Example sentences of "not be [verb] for the [adj] " 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 | Further promoter deletions have not been analysed for the murine NF-L gene to permit a functional comparison to be made of the minimal regulatory sequences that are needed for neuronal-specific expression in human and mouse genes . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In this they may have been not entirely alone , but it is a serious charge , and it would be a brave man who would assert that it could not be substantiated for the British audio-visual scene as well . |
| 5 | The same could not be said for the pre-tournament favourite , Jose Maria Olazabal , who added a 75 to his opening 76 . |
| 6 | The same can not be said for the Labour party which fought the previous two elections on a programme that the hon. Member for Walsall , South ( Mr. George ) said was disastrous and should have been consigned to the rubbish heap . |
| 7 | The hon. Gentleman spoke for himself , which can not be said for the hon. Member for Rugby and Kenilworth ( Mr. Pawsey ) , who is not in his place , the Back-Bench chairman of the Conservative party education committee . |
| 8 | Contracting for other parts of the group , and even other manufacturers , provides a good half of the company 's income , and , just as importantly , enables it to invest in a high level of machinery which could not be justified for the volatile business of light aircraft manufacturing alone . |
| 9 | It simply would not be tolerated for the old style to continue at the expense of progress . ’ |
| 10 | But this is a case where the stratigraphical wood can not be seen for the nomenclatural trees . |
| 11 | We pointed out earlier that such a proposal can not be accepted for the prenominal case because the prenominal and the clause structures are far from equivalent ; they admit different ranges of adjective , and the relation of the adjective to the head noun is different in the two cases . |
| 12 | They are pieces of writing which are distinct in law ; the author of the one could not be sued for the other , or for collaborating in it . |
| 13 | He was worried about the enormous expense involved , and he asked whether St James 's Palace , now empty , could not be used for the Foreign Office . |
| 14 | Therefore , while defensive measures must not be abandoned for the foreseeable future , we firmly believe sustainability will only be achieved by injecting an environmental imperative into the developmental process . |
| 15 | This is all the more requisite as there are certain uses in which the to infinitive can not be substituted for the bare form ( e.g. ( 13 ) ) and , vice versa , where the bare infinitive can not replace its counterpart with to , as in ( 14 ) . |
| 16 | The commentaries would not be designed for the general reader but for the specialist , who , looking up Zapp , would find that the book , article or thesis he had been planning had already been anticipated and , more likely than not , invalidated . |
| 17 | We 're going to erm , item three , the supermarket applications , now under youth grants , you remember that we advertised , this is the money we precepted , which we wo n't be using for the detached youth work workers ' scheme . |
| 18 | ‘ We wo n't be working for the whole evening , Ingrid , ’ said Suzi quickly . |