Example sentences of "not [verb] for [adj] [art] " in BNC.

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1 So we 're not looking for little every little error that a person makes .
2 Our customers are many and varied , ranging from domestic pets to farm animals and even an occasional exotic animal — like the lion that was brought from a travelling circus with a cut foot , and caused consternation amongst our more regular clients ; they were not prepared for such a large cat sitting in the back of a Land Rover in our car park .
3 Though one can not claim for Green the sublimity of Turner , the clarity of Cotman or the magnificence of Constable , he was one of the most faithful topographical artists to paint the Lake District .
4 The consent of the seller is not needed for such an assignment .
5 Though I had small scale maps at three inches to a mile for some areas they are not produced for all the Sahara , nor could I have afforded the hundred pounds they would have cost if they had been .
6 Even she had not bargained for such an insult as this !
7 This may be so for some cultures where the taboos of the kind mentioned by Freud exist , but it can not account for all the taboos and rites surrounding the dead in cultures where the dead are seen as more friendly .
8 Psychoanalytic theory reached a point where it could not account for all the observations made within the analytic setting , nor for the murdering impulses shown in mankind 's historical and cultural development .
9 These changes in metabolic rate affect our rate of physiological time , although they can not account for all the changes in time perception we experience as we age .
10 Also , it can not account for all the regions of the universe .
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