Example sentences of "not [verb] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proposal was that His Majesty would invite certain individuals as individuals to take upon their shoulders the burden of carrying on the Government and Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Samuel ( sic ) had stated that they were prepared to act accordingly … the Administration would not exist for a period longer than was necessary to dispose of the emergency , and when that purpose was achieved the political parties would resume their respective positions . |
| 2 | I do not think for a moment that the Letter of Aristeas should be taken as a Festal Scroll , something like the Book of Esther , to be read in the Alexandrian synagogues every year on the day on which ( as we know from Philo ) the Alexandrian Jews commemorated the translation ( De vita Mosis 2.41 ) . |
| 3 | On scrutinising the notes of the 80 patients not referred for a specialist opinion we concluded that a nephrological opinion might have helped management in 17 cases . |
| 4 | She had not pressed for a statement at Westminster out of respect to his family . |
| 5 | Nenna did not answer for a second , and Tilda bellowed : |
| 6 | Taken by surprise , she could not answer for a moment and than said angrily , ‘ If you knew , why did n't you say something before ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ The whole point of this afternoon was to advertise my company , not to go for a jaunt along the river . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll be very disappointed if I 'm not competing for a place in the first one-day international on January 16 . |
| 9 | I am not suggesting for a moment that this kind of problem can be resolved merely by putting more resources in , but at the same time there is need to spend more money , perhaps . |
| 10 | I 'm not suggesting for a moment it does n't cross my mind nor has Mr suggested that there has been any er deliberate failures to disclose something which was thought was , which you 've got and was thought relevant , but it , things do turn out to be potentially relevant in the course of the court appearance |
| 11 | I 'm not suggesting for a moment that university people are n't as integrated as anyone else . |
| 12 | A tea bush requires constant attention : if not plucked for a year it can take two years to return to normal ; if bushes have to be uprooted , new ones take seven years to come into production . |
| 13 | We could not undress for a week in case of a submarine attack , and you all got a little cross , I remember . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've not come for a drink . |
| 15 | The Republic 's Foreign Minister Dick Spring yesterday insisted that Dublin was not pressing for a US envoy ‘ for the present ’ . |
| 16 | If the applicant is not applying for a grant there is no obligation to consult . |
| 17 | ‘ Not applying for a job with Hallmark cards , then , ’ I muttered to myself , sipping at my coffee . |
| 18 | Yo , you 're not applying for a job you are applying to erm go to Australia |
| 19 | in a family , you 're not applying for a job in a family , you 're applying work in a children in a group . |
| 20 | I am sure their bodies were not designed for a two- or three-week period out of the fifty-two weeks in a year , however important that period may be . |
| 21 | Marion does not qualify for a maintenance grant because her parents are well off , but they are also estranged , from each other and from her , so she is obliged to support herself at University with a variety of part-time jobs . |
| 22 | Dominique Strauss-Kahn , France 's trade minister , said his government would not act for a month but could demand retaliatory measures if the US acted . |
| 23 | The latter need not wait for a change of heart on the part of the Prime Minister , or the election of a new government , before translating guilt about the condition of those less fortunate than themselves into action . |
| 24 | But he did not wait for a reply before throwing himself to one side as a sabre whistled down and buried itself deep in the brickwork of the window sill where he had been sitting . |
| 25 | Sensibly he did not wait for a reply , since the possibilities were clearly endless . |
| 26 | She did not wait for a reply . |
| 27 | The post-mortems continue but the truth is , that from an operational viewpoint , the 1,500V DC Woodhead line is not missed for a moment . |
| 28 | ‘ I am not looking for a ghost . |
| 29 | So I 'm not looking for a response to what he says at this stage . |
| 30 | ‘ We 're not looking for a conflict . |