs . |
| 14 | ‘ Sources close to the ‘ artiste ’ suggest the decision to cancel the tour was not made for glamorous or news-worthy reasons , like police/local authority objections or fear on the streets of Britain … just that he ca n't be arsed . ’ |
| 15 | Moreover no proper name can fulfil its function as a proper name without certain descriptions that specify the conditions under which the name in question can be significantly applied , but it does not follow for this that names are ultimately " reducible " to descriptions ; i.e. that , in the final analysis , there is no real difference between them at all . |
| 16 | However , the fact that the futures contract for June settlement continued to trade at a 26-point premium to ‘ fair value ’ ( 23 points — the notional premium for buying all Footsie stocks now , but not paying for two and a half months ) indicates that most pundits see the market making further headway after Easter . |
| 17 | However , this will often conflict with the vendor 's desire to ensure that such assets are not sold for more than their tax written down value , otherwise the vendor may be liable to a balancing charge ( see , eg , s4 Capital Allowances Act 1990 regarding industrial buildings and s24 regarding plant and machinery ) . |
| 18 | All she knew was that she was cold and hungry and thirsty , that she had not slept for more than few minutes at a time and that all her thoughts were with Tristram . |
| 19 | Bouch can not vouch for this but suggests the number of visitors might have exceeded the available accommodation which in turn put prices up . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm not asking for advice– but I want to talk through something with you . |
| 21 | I 'm not asking for more than any other 22-year-old — just the same . ’ |
| 22 | Exactly how it happened we still do not known for sure but you can find examples of the kind of organisms it produced in almost any patch of fresh water . |
| 23 | Although it is not known for certain whether Yazid was present at Karbala , he is cast by the Shiites as the author of the incident , and the name is to this day a favourite Shiite epithet for a Sunni adversary — it was used in this sense during the 1980s war by the Tehran leadership when referring to that in Baghdad . |
| 24 | It is not known for certain if the male and female form a pair bond . |
| 25 | My grandmother was taken ill with a burst ulcer and an ambulance was called for her at 10.45 , but it did not arrive for two and a half hours . |
| 26 | I had not asked for that and , even if I had , my chances of obtaining them would have been zero . |
| 27 | Now of that hundred and twenty five thousand revenue spending which would be coming out of County Council to match what is likely to happen in the five B programme , most of that , most of that is on economic development activities , now the kind of way we can find that money without going to the authorities and asking for growth funding , because this Committee has not asked for any and that is not common in all the committees in the Council , is actually by finding it out of things like our monies , and other projects , actually funding it yourself as a Committee , funding the ability to draw in European money into Shropshire . |
| 28 | They spread between people by coughing , sneezing and kissing but they can not live for more than a few seconds outside the body . |
| 29 | She has not worked for nine and a half years , since she gave up a clerical post in accounts with a large company to have her first child . |
| 30 | The heat did not last for more than a few seconds , and when it had passed , Ciparis was left in an awful solitude , his cries for help going unanswered as the city burned above him . |