Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then this mood would lift , and she could write appreciatively again : ‘ We get snatches of divine loneliness here … why not stay here for ever and ever , enjoying this immortal rhythm in which both soul and eye are at rest ? |
| 2 | Prominent advocates of ratification included EC Commission President Jacques Delors ( who declared on Aug. 28 that he " would not stay on for another mandate if the " no " vote won " ) and also both the RPR leader Jacques Chirac and the UDF leader Valéry Giscard d'Estaing , although many RPR and UDF members were opposed to ratification . |
| 3 | Now it is twelve o'clock and school is out and all those who do not stay behind for dinner are bounding down Trafalgar Street , the little ones paddling up to the Wellington-tops in the drifts left on either side by the snow plough . |
| 4 | This illustrates that the law does not exist simply for the protection of individuals , for if it did one would be able to refuse its help if one did not want it . |
| 5 | In order to maintain the authority of the teacher or librarian and to make pupils aware that microcomputers do not exist merely for playing games but have a wider range of educational applications , it is important for the librarian or teacher to have basic knowledge of microcomputers . |
| 6 | The reports of international commissions such as that of Brandt do not make up for this gap . |
| 7 | Mr Collor 's problem is that although money is no obstacle to his multi-million dollar campaign , it does not make up for the thousands of enthusiastic party militants campaigning for his rival . |
| 8 | The recent price recovery can not make up for that much lost ground . |
| 9 | In other words , technology does not make up for Europe 's high labour costs . |
| 10 | It will not make up for the insufficient level of public services that Cleveland has been given by BR . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ All Mr Fallon 's splutterings will not make up for those people who are on record waiting lists in Darlington . |
| 12 | It was obviously made to stand up with its foot on something which at first I could not make out for all the dust and dirt but eventually realised was a skull . |
| 13 | ‘ What 's wrong , Dane , did I hurt your macho pride by not sticking around for more ? |
| 14 | I despised the other actors for not sticking up for me , and for sniggering at the accent when I finally did it . |
| 15 | For movement and dance , the Pineapple Studios in the same part of town seems to be one of the best there is , though it is not intended primarily for dancers and actors — people from all sorts of professions come along to keep fit . |
| 16 | In one further case with concomitant gastric ulcer bleeding the specimen was not checked histologically for Dieulafoy 's disease . |
| 17 | As I said in an earlier chapter , the principle of speaking is not to go on for more than a few minutes without getting your audience to do something — applaud or laugh or raise their hands . |
| 18 | It is important not to go on for too long , or to leave difficult business unfinished . |
| 19 | As hard as Marshall try to convey the message of versatility in this type of combo , I defy anyone who plugs into it for the first time not to go straight for the overdrive sounds : ‘ If it 's a Marshall then it 's going to rock , whether it wants to or not ! ’ |
| 20 | And it 's the same idea in Confirmation that the gifts which you are given are not given just for yourself , they 're given to be used , and there 's no point in keeping them to yourself , you know . |
| 21 | But it 's awful , sir , not eating much for three days . |
| 22 | They did not remain so for long . |
| 23 | But it may not remain so for long , for there are already plans to develop a recreational complex on the island and to install a much-needed sewage treatment plant . |
| 24 | Few of us would be happy with a bank whose statements read ‘ Your account is in credit but will not remain so for much longer . ’ |
| 25 | It argues that renewable energies are not developed enough for a higher goal , but if more money for research was made available , the future could be very different . |
| 26 | Yet affairs which , perhaps , appeared to be progressing well enough were not to remain so for many more years . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , it must be recognized that co-operation by itself can not compensate entirely for inadequate funding . |
| 28 | Although they were eventually eaten , the Hamwic sheep were not reared primarily for eating , and there are lower quantities of fowl and poultry than at early- and middle-Saxon farms . |
| 29 | We can predict statistically how the atoms and photons will behave , but we can not predict accurately for each one of them — and , afterwards , we can not tell how each of them has behaved unless we look . |
| 30 | They have not won away for 24 games since they clinched the 1992 title , and there was never any prospect of them doing so yesterday once Ian Rush had struck after 24 minutes . |