Example sentences of "were [not/n't] [verb] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sixteen students were not looking for work at the time of the survey . |
| 2 | Despite a long tradition of education , there is still a lack of qualified teachers : in 1986 almost 400 teaching posts were not filled for lack of trained applicants . |
| 3 | It could be argued convincingly , for instance , that the nature conservation interest ( perhaps also the landscape appeal ) would be increased considerably if large expanses of the uplands were not exploited for agriculture ( nor forestry ) . |
| 4 | The explanation may be that the figurines were not intended for use as ornaments but were votives to he left in shrines : they had a symbolic , not an aesthetic , role to play . |
| 5 | Overall , little more than half of them were serious candidates put up by Fianna Fail , Fine Gael , Labour and the Progressive Democrats , and on the ballot paper they were not listed for convenience of identification in party groups ; the other candidates were outsiders . |
| 6 | It is likely that these poems were not sent for publication until Edwards and Richardson decided on a second volume . |
| 7 | The rights Westerners enjoyed were not reciprocated for Japanese abroad . |
| 8 | Because there was a shortage of pasture in many districts , cattle were allowed to wander freely to search for food , especially during the seasons when they were not wanted for agriculture . |
| 9 | I threw down my fibreglass extensions and made as polished an exit as possible , given that my huge orange plastic boots were not made for walking . |
| 10 | I understand that if a bookshop were not registered for VAT it would still be charged VAT by its suppliers but would not be able to reclaim either through Customs & Excise or by passing the charge on to its customers and therefore would face very heavy pressure on margins . |
| 11 | Indian patronage was further divided by the intended destination in India , for military cadets were not appointed for service in India at large , but to a particular presidency , each of which maintained its own army . |
| 12 | Patients with hyperplastic polyps only were not accepted for enrollment . |
| 13 | They were not shot for joyriding . |
| 14 | With one exception previous studies of acute renal failure were renal unit based and did not include those patients who were not referred for specialist opinion . |
| 15 | But he is afraid he have to correct Mr Browne on a matter of geography : the British troops were not waiting for war in the Kuwaiti desert ; that was the Iraqi troops . |
| 16 | All patients considered inoperable on the grounds of general health or with distant metastases or extension of the tumour into the bronchus were not considered for resection . |
| 17 | Of the 36 patients who were alive at the end of the study period and who were not considered for liver transplant , 26 had alcoholic liver disease ( 25 not abstinent , one abstinent , but with ischaemic heart disease ) and three had primary biliary cirrhosis ( in two of these advanced disease was manifest but one had additional psychiatric disease and one advanced cardiopulmonary disease ) . |
| 18 | Webbed feet were not designed for mountaineering , but after a few weeks the ducks had devised a method of hopping up the stairs one at a time , eating every morsel of bread along the way , until finally they were actually in my bedroom . |
| 19 | Unlike townspeople and those ‘ polluted ’ by foreign influences , the peasants were not targeted for persecution under the Pol Pot regime . |
| 20 | High standards of education were not needed for work among the ‘ neglected classes , to whom a more cultured ministry would have appealed less strongly ’ . |
| 21 | Court archives included much material of interest , but the people who consulted them were almost exclusively clerks who needed to establish points for cases : they were not used for history-making . |
| 22 | Nuclei that overlapped each other were not used for DNA measurements ( Fig 4 ) . |
| 23 | In some of the barns in these latter areas , the aisles were not used for storage but were shit off for some other purpose , such as housing the cattle . |
| 24 | One thing was for sure : they were n't dressed for snow . |
| 25 | ‘ You were n't looking for gold , were you ? ’ |
| 26 | She ca n't remember any but there again you were she were n't looking for green . |
| 27 | Now brackets were n't invented for algebra , they were invented for these normal numbers that we play with . |