Example sentences of "not [adv] [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Politicians are not wholly to blame for failing to know the British . |
| 2 | The Prime Minister is right — the Government are not wholly to blame for this recession , but they are chiefly to blame . |
| 3 | The LDDC is not entirely to blame for this . |
| 4 | However , it is surely necessary to agree also with Davies 's further observation that , to recognize the underlying force of such relatively informal and open modes of teaching is not necessarily to argue for a return to earlier more authoritative and intransitive modes . |
| 5 | It is not enough to weep for ourselves ; we have to be able to weep for others . |
| 6 | The number of neutrons was not enough to account for all the heat ( a fact that they had been aware . |
| 7 | Formal links between sentences , then , are not enough to account for our feeling that a stretch of language is discourse . |
| 8 | Natural daylight is not enough to allow for this process . |
| 9 | That was not enough to compensate for the oppressive opulence of the dark panelling and heavy antique furniture . |
| 10 | Gilly finds an excuse for going back to Mr Randolph 's house and she manages to steal the rest of his money , but there is still not enough to pay for her ticket to San Francisco . |
| 11 | Nothing daunted , Havelock Wilson , having just returned from his foreign travels , accompanied by Tom Mann , recently released from gaol following a term of imprisonment for inciting troops to mutiny , set off to visit four or five provincial ports , not only to appeal for funds for the London men , but also to persuade workers at these ports to join in and make the strike a national one . |
| 12 | Candidates in local elections can expect their followers not only to vote for them but to campaign for them as well . |
| 13 | He had a substitute not only to run for him when batting but also to field for him . |
| 14 | The orphanage 's overriding function was not only to care for the destitute but also to protect society from dangerous children as there was a fear that roaming , unsupervised youngsters posed a threat to social order . |
| 15 | Ptr. , 1960 S.L.T. ( Notes ) 3 , where the executor of a deceased licence holder to whom the licence had been transferred failed , through inadvertence , not only to apply for a renewal at the next half-yearly meeting , but also to request a licensing court to deal with the matter at an adjourned meeting . |
| 16 | Mr Lawson is not solely to blame for the uncertainty and muddle . |
| 17 | But they were not even to stay for the rest of that year . |
| 18 | The Commissioner is not there to canvass for work , but she does consider that publicity is a valid function of her office . |
| 19 | Michael Connell QC , defending , had focused on the video nasty theme , saying ‘ This man is not completely to blame for his actions . |
| 20 | Certainty was not however to last for in Metropolitan Properties ( F. G. C. ) Ltd. v. Lannon Lord Denning M.R. ‘ rescued ’ Lord Hewart 's reasonable suspicion test . |
| 21 | That is n't enough to account for the difference between £27.25 to hire a Cessna 152 for an hour at Canterbury NZ and £76.85 for a similar machine at Cambridge UK ( just to take one example ) . |
| 22 | Something like that , trying to remember now what it was , sixteen hundred , sixteen hundred that was it and it says your credit limit is sixteen , sixteen , you could spend up to sixteen hundred pounds , whether you got it or not you can spend it , so we said if we 're gon na get this computer because you get these Air Miles out of it , you know , every ten pounds you get an Air Mile , well if he 's getting a computer over a thousand pounds you know with all the paraphernalia that goes with it , well that 's a lot of Air Miles there , well we said we 'll get it through Access , but there is n't , our credit limit on Access is n't enough to pay for the computer , sixteen hundred it 's more than sixteen hundred , in , in the long , once he 's got his printer and God knows what you know , so I phoned them up and he said erm is it possible to adjust the limit upwards ? |