Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb pp] for [noun pl] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The things I do are not recommended for children or anyone to do at home . |
| 2 | The finest bronze castings of Shang China and arguably of all time were not made for implements or even weapons , but for the ritual vessels centred on the cult of ancestors . |
| 3 | A child is not born for reasons and it will not fit even the prettiest box assigned to it by its determined providers . |
| 4 | In the upstairs passage she opened the long case clock , knowing very well it was broken , that the weights had not descended for years and the hands remained at twenty to one . |
| 5 | It was air into which farts and old food odours had been released , but which was completely inert , as though in some way lacking ions or ozone , because the air conditioner had not worked for years and the windows were sealed . |
| 6 | It was like discovering an old trick , something he had n't done for years and had thought was dead — unnerving but not entirely unpleasurable . |
| 7 | When he had first examined me , my GP had suggested vitamins and we discussed the facts that I had n't smoked for years and that , on the whole , my food was n't too bad . |
| 8 | Farming methods in this area of Moldavia have n't changed for decades and the primitive machinery has meant poor harvests . |