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

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1 They may suggest that you have no confidence in your argument or even that you ca n't make up your mind — and that does not make for much of an argument .
2 The methods they use , the mela shikar and the khedda , have not altered for thousands of years .
3 Faced with four alternative approaches to valuation — whether it should be based on capital values , rental values , maintenance costs or rebuilding costs — its choice was not to go for one of them , or even a mixture of two of them , but to go for all four of them .
4 A young childless widow who does not qualify for either of these benefits will no longer be entitled to the weekly national insurance benefit even for the first 26 weeks .
5 She would not jump for any of the others , not even Nutty .
6 This could be done , and the lord would be in a position to rack-rent , if there was any demand for land , and although this latter condition was not met for much of the fifteenth century , it did apply as the sixteenth century advanced .
7 And he will answer , ‘ I tell you this : anything you did not do for one of these , however humble , you did not do for me. , Matthew 25 : 31 — 46 New English Bible
8 But Jesus said , ‘ anything you did not do for one of these , however humble , you did not do for me . ’
9 Jesus Christ said : ‘ Anything you did not do for one of these , however humble , you did not do for me . ’
10 " Why not work for one of the papers in our group in South Wales ? "
11 ‘ As long as he 's not fixing for another of his boys to play around with this alternative route through the mountains , ’ I said .
12 But this would not happen for tens of thousands of years , because of the slowness of the upwelling currents .
13 Anyway , GPs are not trained for either of these .
14 ‘ But not planning for much of a rest , ’ he observed quietly , glancing at the bulging plastic bag .
15 These results indicate that a pretranslational mechanism contributes to the reduction in ATF1 protein levels observed during differentiation but may not account for all of the reduction .
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