Example sentences of "not [verb] for [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | a sentence is not autonomous , it does not exist for its own sake but as part of a situation and part of a text . |
| 2 | It does not make for your typical comic fare . |
| 3 | The old age of some industrial plants , many of which were not designed for their present use . |
| 4 | She could hardly believe it , and she could not wait for her next consultation to see what was going to happen next . |
| 5 | In a market , bargaining is constrained by threats of imminent termination of any existing or proposed contracts ; opportunism is controlled by the readiness of people to sever their dealings with other resource owners ; and continuity of an agreement between people is not valued for its own sake : transactions are administered in an impersonal way , typified by the ‘ faceless ’ bargaining of competitive market models . |
| 6 | Resentment from staff that families are not caring for their own , and guilt from relatives at not being able to do so can make communication awkward ( Clough , 1981 ) . |
| 7 | The World Bank is not celebrated for its radical reforming zeal . |
| 8 | It is an offence for a shopkeeper to sell solvent based products to anyone under the age of 18 , if they know , or have reasonable cause to believe , that the products are to be abused , and not used for their normal purpose . |
| 9 | INSIDER DEALING Journalists should not use for their own profit financial information they receive professionally in advance of its general publication . |
| 10 | They did not look as though they were suckering in the baleful way that the ordinary stag's-horn sumach does , but as I have not grown either myself yet , I can not vouch for their good behaviour . |
| 11 | Then he may still not vote for his preferred alternative if there are positive net costs to voting . |
| 12 | Efford , challenging Peter Bottomley in marginal Eltham , is a London taxi driver — a breed not noted for its left-wing sympathies . |
| 13 | The path is deeply etched all the way along the ridge , but walkers need not look too guiltily at their boots — like many others in the area , the path was formerly a packhorse route and horses are not noted for their ecological delicacy . |
| 14 | But those who inhabit the criminal underworld are not noted for their good manners . ’ |
| 15 | The argument , although thought-provoking , was not watertight ; panegyrics are not noted for their chronological reliability — and besides there could have been more than one battle against the Alamans . |
| 16 | Although our debates on this subject have attracted a flurry of interest , attendances at debates on the European Community are not noted for their large size . |
| 17 | While other people waste time injecting their five-second expertise into decisions which do not call for their real expertise , the Profitboss gets ahead with his own expert profit-orientated decisions . |
| 18 | But this would be to simplify things for , as I have argued , black kids generally come from the kind of family backgrounds which are not suited for their own educational needs — for reasons which I spelled out in the last chapter , but will summarize as ‘ neglect ’ or ‘ unattainable goals ’ . |
| 19 | That way , they query nothing and never answer back ; as a result they are not known for their political judgement , but , during the Depression they were jolted into social awareness . |
| 20 | Barnsley are not known for their fancy football or flair , but they 're well drilled and organised and Oxford just could n't find a way through . |
| 21 | Two disciplines not known for their loving attachment to high , or any other height , technology . |
| 22 | Mind you , not known for their generous pay awards , these Councils according to the government are a main obstacle to economic hope and prosperity in Britain . |
| 23 | Tough it may be , but Washington is one who defied the odds to achieve world status in a sport not known for its liberal representation of blacks . |
| 24 | Soon Richard Darman , the budget director not known for his light touch , will resume his attack . |
| 25 | The system outlined by Lord Donaldson , a man not known for his left tendencies , bears marked similarities to those operated in a number of eastern bloc countries . |
| 26 | When the Military Service Act was introduced in January 1916 , the Labour Party Conference , while dissenting , agreed not to campaign for its reappeal , thus enabling the Party leader , Arthur Henderson , to remain in the Coalition Government . |
| 27 | Why should the Tory party not pay for its own advertising out of party political funds rather than constantly using taxpayers ' money to try to get its message across ? |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm not swinging for your two crazy brothers , Bill . |
| 29 | Their Lordships endorse this statement of the manner in which the court should exercise its exceptional jurisdiction to halt criminal proceedings and , except in one respect , they prefer not to offer for their own account any further exploration of the prior authorities . |
| 30 | On this occasion he had not allowed for his four-year-old son Robert , who piped up : ‘ The vestry is where Daddy does the toilet before the service . ’ |