Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About half of all part-timers earn below the limit , and therefore do not exist for national insurance purposes . |
| 2 | Without following Jakobson 's analysis in detail — it does not make for easy reading — I shall simply give examples of the sort of relationship he identifies under each of these headings . |
| 3 | The Building Regulations themselves do not make for easy reading , but there are various guides designed to explain them and the DoE now produce a Manual to the Building Regulations . |
| 4 | These films do not make for easy viewing . |
| 5 | But that would not make for easy writing , still less reading . |
| 6 | But the use of inexpertly laid and brightly coloured bricks , token pitched roofs and arched windows does not make for likeable architecture . |
| 7 | Still , one can see him becoming more loath to accept the evil in the good : and while this is charitable , it does not make for powerful story . |
| 8 | And even that did not make for encouraging listening . |
| 9 | Having read a lot of books does not make for good rock'n'roll lyrics — you end up with a band like XTC ; you might like them , sure , but that does n't make them rock'n'roll . |
| 10 | Theories do not make for liberating music . |
| 11 | The disconcerting ‘ first-disk ’ string sound may be down to miking difficulties ; likewise the booming timpani and overly forward woodwind , and these things do not make for comfortable listening . |
| 12 | It does not make for comfortable listening if one spends the First Act jumping up and down to raise the volume a notch , and the Third , mindful of the neighbours , turning it down again . |
| 13 | Before the Prime Minister answers , let me repeat that a Member must ask questions about matters for which the Prime Minister is responsible ; he can not answer for Labour party policies . |
| 14 | Excellent technology will not compensate for poor science . |
| 15 | And King Henry , alone in his chamber , held his head between his hands for fear it should burst with anger and chagrin , and something else which he did not or would not recognise for pure hatred . |
| 16 | ‘ If such an incentive is not available , teachers will not opt for premature retirement , ’ UTU said , ‘ And the result could be a dramatic increase in the number of compulsory redundancies , particularly among younger teachers . |
| 17 | As the eminent nursing historian Monica E. Baly points out , in the nineteenth century sense nursing did not qualify for professional status : ‘ … nurses were not independent practitioners and indeed , the insistence on obedience was anti-ethical to independence and self-sufficiency ’ . |
| 18 | At the second Special General Meeting held at Keele University on September 12th , the proposal to create a register of Dormant Members for members who cease active participation of funeral or embalming work but do not qualify for Retired Membership status was rejected . |
| 19 | This was drawn up on account of the difficulty which the negotiators at The Hague had in agreeing whether or not irregular forces in occupied territory might or might not qualify for combatant status , but its words have a wider relevance : |
| 20 | The Civil Justice Review , on examining the arguments , recognised the need to assist people who do not qualify for legal aid funding , drew attention to the major advances that had been made in regulation policy so as probably to be able to control a contingency fee system and , on the basis of competition policy , considered whether it would be more desirable to devise more limited schemes under which lawyers would have a stake in the outcome of a case as an incentive . |
| 21 | The income eligibility limit ( above which a person does not qualify for legal aid ) in fact remains unchanged at £6,800 for a non-reparation case and £7,500 for a reparation case . |
| 22 | Age-related widows ' pension is for younger widows , who do not qualify for full rate . |
| 23 | They did not wait for blind Pew , who tried to follow them , tapping wildly with his stick . |
| 24 | So , where neo-Marxists argue that the revolutionary forces in the Third World need not wait for Western-style capitalism in order to produce successful communist revolution , mode of production theorists maintain the orthodox Marxist thesis that communism can only come about when the organized working class , the proletariat , destroys the class power of the bourgeoisie through an anti-capitalist revolution . |
| 25 | Yet the primal mother is no longer with us , least of all in modern industrial societies where regimes of child-rearing , although perhaps permissive , can not provide for total maternal-dependency throughout life . |
| 26 | De Klerk insisted that such a system would not provide for preferential treatment for any group at the expense of any other . |
| 27 | In the event , therefore , the Act did not provide for large-scale planning and redevelopment , but stimulated further direction towards slum clearance by extending new forms of subsidy directed to the rehousing of overcrowded families . |
| 28 | The principal weakness of the rescission remedy and the statutory alternative of damages in lieu of rescission , is that they do not provide for consequential loss , for example , profits on resale . |
| 29 | they do not provide for flexible combination as is demanded by highly specific subjects ; |
| 30 | According to the functionalist , then , to explain the existence of a social institution we must not look for purposive intention on the part of individuals but , rather , we should investigate the fact that the social system as a whole requires its needs to be satisfied . |