Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [adv prt] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The recent price recovery can not make up for that much lost ground . |
| 2 | Hence the first floor is a sort of piano nobile , a recent and foreign innovation which did not catch on for very long in smaller English country houses . |
| 3 | For too long now , she had been starved of one particular need , the kind a respectable woman should not dwell on for too long , a deep-down need that only a man could satisfy . |
| 4 | The boy , unlike the dog , knew that the mud did not go on for ever ; beyond the bridge , the disused railway embankment along which they were walking became built up , so that water ran off it . |
| 5 | At times Ludens wondered whether this state of affairs might not go on for ever , whether he might not give up his job and become Marcus 's — what ? — friend , secretary , servant , dog . |
| 6 | After all , in a gruelling sport like wrestling you can not go on for ever . ’ |
| 7 | But it could not go on for ever , both of them knew that . |
| 8 | While the church dominated governing body of King 's College , London , did not object to Lyell 's geology , it sacked the theologian F. D. Maurice for suggesting that the indescribable torture of the damned might not go on for ever . |
| 9 | I shall not pursue the point here , but it can be developed into one of the explanations for why particular arms races stabilize and do not go on for ever — do not lead to predators pursuing their prey at Mach 2 and so on . |
| 10 | A project is a project , he wrote , and once it is begun it should be carried through to the end , regardless of doubts about meaning , doubts about long runs , or doubts about anything else , unless the body screams for you to stop , of course one can not go on for long against the screaming of the body , but then that merely means one has miscalculated , it merely means one has begun too soon or too late or perhaps that the entire project was a miscalculation . |
| 11 | Intel Corp 's storming first quarter figures ( see page seven ) have not gone down well everywhere , and Hancock Institutional Equity Services analyst Eli Sayegh reckons that there is not much more to go for in the stock : he yesterday downgraded Intel to sell from hold , saying he thinks the company is near peak operating margins at just over 40% , double the historical norm ; he said the company 's margins have been driven largely by a shift from the 80386 chip to the 80486 chip ‘ and this can not go on for too long ; ’ he reckons that Advanced Micro Devices Inc will immediately take 10% of the 80486 market with its planned clone , and could take as much as 25% over time ; his damper wiped $1.75 off Intel shares at $115.75 . |
| 12 | To avoid boredom one activity should not go on for too long , so always have a variety of activities ready . |
| 13 | Arsenal , having won the Cup and two Championships in four years , could not go on for much longer with the same team , and in 1933 Chapman 's major concern was to find replacements to keep the club on top . |
| 14 | Given Hoving 's long-standing jealousy of John Walsh , a former curator in the European paintings department who is now the director of the J. Paul Getty Museum , it is surprising that Walsh does not come in for more snide brickbats than a conversation Hoving cites with Getty , where the eccentric billionaire asks him if he would become the director of his museum . |