Example sentences of "do [not/n't] [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And even that did not make for encouraging listening . |
| 2 | I decided that she had never really liked Richard and wrote her an angry letter attacking a Labour politician I knew she particularly admired , saying he did not care for Socialist principles and was no more than a cunning man who would do anything for power . |
| 3 | He did not gain many public commissions , because he did not care for architectural competitions . |
| 4 | Barton did not care for Indian food and ate sparingly from the vegetarian buffet . |
| 5 | Maldon were met with stiffer resistance in the second half and did not score for 20 minutes , until scrum-half Willcocks dived over in the corner . |
| 6 | There , I did not eat for two weeks , and Bothwell 's children — there were two babies — were born dead . |
| 7 | Octreotide concentrations dueing CSOI did not change for two hours after meal consumption ( results not shown ) . |
| 8 | In the 1880s , the large herds of the kingdom of Karagwe in western Tanzania were severely depleted by rinderpest , and did not recover for several decades . |
| 9 | Crawford stormed out and did not return for two weeks , and then only to pick up his mail . |
| 10 | The twenty heads of British missions abroad in 1816 , when the effects of the country 's long political isolation during the Napoleonic wars were still being felt , had increased to thirty-seven by 1860 ( mainly because of the emergence of new independent states in Latin America ) ; but the changes of the 1860s swept away many of the smaller legations in Germany and Italy , and the establishment of diplomatic representatives in China , Japan and one or two other non-European countries in the second half of the century did not compensate for these losses . |
| 11 | Earlier Neil Kinnock , the Labour leader , hoped it would be demonstrated that Sir Nicholas did not speak for other Tories ‘ because the gutter language he used is not fit for anyone standing for a democratic party ’ . |
| 12 | Biddy did not speak for some time , and stood considering them in a way that made them all feel about half their usual size . |
| 13 | Sesostris did not speak for some time . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , we did not anticipate the importance of observer bias , and we did not arrange for third party blinded observation . |
| 15 | And we did not stop for four days , discussing every detail , going over every bit of ground . |
| 16 | More than usually generous credit terms may have to be offered , and although we did not allow for introductory discounts in our example , these may have to be offered to induce custom , with the degree of generosity perhaps varying by assessment of likelihood of payment and repeat orders . |
| 17 | The analysis did not allow for other components in the familial aggregation . |
| 18 | The programme was devised in response to feedback from the previous term 's courses on assertiveness and time management , which suggested that one day courses did not allow for adequate reflection on the issues , practice or follow up discussion . |
| 19 | Helens ' overall allocation was low because it did not bid for new places and put any proposals to tackle its serious surplus place problem . |
| 20 | Like Audubon , Lear did not plan for accompanying text : this was to be a purely pictorial study of a single species . |
| 21 | However , 1792 did not establish for all time antislavery as a movement of popular mobilisation demonstrated in the use of general public meetings . |
| 22 | His leader did not believe for one moment the protestations of innocence . |
| 23 | First , it was not an annual report but a one-off ; secondly , it did not call for more funding — |
| 24 | In 1990 and 1991 , it did not apply for any money from the top slice programme — for enveloping , for group repair and area renewal , for the homelessness reserve , for the reserve for private or defective dwellings or for priority estates . |
| 25 | ‘ It was done from my section and I am afraid I did not ask for sufficient permission . |
| 26 | I did not ask for more money — I was in Bayreuth at the time . ’ |
| 27 | This meant that , as a county , it was significantly smaller than it later became , and that ( in particular ) it did not include for local-government purposes the city of Oxford . |
| 28 | The opportunities of individual patronage may have been reduced , but few major writers from the time of Gay and Swift to that of George Crabbe did not look for such patronage or shape some composition toward the expectations of a patron . |
| 29 | It would be easy to dismiss ‘ softing ’ as an esoteric corner of the stock market which could be ignored , if it did not account for one deal in every six . |
| 30 | In the same issue of the Lancet , Astra replied that Glaxo 's new test was scientifically unsound because it did not account for normal cell division ( which would also stimulate DNA synthesis ) . |