Example sentences of "do not [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edwards and Ladd ( 1983 ) suggest verbs do not inflect for tense or person in BSL , but though this is true for a number of verbs it is not true for some of the most frequently used verbs . |
| 2 | Now , I do not pretend for one moment that children should not be taught to add , subtract , read and think logically . |
| 3 | People who come into frequent contact with domestic animals may become transiently infected but the symptoms do not last for any appreciable period . |
| 4 | Carol , who has learned to manage her meagre budget as carefully as any accountant , exemplifies the deeper problem of Easterhouse behind the unemployment , said to be 30 per cent , but much higher when the unemployed 16- to 18-year-olds , those on invalidity benefit and people who do not register for non-existent work are taken into account . |
| 5 | Per capita distribution of wealth roughly followed this division , the industrial countries having the highest standard of living and the agricultural nations of the south and east the lowest , but the figures do not exist for precise comparisons . |
| 6 | About half of all part-timers earn below the limit , and therefore do not exist for national insurance purposes . |
| 7 | ‘ Do not go for lonely walks while I am away . ’ |
| 8 | Philip Healey , Acquisitions Monthly editor , said UK companies do not go for smaller acquisitions out of choice . |
| 9 | And this is quite unique when you go to South Africa and you see what 's happening that black leaders and blacks do not go for quick votes and quick solutions , we 're not trying to keep , tu turn people against whites . |
| 10 | There will always be a percentage of people who do not vote for various reasons . |
| 11 | The evaluation runs mentioned above indicate that the results with mid-class representations do not hold for connected speech . |
| 12 | Experimentally it is found that while Hooke 's law and its viscoelastic analogue of Boltzmann 's superposition principle hold adequately for very small strains ( typically less than 0.1 per cent ) they certain do not hold for large strains of 10 per cent or more . |
| 13 | Many new towns on the fringe of the affluent south-east are so heavily populated by young married couples that they simply do not cater for retired people in any of their social activities ; similarly , you may be pushed to find an under-30s ' club in a retirement village on the south coast . |
| 14 | Some prefer to feed from the tank bottom , or the midwater level , however , and if we do not cater for these fish they may find all the food gets eaten before any sinks down to them . |
| 15 | These films do not make for easy viewing . |
| 16 | Court permission has been granted to sell the property and advice is being sought as to the best way to approach this but the state of the building and the effects of the economic situation do not make for easy decisions . |
| 17 | Court permission has been granted to sell the property and advice is being sought as to the best way to approach this but the state of the building and the effects of the economic situation do not make for easy decisions . |
| 18 | The Building Regulations themselves do not make for easy reading , but there are various guides designed to explain them and the DoE now produce a Manual to the Building Regulations . |
| 19 | Theories do not make for liberating music . |
| 20 | The disconcerting ‘ first-disk ’ string sound may be down to miking difficulties ; likewise the booming timpani and overly forward woodwind , and these things do not make for comfortable listening . |
| 21 | Gandalf and the others do not ‘ catch up ’ with Frodo and Sam till chapter 5 of Book V , but then they continue once again to the 25th March , which the two hobbits do not reach for another three chapters . |
| 22 | Ideally , they do not wish for any interaction at all with the other kinds of superhuman beings . |
| 23 | The Civil Justice Review , on examining the arguments , recognised the need to assist people who do not qualify for legal aid funding , drew attention to the major advances that had been made in regulation policy so as probably to be able to control a contingency fee system and , on the basis of competition policy , considered whether it would be more desirable to devise more limited schemes under which lawyers would have a stake in the outcome of a case as an incentive . |
| 24 | At the second Special General Meeting held at Keele University on September 12th , the proposal to create a register of Dormant Members for members who cease active participation of funeral or embalming work but do not qualify for Retired Membership status was rejected . |
| 25 | Clearly compensation for people on low incomes is to be aimed only at those on income support , even though many disabled people have extra heating costs associated with their disability , and many others on low incomes , such as pensioners , may narrowly miss out because of small savings or because they do not qualify for means-tested benefits , but still live at income support level . |
| 26 | Gifts made within three years of death do not qualify for any relief and the tax will have to be paid in full . |
| 27 | This , however , is a misleading picture because many unemployed married women do not register with the employment exchanges because they do not qualify for any benefit . |
| 28 | Age-related widows ' pension is for younger widows , who do not qualify for full rate . |
| 29 | However , RAF and Gulf Trust spokesmen said the charity laws under which the trust was established allow for payment only in cases of need , and education trusts do not qualify for this . |
| 30 | The self-certification procedure may also be used to seek legal aid for related proceedings which do not qualify for free legal aid . |