Example sentences of "was not [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | Tom , likewise , was not searching for love . |
| 32 | Only the second ball of the over was not hit for four . |
| 33 | ‘ I heard on good authority that Albert Reynolds sent an emissary to the north to make sure it was understood that Spring was not speaking for the government . |
| 34 | This method has also shown that a similar pattern of damage was caused to the DNA in human cells for the complex 9 whereas damage to intracellular DNA was not detected for the complex 10 ( 9 ) . |
| 35 | It was not to last for long . |
| 36 | This era was not to last for long . |
| 37 | But her happiness was not to last for long . |
| 38 | Well , the point was as I recollect it , er that my understanding as far as the County Council 's case was concerned , was that er the village was not inset for E Ten purposes , it was inset to recognize what the County perceived as the physical reality of this being a substantial built-up area which fulfilled no greenbelt functions . |
| 39 | The pastry crust that had topped the pie during its parade through the village was not eaten for hygienic reasons , so 50,000 squares of puff pastry had been baked separately and these were reheated — not too successfully — in a mobile oven in the huge open-sided marquee into which the pie , on its trailer , eventually came to rest . |
| 40 | On the one hand it would be perfectly in order to write the biography of a poet as long as it is understood that it would be ‘ on a par with biographies of generals and inventors ’ ( Tomashevsky 1978 : 55 ) and was not mistaken for literary science . |
| 41 | I was not aiming for any distant target , and nor does natural selection . |
| 42 | Like so many of Byrd 's cantiones sacrae , ‘ Deus venerunt gentes ’ was not composed for church choirs to sing , and it will be no loss if 20th-century church choirs continue to ignore it . |
| 43 | Specific ethical approval was not obtained for physiological recordings , which were considered part of clinical management . |
| 44 | Strong and prescient words , yet Marsh was not calling for a halt to all human interference . |
| 45 | The following day , before the final results were declared , Madani demanded the dissolution of the National Assembly after his party 's surprise victory , although he stressed that he was not calling for the replacement of President Chadli Bendjedid , whose third five-year term would not expire until 1993 . |
| 46 | Suppose that my friend was not looking for me at all . |
| 47 | He told himself he was not looking for a lover , but simply the opportunity to tell Resenence about the dream . |
| 48 | The British government argued that if a major change in the system of documentation was not called for , but only minor incidental adjustments , such adjustments would be different in kind from those at present allowed by law . |
| 49 | Another was not called for interview : |
| 50 | She felt she should offer to help , while knowing her help was not called for . |
| 51 | Ha that darling , was not called for ! |
| 52 | Once only was I able to talk to Hayward de vive voix , and that was at the Institute of Contemporary Arts , when I referred again to the housekeeper problem ; but in the end , for reasons that I do not know , our Greek candidate , who might have been an admirable choice , was not summoned for interview . |
| 53 | This could be done , and the lord would be in a position to rack-rent , if there was any demand for land , and although this latter condition was not met for much of the fifteenth century , it did apply as the sixteenth century advanced . |
| 54 | This was not calculated for sleep position and breast feeding because of the similar exposure distribution of these two variables among Maori children and their controls ( table IV ) . |
| 55 | Together with this evidence must be the proof that the passenger was not licensed for that class of vehicle etc . |
| 56 | Unfortunately shrinkage of revenue from these sources was not compensated for by growth of revenue from the notional 1 per cent VAT on a common base because consumption expenditures were accounting for a declining share of the GNP of the EC . |
| 57 | This was not done for players with less than ten years ' service and a longer period was usually required . |
| 58 | Anyway , it was not done for profit . |
| 59 | Listing the offices held by the pair was not done for information purposes — every five-year-old knew who they were — but to assert their authority . |
| 60 | This was not done for imperial purposes , but once the navy had been developed it affected everything that happened in English policy . |