Example sentences of "[verb] not [be] [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In general , estate development has not been studied for the pre-Conquest period — there are not enough documents and the field evidence is enigmatic . |
| 2 | That means that the product has not been optimised for the 80486 or for Pentium , and wo n't take account of new Pentium features such as the dual pipeline , or work around some of the clock cycle quirks that emerged in the behaviour of the 80486 post technical documentation . |
| 3 | That means that the product has not been optimised for the 486 or Pentium , and wo n't take account of Pentium features such as the dual pipeline , or work around some of the clock cycle quirks that emerged in the 486 post technical documentation . |
| 4 | On 2 February 1799 Parson Woodforde , by then in Norfolk , wrote in his diary : ‘ Such severe weather has not been known for the last sixty years till the present ’ . |
| 5 | As far as he knows Women in Love has not been adapted for the stage before , but already it is causing much interest from other theatres and companies . |
| 6 | A coherent strategy for retrospective conversion has not been attempted for the UK ( although it is known that there are stirrings of such an initiative in a European context , involving the British Library ) and lack of institutional funding for such unglamorous activities has ensured at best a piecemeal approach . |
| 7 | After all , in 1,189 densely-printed pages , space has not been found for a single illustration . |
| 8 | Meadowbank , which has not been used for a concert since 1989 , will host the return of the Prince of Pop and his band , the New Power Generation , who last year sold out Glasgow 's Celtic Park . |
| 9 | Yet even though in my part Welsh has not been spoken for a long time , and indeed the natives have even forgotten the Welsh pronunciation of our Celtic place-names , it would not cross my neighbours ' minds that just living there makes me Welsh . |
| 10 | The trophy for the ladies open has not been engraved for the last few years . |
| 11 | When I was twelve , and I got baptized , erm a lady gave me a little text and it was from Joshua chapter one and it was verse nine and it says have I not commanded you be strong and courageous do not be terrified , do not be discouraged for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go and that 's a verse that I 've been able to remember and to thank God for on so many different occasions all through my training as a doctor and it 's , all the promises in the bible are absolutely true and you can rely on them because it 's not a book written by men but it 's a book written by God . |
| 12 | The clothes had not been disturbed for a long time and were as thick and tangled as jungle foliage . |
| 13 | In a letter to the London gallery , The Edge , a DTI official stated that details of the case had been passed to Customs and Excise for them to consider whether an offence had occurred as a licence had not been granted for the photographs in the current exhibition . |
| 14 | The cottage had not been inhabited for a while . |
| 15 | I had not been prepared for a walk across a wasteland under a hot white sun . |
| 16 | Nathan had not been prepared for the bus trip into and out of the town and the long walk through the snow to a campsite either . |
| 17 | I had not been prepared for the volume of decisions I had to make . |
| 18 | But she had not been prepared for the intensity of her response . |
| 19 | But all the same , Sara had not been prepared for the girls ' curiosity about Matthew . |
| 20 | Gabriel said nothing ; she had not been looking for a life-story . |
| 21 | There were two posts allocated for social workers , but these had not been filled for a long time . |
| 22 | Dreams came true in many ways ; some made strokes which had not been played for the last 20 years , others took catches and some ran threes . |
| 23 | The official turnout was 74 per cent , although there were claims that many voters had not been registered for the ballot . |
| 24 | Mr Wormwood 's fine crop of black hair was now a dirty silver , the colour this time of a tightrope-walker 's tights that had not been washed for the entire circus season . |
| 25 | Lawrence was elected British president , and discharged his difficult task with a calmness , courtesy , and firmness which won universal approval , even from the defendants , the soldiers among whom thought that their problems were appreciated by one who had gained the DSO as a gunner officer in World War I. Praise was also given by the British alternate judge , Sir Norman ( later first Baron ) Birkett [ q.v. ] , who was secretly resentful that he had not been chosen for the post . |
| 26 | It was the smell of a hundred bodies that had not been bathed for a week , of a hundred sets of clothes that had been lived and slept in for a week , of excreta and vomit trapped by the windows that had not been opened for a week . |
| 27 | It was the smell of a hundred bodies that had not been bathed for a week , of a hundred sets of clothes that had been lived and slept in for a week , of excreta and vomit trapped by the windows that had not been opened for a week . |
| 28 | At some point during my stay in Wolverton there arose a rumour that the church of St James in the neighbouring railway-workers ' village of New Bradwell had not been consecrated for the performance of weddings . |
| 29 | London Ambulance Service workers claimed the system crash last October led to people 's deaths , but yesterday 's document said an examination of 26 cases considered by coroners ' courts showed the LAS had not been blamed for a single death . |
| 30 | Dust layered the bottom of the chamber pot ; it had not been used for a long time and was probably meant for show . |