Example sentences of "not [verb] for [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | each has a separate thumbnail file , and if one does not exist for any given image , PhotoFinish creates one . |
| 2 | The NIMBY ( not in my back yard ) attitude , whether at home or abroad , does not make for good environmental policy . |
| 3 | The undeniable literary qualities of the novel did not compensate for these ideological shortcomings . |
| 4 | As I hope to demonstrate , while a familiarity with research findings may provide important new insights they can not substitute for sound professional judgement nor can they solve some of the inherent tensions and ethical dilemmas inherent in this area of work . |
| 5 | erm on the social services issue , yes , indeed , we have chosen not to provide for additional statutory duties that the government has imposed on us with no erm accompanying finance . |
| 6 | Statistical and research data [ s.33(6) ] is exempt from the subject access provisions , but not registration , provided that the data is not disclosed for any other purpose . |
| 7 | Such restrictive terms will be upheld by the courts only if they are reasonable , such as when a computer programmer working for a bank agrees not to work for another similar bank within a five mile radius for the first year following the termination of his employment . |
| 8 | The self-certification procedure may also be used to seek legal aid for related proceedings which do not qualify for free legal aid . |
| 9 | Units which sought to establish themselves outside such a plan would not only not receive public money ; they would also not qualify for any other public benefits . |
| 10 | By now certain that Meehan and Griffiths were the murderers of Mrs Ross , the Crown Office in Edinburgh issued a statement that with Griffiths 's death and Meehan 's arrest , they were not looking for any other suspects in connection with the Ayr murder — thus , said Nicky , prejudging the very issue that was to come to trial . |
| 11 | Police say they found a hammer in the house and are not looking for any other weapon . |
| 12 | I am looking for a Leeds United match programme … not looking for any particular but I would prefer the most recent or a forthcoming copy . |
| 13 | They are not looking for some chopped-down Open University course . ’ |
| 14 | The draughtsman no doubt had in mind to cover what he would have called all bona fide transfers , that is to say transfers which would be regarded by the Revenue as not made for any fiscal purpose which they would regard as improper . |
| 15 | The unequal treaties did not provide for this growing complexity , but it was clearly reflected in a process of treaty revision negotiation which , despite its ultimate success , did little to reassure Japan regarding the benevolence of Western intentions . |
| 16 | The values of dissociation constants given in Table I are not corrected for this measured activity of the enzymes . |
| 17 | However , in order to accept that such examples are evidence in favour of a Stem + Lexical Rules Hypothesis of entries in a mental lexicon , it is necessary to show that similar patterns of dissociation do not occur for other word-final fragments . |
| 18 | If , the Hopf bifurcation does not occur for any positive r , and are stable for all otherwise C " + are stable in and unstable in . |
| 19 | Not to look for sophisticated legal arguments while people are being shot and killed in the streets . |
| 20 | Libraries are not used for general scanning-type purposes but only for specific tasks . |
| 21 | This was highlighting the fact , that although , er , Freud thought psychoanalytic should be used in a neutral nerve and not used for any active aggression , an exception seemed to be made with Woodrow Wilson . |
| 22 | Will hon. Members please leave the Chamber quietly if they are not remaining for this ten-minute motion ? |
| 23 | The premiere had not called for any great celebration , even the soi-disant Louise Müller being in subdued spirits after her confession . |
| 24 | But I stress that this is a negative agreement — B by agreeing not to negotiate for this fixed period with a third party , locks himself out of such negotiations . |
| 25 | They did not hope for any tangible support for their undertaking , but a charter would give them some standing in England , allow them to create a legal government , and possibly convince any enquiring Spaniards that they were not simply setting up a pirate base . |
| 26 | I was not aiming for any distant target , and nor does natural selection . |
| 27 | You are not aiming for some exact scientific precision ( if absolute precision is needed , you can use pen and paper ) , but you are meeting and communicating with another adult human being . |
| 28 | He effectively cast his own vote against the Islamic trend by calling on his subjects not to vote for extremist religious ideologies — a move which could prove counter-productive . |
| 29 | Theoretically this influence could have been eliminated by including controls ( patients ) who were not scheduled for biliary/ hepatic surgery . |
| 30 | A straightforward explanation for this is that inflation affects all voters whereas unemployment tends to be heavily concentrated on ( as far as the UK is concerned ) areas not noted for extensive Conservative support . |