Example sentences of "not [adv] [verb] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wrongful sale of goods subject to a hire-purchase agreement will constitute a repudiation and hence vest a right to immediate possession in the finance company even though the agreement does not expressly provide for this . |
| 2 | The Prime Minister is right — the Government are not wholly to blame for this recession , but they are chiefly to blame . |
| 3 | Vial did not apparently introduce for some time any regular system of instruction which would have concentrated the labours of the students . |
| 4 | The LDDC is not entirely to blame for this . |
| 5 | The number of neutrons was not enough to account for all the heat ( a fact that they had been aware . |
| 6 | Natural daylight is not enough to allow for this process . |
| 7 | Diana did not especially care for either of those activities and she did not ride , which kept the rest of the family amused . |
| 8 | ‘ Not much demand for that sort of business . |
| 9 | ‘ Not much call for these outside of Christmas , my love , ’ the grocer told me , dusting the boxes and rounding the outrageous total down to the nearest pound . |
| 10 | It was emphasised that this event was not only intended for those interested in ecumenical groups . |
| 11 | However , the law does not normally allow for any order to be made which will directly affect pension entitlements ( see Cretney and Masson , 1990 , pp. 405–7 ) . |
| 12 | Organised resistance to William in Scotland ceased , though the last clans did not formally submit for another 18 months . |
| 13 | If the training set also includes cats , dogs and cows , then we could not always ask for these values . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh , I 'm sure we could let you out for that , McAllister , ’ Dr Neil had said , only for Sally-Anne to murmur modestly that since she was already well treated for time off she could not possibly ask for more . |
| 15 | They not infrequently turn for some answers to the religion that they may have been introduced to in the past but have long since rejected . |
| 16 | Grass is not perfectly balanced for all types of horses all year round either . |
| 17 | They hijack Englishness and do not really speak for most English people . |
| 18 | Present them with a vision of a world in which meals were eaten at a table instead of on the knees before the flickering screen ; in which conversation was commonplace ; political and social ideas worked out by individuals , not spoon-fed into the mind by paid commentators ; a TV-less world in which we danced and sang and played charades to entertain ourselves or even popped round to the neighbours ; in which our children were not fed visions of death and dead bodies on the daily news , their infant imaginations no longer turned feverish and fearful by the sobs and sorrows of the bereaved ; nor subject to the cruel , disagreeable and frequently morbid fictional fantasies of others — would we not really vote for this ? |
| 19 | Well , I think he was good player — but playing in that Liverpool side was nt difficult , and he s not really played for any other side so its hard to tell exactly how good he is . |
| 20 | The force with which the judges made their case for Second Empire can be explained by assuming that they felt that if they did not strongly press for this form of building , another , and less welcome style in their eyes , would be adopted . |
| 21 | Not only does the site not have planning permission for office development but it is not even zoned for this use and would thus require a material contravention order or a Section 4 motion by the City fathers to allow any big office development here . |
| 22 | But with the shortage of such jobs , the system is turning out too many school graduates not well qualified for any other kind of work . |
| 23 | Not bad going for most in modern industrial times , but even more so for people like 28-year-old Ewan , from Hamilton , who has found a new job as a salesman . |
| 24 | Interesting though it is to be aware of the way in which these various theological traditions bear fruit in the mystics ' accounts of their experience , it is important to remember that they can not fully account for this experience . |
| 25 | It would also appear that the traditional British fleet had not previously fished for those stocks and was at that time still unable to exploit them fully . |
| 26 | Both are clearly unsatisfactory , but a practical and popular alternative has not yet emerged for either . |
| 27 | Expansion south towards the nearby colony of Maryland went on fast enough for a pair of surveyors , Mason and Dixon , to have to draw a boundary between the two in 1702 , though this line was not completely accepted for some decades . |
| 28 | The frequent complaint that ships , once requisitioned , were not actually used for several months , thereby denying their owners the use of them in between times , was not always the fault of the wind or weather . |
| 29 | These time-budget studies , as they are known , reveal that the amount of time that housewives spend on housework has not significantly changed for several decades . |