Example sentences of "not [adv] [vb infin] for [adj] " 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 | Vial did not apparently introduce for some time any regular system of instruction which would have concentrated the labours of the students . |
| 3 | But statistics do not necessarily make for good intelligence . |
| 4 | Good science does not necessarily make for good philosophy . |
| 5 | THERE was an article in The Times the other day which said that good spelling did not necessarily make for good writing . |
| 6 | Hand-made panels do not necessarily make for better cars . |
| 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 | American women , they learned , did not much care for murky colours but wanted bright yellows and apple greens , vibrant colours which were hardly used at all in Europe . |
| 9 | They can not only compensate for declining liquor sales , but can even arrest and reverse that trend . |
| 10 | Ideally the initial investigation should be total colonoscopy as this will not only examine for malignant lesions but offers an opportunity to assess the mucosa for angiodysplasia . |
| 11 | Although many of the larger integrated securities firms such as UBS Philips & Drew , Barclays de Zoete Wedd , Warburg Securities and Hoare Govett do not generally cater for private clients now , many other firms do , offering a whole range of services including advisory or discretionary fund management . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | This may be a source of embarrassment ; people do not usually meet for social or business purposes dressed in this way . |
| 14 | Organised resistance to William in Scotland ceased , though the last clans did not formally submit for another 18 months . |
| 15 | If the training set also includes cats , dogs and cows , then we could not always ask for these values . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 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 | Until now , the museum has exhibited only 900 of the 32,000 works it actually owns , though 17,000 of these are drawings , videos and photographs which do not really qualify for permanent showing . |
| 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 | We would not even pass for distant cousins let alone members of the same nuclear family unit . |
| 22 | Those whose husbands are earning will not even qualify for supplementary benefit . |
| 23 | Although Priddle was able to say where most of Britain 's exports of plutonium were destined , he could not immediately account for 0–75 tonnes of plutonium from British Nuclear Fuel 's military reactors at Chapelcross and Calder Hall , which has gone overseas . |
| 24 | Even the Diet did not immediately call for offensive action against Russia , but it decided to do so when the tsar refused to negotiate on the basis of anything less than abject Polish submission . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Even opting out of the social chapter to undercut the core on labour costs will not ultimately compensate for complete isolation . |